§ C.R.S. § 1-2-216Change of address

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(1) Any eligible elector who has moved within the state
may have his or her residence changed on the registration record by submitting a letter or form
furnished by the county clerk and recorder, either by mail, in person, or through the online voter
registration system established pursuant to section 1-2-202.5. The letter or form for the change
must include the elector's new residence address, mailing address if different from the residence
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address, old address, printed name, birth date, last four digits of the elector's social security
number, if the elector wishes to state them, and signature and the date.
(2) Any address change made on the same form or personal letter as a change or
withdrawal of affiliation or name change shall be accepted by the county clerk and recorder if
the form or personal letter is signed indicating that the elector intended to make the change or
withdrawal indicated on the form or in the personal letter.
(3) Any eligible elector who is unable to write may request assistance from the county
clerk and recorder, and the county clerk and recorder shall sign the form, witnessing the elector's
mark, or the elector may have his or her mark attested to by any other person on a prescribed
form or personal letter, if the request is not made at the office of the county clerk and recorder.
(4) (a) Any eligible elector may complete a change of address form stating, under
penalty of perjury, that the elector moved before the election and that, on the day of the election,
the elector will be living at the new address in the new precinct. Such change of address forms
must be submitted as follows:
(I) By appearing in-person at a voter service and polling center or clerk and recorder's
office in the county in which the elector resides, at any time during which the voter service and
polling center or office is open;
(II) By submitting, on or before the eighth day before an election, an electronic change
of address form through the online voter registration system established pursuant to section 1-2202.5; or
(III) By submitting by mail a change of address form that is received by the elector's
county clerk and recorder no later than the close of business on the eighth day before any
election.
(b) The election judges shall allow the registered elector to cast the ballot for their
current residence.
(c) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2013.)
(5) Repealed.
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Cross references: In 2013, subsections (1) and (4) were amended and subsection (5) was
repealed by the "Voter Access and Modernized Elections Act". For the short title and the
legislative declaration, see sections 1 and 2 of chapter 185, Session Laws of Colorado 2013.

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