If you received your ballot in the mail — the Colorado Legislature approved all-mail elections in 2013 — you should also have gotten the Blue Book, a comprehensive guide to all the statewide measures on the Colorado ballot. To save time, we've compiled our coverage of those measures as well as Denver-specific votes. That and some reading should be enough to finish your ballot.
Done? Keep reading to find out what to do:
Where to turn in your ballot
Don't drop that ballot in the mail; the time has passed for that. Instead, you can drop it in any of the drop boxes authorized by the Colorado Secretary of State or at an in-person voting center. Denver has a list of drop boxes and voting centers:The Colorado Secretary of State's Office also has an interactive map of Colorado voting centers.
You have until 7 p.m. today, November 5, to drop off your ballot in a box or at a center.
If you can't find your ballot ...
If you know that you're registered but didn't get your ballot (or lost it), you can request a replacement from your county clerk; the contact information for each county clerk's office is available at coloradosos.gov. At this point, it's too late to wait for the replacement to show up in the mail, so you should go to an in-person voting center to get a ballot.
Voting centers are now open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.; find your nearest location at coloradosos.gov. As long as you're in line by 7 p.m. on November 5, your vote will be counted.
If you're not even registered...
Colorado has some of the most lenient rules for registration in the country; you can register to vote up until 7 p.m. on Election Day, November 5, at an official state voting center. To be eligible to register to vote in the state, you must have lived in Colorado for at least 22 days before the election, be a United States citizen and at least sixteen years of age (though you have to be eighteen to vote).All you need to do is bring your Colorado driver’s license, Colorado ID card, Social Security number, passport or one of the other accepted forms of identification to a voting center...and then be prepared to wait in line.
But you might be in luck: Colorado uses automatic voter registration, so eligible residents are automatically registered to vote when they apply for or renew their driver’s license. That could cut out a few minutes when you get to the voting center: You may already be registered!
There are 365 voting centers and 433 drop boxes across the state. To check locations, hours and more, go to GoVoteColorado.gov.
Check your voter registration status at coloradosos.gov. And track your ballot with Colorado Ballottrax.
