Automatic voter registration
Online voter registration
Pre-registration before turning 18
Number of days prior to election a voter must be registered is 15 days or less
Online voter registration closes 15 days or less before Election Day
Registration drives
Same day registration offered in all elections
Same day registration located at polling place
Same day registration offered only during early voting
All mail voting
In-person early voting
Amount of early voting days is higher than 7
Election day is a state holiday
No-excuse mail voting
12+ hours of open polls
Paid time off work to vote
Time off work to vote
Felons can vote after incarceration with completion of sentence
Felons can vote immediately after incarceration
Felons can vote while incarcerated
No ID required to vote
Mental competency not required to register
Non-photo ID required to vote
Photo-ID required to vote
Upcoming Elections
Voting Qualifications
Deadlines
More Information
In a Primary Election, unaffiliated voters may cast a ballot for any on political party. If an unaffiliated voter returns a ballot with more than one political party, the ballot will be rejected and none of the votes will be counted. Voters affiliated with a major party are to cast a ballot for candidates of the party they are affiliated with.
All registered Colorado voters receive mail ballots. You only need to apply for an absentee ballot if you need your ballot mailed someplace other than your usual address.
All voters who vote at the polls must provide identification. If you are voting by mail for the first time, you may also need to provide a photocopy of your identification when you return your mail ballot.
Valid forms of ID include:
- Colorado driver’s license or valid ID card issued by the Colorado Department of Revenue
- A US passport
- An employee ID card with a photograph issued by any branch, department, agency, or entity of the US government or of Colorado, or by any county, municipality, board, authority, or other political subdivision of Colorado
- A pilot’s license issued by the federal aviation administration or other authorized agency of the US
- A US military ID card with a photograph
- A copy of a current (within the last 60 days) utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other government document that shows your current name and address
- A Medicare or Medicaid card
- A certified copy of a US birth certificate
- Certified documentation of naturalization
- A student ID card with a photograph issued by an institute of higher education in Colorado
- A veteran ID card with photo
- An ID card issued by a federally recognized tribal government certifying tribal membership
