§ C.R.S. § 1-4-702Nominations of candidates for general election by convention

(1)
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a political party may choose to change from the
nomination of candidates by primary election to the nomination of candidates by assembly or
convention for all offices including, but not limited to, united states senator, representative in
congress, all elective state, district, and county officers, and members of the general assembly if
at least three-fourths of the total membership of the party's state central committee votes to use
the assembly or convention nomination process; except that nominations by major political
parties for candidates for lieutenant governor shall be made by the party's candidate for governor
pursuant to section 1-4-502 (3). Such vote of the party central committee shall occur no later
than October 1 of the year preceding the year in which an assembly or convention nominating
process is to be used.
(2) A political party nominating candidates by party assembly or convention shall
nominate the candidates of the party and make such nominations public not later than seventyfive days before the general election.
(3) Whichever method of candidate selection is chosen by a major political party as
between primary election, assembly or convention, all of the candidates for that party at any
level of office in that election year must be selected by such method, except that the
requirements of this provision shall not apply to a primary for president of the united states if
such an election is held.
Proposition 108 at the general election held November 8, 2016, was as follows:
FOR: 1,398,577
AGAINST: 1,227,117
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Cross references: For the declaration of the people of Colorado in Proposition 108, see
section 1 on p. 2822, Session Laws of Colorado 2017.
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