Voter Information

Voter Eligibility

In order to vote in the State of Colorado:

• You must be 18 years of age or older at the time of elections
• You must be a Colorado resident for at least 30 days
• You must not currently be serving a sentence or under parole for a felony

Register to Vote

You will need to register to vote if you have never registered before or if you have moved. You can download a Voter Registration Form here. You will now require identification.

When Registering In Person (Number Only)

• Colorado Driver's License #; or
• Department of Revenue #; or
• Last 4 Digits of Social Security #.

ID Needed When Registering By Mail (Copy)

• Colorado Driver's License; or
• Dept of Revenue ID Card; or
• US Passport; or
• Government Employee ID with Photo; or
• Pilots License by FAA or other authorized agency; or
• Military ID with Photo; or
• Medicare / Medicaid Card; or
• Certified Copy US Birth Certificate; or
• Certified Copy Naturalization Documents

Or You Can Provide (Number Only)

• Colorado Driver's License #; or
• Department of Revenue #; or
• Last 4 Digits of Social Security #.

Request Absentee Ballot

If your busy schedule, age, infirmity, or disability makes it difficult for you to get to physical polling places you may want to consider voting in the convenience of your own home. You can request an Absentee Ballot here.

Finding Your Polling (Voting) Place

Your voting place will be determined by your residential address (or your precinct number, if you know it). You should check with your county clerk and recorder's office in order to determine where you vote.

ID Needed to Vote in Person

When you show up at the poll you will need one of the following forms of identification with you:

• Colorado Driver's License; or
• Dept of Revenue ID Card; or
• US Passport; or
• Government Employee ID with Photo; or
• Pilots License by FAA or other authorized agency; or
• Military ID with Photo; or
• Medicare / Medicaid Card; or
• Certified Copy US Birth Certificate; or
• Certified Copy Naturalization Documents

ID Needed to Vote By Mail

You will need to provide a copy of one of the following forms of identification if you are voting by mail:

• Colorado Driver's License; or
• Dept of Revenue ID Card; or
• US Passport; or
• Government Employee ID with Photo; or
• Pilots License by FAA or other authorized agency; or
• Military ID with Photo; or
• Medicare / Medicaid Card; or
• Certified Copy US Birth Certificate; or
• Certified Copy Naturalization Documents

You Can Vote In Honor of a Veteran

If there is a special veteran in your life that you wish to honor through your civic act of voting you may do so by clicking here.



The right to vote is the single most important right in a Democracy.  Many brave heroes fight, died, were beaten or jailed for trying to guarantee universal suffrage for all Americans over the age of 18.

 

• Only 72% of those eligible to vote in the U.S. are registered to vote.
• Only 63% of of those eligible to vote did so in 2004.

"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."  ~Bill Vaughan

"People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people.  Of course, that is not true.  Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing." ~Walter H. Judd

"The most important political office is that of the private citizen. " ~Louis Brandeis

"A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation."  ~James Freeman Clarke, Sermon

"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor." ~James Russell Lowell

"Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual--or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country. " - Samuel Adams

"A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law. " - Alexander Hamilton

"Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights. " -- Thomas Jefferson

• Black Americans & Latinos did not have the right to vote until passage of the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1870.
• Colorado was the first state to pass women's suffrage for state elections in 1873.
• In practice many American Blacks  and Latinos did not have the right to vote until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 because many states states tolerated racial harassment, intimidation, used poll taxes, violence, "literacy tests" or other barriers to the ballot box to block voting.
• Women did not have the right to vote in national elections until 1920 when the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution was adopted.
• Native Americans were not "granted citizenship" until 1924 and many states continued to prohibit Native Americans from voting until the Civil Rights Act of 1965.
• Voting Accommodations for Americans with Disabilities were not protected under law until the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

THANK YOU FOR DOING YOUR PART IN PARTICIPATING IN DEMOCRACY!

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