Colorado Code
Part 7 - Offenses - Conduct of Elections
§ 1-13-707. Inducing Defective Ballot

Any person who causes any deceit to be practiced with intent to fraudulently induce a voter to deposit a defective ballot so as to have the ballot thrown out and not counted upon conviction shall be punished as provided in section 1-13-111.
Source: L. 80: Entire article R&RE, p. 434, § 1, effective January 1, 1981. L. 2021: Entire section amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3128, § 29, effective March 1, 2022.
Editor's note: (1) This section is similar to former § 1-13-133 as it 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

Colorado Code

Title 1 - Elections

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

§ 1-13-708.5. Elected Officials Not to Handle Electronic or Electromechanical Voting Equipment or Devices

§ 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

§ 1-13-713. Intimidation

§ 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