Concerning the administration of elections, and, in connection therewith, creating the Colorado Voting Rights Act and making an appropriation.
The bill creates the Colorado Voting Rights Act (act) and modifies certain election-related statutes in 4 the following areas:
- Voter registration related to voters who are members of Indian tribes;
- Ensuring voter access to methods of selecting candidates for the general election;
- Election and voting notices in facilities serving individuals with disabilities;
- Election-related language access; and
- Election-related data collection.
Creation of the act. The bill creates the act, which prohibits political subdivisions from:
- Taking any action that results in , will result in, or is intended to result in a material disparity between electors who are members of a protected race, color, or language minority group or other minority reporting group (protected class members) and other eligible electors in regard to voter participation, access to voting opportunities, or the opportunity or ability to participate in the political process (voter suppression);
- Enacting or employing any method of election that has the effect of, or is motivated in part by the intention of, disparately impairing the opportunity or ability of protected class members to elect the candidates of their choice or otherwise influence the outcome of elections as a result of diluting the vote of protected class members (voter dilution);
- Implementing, imposing, or enforcing a voting qualification or another prerequisite to voting based on an individual's actual or perceived gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation ; or
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Implementing, imposing, or enforcing an additional voting qualification or another prerequisite to voting based on an individual's confinement to a local jail, other than those eligibility qualifications that already exist.
(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
