(1) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (1) is effective March 1, 2022. ] Any person who mutilates or erases any name, figure, or word in any registration list or pollbook; or who removes a registration list or pollbook or any part thereof from the place where it has been deposited with an intention to destroy the same, or to procure or prevent the election of any person, or to prevent any voter from voting; or who destroys any registration list or pollbook or part thereof commits a class 1 misdemeanor.
(2) Any person who knowingly accesses without authorization the statewide voter registration system commits a class 6 felony and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-401, C.R.S.
Source: L. 80: Entire article R&RE, p. 433, § 1, effective January 1, 1981. L. 2016: Entire section amended, (SB 16-142), ch. 173, p. 588, § 70, effective May 18. L. 2021: (1) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3127, § 25, effective March 1, 2022.
Editor's note: (1) This section is similar to former §§ 1-13-131 and 1-30-129 as they existed prior to 1980.
(2) Section 803(2) of chapter 462 (SB 21-271), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section applies to offenses committed on or after March 1, 2022.
Structure Colorado Code
Article 13 - Election Offenses
Part 7 - Offenses - Conduct of Elections
§ 1-13-701. Interference With Election Official
§ 1-13-702. Interfering With Watcher
§ 1-13-703. Tampering With Statewide Voter Registration System, Registration List, or Pollbook
§ 1-13-704. Unlawfully Refusing Ballot or Permitting to Vote
§ 1-13-704.5. Voting by Persons Not Entitled to Vote - Penalty
§ 1-13-705. Personating Elector
§ 1-13-706. Delivering and Receiving Ballots at Polls
§ 1-13-707. Inducing Defective Ballot
§ 1-13-707.5. Tampering With Ballot Box
§ 1-13-708. Tampering With Voting Equipment
§ 1-13-709. Voting in Wrong Polling Location
§ 1-13-709.5. Residence - False Information - Penalty
§ 1-13-709.6. Residence - Conspiring to Give False Information - Penalty
§ 1-13-710. Voting Twice - Penalty
§ 1-13-711. Interference With Voter While Voting
§ 1-13-712. Disclosing or Identifying Vote
§ 1-13-714. Electioneering - Removing and Return of Ballot - Definition
§ 1-13-715. Liquor in or Near Voter Service and Polling Center
§ 1-13-716. Destroying, Removing, or Delaying Delivery of Election Records
§ 1-13-717. Penalty for Destruction of Supplies
§ 1-13-718. Release of Information Concerning Count
§ 1-13-719. Employer's Unlawful Acts
§ 1-13-720. Unlawfully Giving or Promising Money or Employment or Facilitating the Trading of Votes
§ 1-13-721. Receipt of Money or Jobs
§ 1-13-723. Penalty for Neglect of Duty - Destruction of Ballots - Breaking Seal