Voter FAQ - Your Questions Matter
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- Citizen of the United States
- Has been a resident of the state of Colorado for at least 22 days
- Is at least 16 years old and understands that they must be 18 years old to be eligible to vote.
- Either provides a valid Colorado Driver’s License or Colorado ID card OR presents one of the acceptable forms of identification for voting.
- Download and print a voter registration application and mail it in to Delta County Clerk and Recorders Office, 501 Palmer St. Ste. 211, Delta, CO 81416
- Register through a Driver’s License Examination Facility
- Register through a Voter Registration Drive (VRD)
- Register online
- Delta County Clerk and Recorder’s Office, Election Department
- Delta County Annex building in Hotchkiss
- Any Town Hall
- Any State office, including Driver’s License Offices
- All active registered voters will receive their ballot by mail. You may return your ballot by mail or drop off your ballot at the following locations:
- 24-Hour Drop Off Locations (available immediately after ballots are mailed)
- Delta County Clerk and Recorder’s Office, 501 Palmer St., Delta, CO 81416
- North Fork Annex Clerk’s Office, 196 W. Hotchkiss Ave., Hotchkiss, CO 81419
- Cedaredge Library, 180 SW 6th Ave., Cedaredge, CO 81413
- Paonia Town Hall, 214 Grand Ave., Paonia, CO 81428
- Orchard City Town Hall, 9661 2100 Road, Austin, CO 81410
Yes. Voter service center and polling locations are available for you to vote in person or on the handicap accessible voting equipment 15 days prior to the General Election and eight days prior to all other elections conducted by the County Clerk and Recorder Office. You may also request a replacement ballot or update your voter registration here as well.
- Delta County Clerk and Recorder’s Office
501 Palmer St., Ste. 211, Delta, CO 81416
Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday – Friday - North Fork Annex Clerk’s Office
196 W. Hotchkiss Ave., Hotchkiss, CO 81419
Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday & Monday before El
All voters must show an approved form of identification. If you forget your identification, you still have the right to vote with a provisional ballot.
See the list of acceptable forms of ID.
You may provide any of the following forms of identification at your precinct polling place or vote center:
- Valid Colorado driver’s license
- Valid Colorado ID card issued by the Colorado Department of Revenue
- Valid U.S. passport
- Valid ID card (with photo) issued by any agency of the federal, state, or local government
- Valid FAA pilot’s license
- Valid U.S. military ID card (with photo)
- Copy of a current utility bill, telephone bill, cable bill, bank statement, paycheck, government check, or any government document that shows the voter’s name and address
- Valid Medicare or Medicaid card
- Certified copy of a U.S. birth certificate
- Certified copy of naturalization documents
- Students may provide a document from their college or university which states at least the name, date of birth, and residential address of the student voter.
Not all forms of identification will display an address. However, any address displayed on your identification must be in Colorado. The address displayed on your identification does not have to match your current address.
If you forget your identification, you still have the right to vote with a provisional ballot. This ballot contains all the same candidates and issues as a regular ballot.
A provisional ballot is a paper ballot that contains all the same candidates and issues as a regular ballot. After you have voted on your provisional ballot, it’s placed in a secrecy envelope. You must sign the ballot envelope, as you would an absentee ballot. The oath on the ballot envelope can, in limited instances, serve as an “emergency registration.”
An election judge will ensure that you’ve signed your ballot envelope. If you fail to sign your ballot envelope, your County Clerk’s office will contact you after the election and ask you to appear to sign your provisional ballot envelope.
After the election, your provisional ballot will be checked to ensure that you’re registered to vote. If you are registered to vote, your ballot will be counted just as if you had voted in any other way.
The provisional ballot envelope serves as an affidavit. When you vote with a provisional ballot, you’re required to provide two pieces of information on your provisional ballot envelope:
- Your Colorado driver’s license number OR a Department of Revenue ID number
- Your entire Social Security number OR the last four digits of your Social Security number
If you don’t provide any of the above information, your ballot may not be counted! If you don’t provide any of this information, you still have the right to vote with a provisional ballot.
If you vote with a provisional ballot, your vote will not be counted until your County Clerk can verify that you’re registered to vote. Your County Clerk will match information on your provisional ballot to identifying information on the master voter registration list in your county.
This information includes the name of the voter and identifying information (such as the last four digits of the voter’s Social Security number, the voter’s driver’s license number, a Department of Revenue ID number, or a unique identifying number assigned at the time of the voter’s registration).
The information you provide on your provisional ballot envelope will help your County Clerk verify that you’re registered to vote. If the County Clerk cannot verify that you’re registered to vote, your vote will not be counted.
If you requested an absentee ballot that you never received or if you lost or spoiled your absentee ballot (by mis-marking it in any way), then you may obtain a replacement absentee ballot at your County Clerk’s office before 7:00 p.m. on Election Day, Tuesday, November 7. You may then vote with your replacement absentee ballot.
Click here to request your absentee ballot
Alternatively, you may go to your polling place and vote with a provisional ballot. At that time, you must affirm that you have not and will not vote again in the current election.
Be aware that your polling place may have changed. If you go to the wrong precinct, the election judge should inform you that you are at the wrong polling place. The election judge should assist you in finding your correct polling place.
If you don’t wish to go to your correct polling place, you’ll be given a provisional ballot and can vote it, but it will count ONLY for federal and statewide races. If you were sent to the wrong precinct by an election official, you should note that fact on your provisional ballot envelope. In that case, all of your votes for local races will count to the extent that you’re qualified to vote in the elections on the ballot you’re provided.
Visit Go Vote Colorado to check your status. Log in to your voter record, which will show you if your ballot has been prepared, sent or received. You may also make changes to your mailing address up to eight days prior to the election.
You may register to vote or make corrections to your voter record in person at the above Voter Service and Polling Centers up to and including Election Day.
If you have more questions about the status of your mail ballot, please contact the Election Department at 970-874-2153 or 970-874-5903.
Yes. You are not required to cast a vote in every race or on every question. If you choose to leave a race or a question blank, the rest of the votes on your ballot will still be counted.
Every valid mail ballot will be counted in this election. Be sure to sign the envelope when you return your mail ballot. (Ballots must be returned in the required return envelope with a signed affirmation to be counted.)
If you recently registered for the first time, you will need to provide a copy of your ID along with your mail ballot. Your county clerk will have provided instructions about the ID requirement along with your mail ballot.
Also, be sure that your County Clerk receives your ballot no later than 7:00 PM on Election Day. If you are not sure if your ballot will arrive in time, drop it off in person.
State law prohibits electioneering within 100 feet of the entrance to a polling place. This means that anyone who is advocating for the election or defeat of a candidate or a ballot issue must be at least 100 feet away from the entrance to the Voter Service and Polling Center.
Uniformed military personnel, their dependents and U.S. citizens living abroad, either temporarily or permanently, have the right to vote using their home state address or the last home address used in the case of permanent overseas citizens.
You may download and print a Federal Post Card Application or register online at Go Vote Colorado.
In 2016, voters passed Propositions 107 and 108, which allowed voters who are not members of any party (unaffiliated voters) to vote in primary elections. However, unaffiliated voters still cannot participate in precinct caucuses.
If you are unaffiliated, you will be allowed to vote in the primary election in June, but you will not be allowed to participate in either the Democratic or Republican caucuses this March.
If you are unaffiliated and have more questions, please refer to the frequently asked questions page regarding primary elections page available on the Colorado Secretary of State’s website. You may also contact our office at State.ElectionsDivision@sos.state.co.us or 303-894-2200 (extension 3).