2022 Colorado Code
Title 1 - Elections
Article 12 - Recall and Vacancies in Office
Part 1 - Recall From Office
§ 1-12-112. Ballots - Statement Included
(1) In addition to all other requirements of law, the official ballot must contain the statement described in section 1-12-103 stating the grounds for demanding the officer's recall. The officer sought to be recalled may submit to the designated election official a statement of three hundred words or fewer justifying the officer's course of conduct. The officer shall not include any profane or false statements in the statement of justification. The officer shall submit the statement no later than ten days after the statement of sufficiency has been submitted or created. The official ballot must contain the statement of justification if submitted pursuant to this subsection (1).
(2) Ballots for the election of a successor to the officer sought to be recalled must contain the candidates' names, which must be placed on the ballot by lot.
(3) The official ballot for the election of a successor to the officer sought to be recalled shall contain a blank space in which the elector may write the name of a write-in candidate who has timely filed an affidavit of intent in accordance with section 1-12-115.
Source: L. 92: Entire article R&RE, p. 796, § 15, effective January 1, 1993. L. 97: (1) amended, p. 1063, § 7, effective May 27. L. 2012: (1) amended and (3) added, (HB 12-1293), ch. 236, p. 1045, § 12, effective May 29. L. 2021: (1) and (2) amended, (SB 21-250), ch. 282, p. 1663, § 59, effective June 21.
Editor's note: Section 85 of chapter 282 (SB 21-250), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section applies to elections conducted on or after June 21, 2021.
