Colorado Code
Part 1 - Hours of Voting, Registration, Oaths, and Assistance to Vote
§ 1-7-108. Requirements of Watchers

(1) Watchers shall take an oath administered by one of the election judges that they are eligible electors, that their name has been submitted to the designated election official as a watcher for this election, and that they will not in any manner make known to anyone the result of counting votes until the polls have closed.
(2) Neither candidates nor members of their immediate families by blood, marriage, or civil union to the second degree may be poll watchers for that candidate.
(3) Each watcher shall have the right to maintain a list of eligible electors who have voted, to witness and verify each step in the conduct of the election from prior to the opening of the polls through the completion of the count and announcement of the results, to challenge ineligible electors, and to assist in the correction of discrepancies.
Source: L. 92: Entire article R&RE, p. 734, § 9, effective January 1, 1993. L. 93: (1) amended, p. 1417, § 66, effective July 1. L. 2013: (2) amended, (HB 13-1303), ch. 185, p. 719, § 62, effective May 10.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 1-7-105 as it existed prior to 1992.
Cross references: In 2013, subsection (2) was amended by the "Voter Access and Modernized Elections Act". For the short title and the legislative declaration, see sections 1 and 2 of chapter 185, Session Laws of Colorado 2013.

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