For a mail ballot election conducted after March 30, 2018, under the Colorado Municipal Election Code of 1965, the bill: • Requires election judges to compare a municipal elector's signature on a mail ballot return envelope self-affirmation with one of the elector's digitized signatures stored in the statewide voter registration system, commonly referred to as SCORE; • Grants municipal clerks access to SCORE for signature verification purposes; • Authorizes the use of signature verification devices to perform these comparisons; • Describes the procedures for clerks and election judges to follow based on the outcomes of such comparisons; and • Requires municipal clerks to provide training to election judges who compare signatures.
Year
2016
Current status
- Governor Signed (04/22/2016)