Know the Law! Can I Vote?

Visit Go Vote Colorado to:

– Register to vote
– Update your information
– Change party affiliation or choose your primary ballot
– Check your ballot status
– Find your polling location

Visit the Colorado Secretary of State website for more details about contacting your county clerk, acceptable forms of ID, accessibility for voters with a disability, and information for homeless voters.

Have additional questions? Contact CCJRC at (303) 825-0122 or email Jasmine Ross, Civic Engagement Coordinator.

No. You may not register to vote or vote if you are serving a sentence in jail or prison for a felony conviction. If you are transitioning from a DOC facility and are living in a halfway house you CANNOT vote, even if you have completed the residential phase and are on non-residential status. You cannot vote until you are actually on parole.

If you were sentenced by the court to serve your sentence in a halfway house (i.e. diversion client) then you can vote whether you are living in the halfway house or on non-residential status.

Yes. People on probation, parole, or federally supervised release may register to vote and cast their vote in any election.

Yes. An individual in jail serving a misdemeanor sentence has the right to register to vote and vote in any election.

Yes. People who are in jail pending the outcome of a criminal case are eligible to vote.

Yes. You are eligible to vote if you are on bond as long as you are not convicted and serving a sentence in jail or prison for a felony at the time of the election.

No. No one will tell you when you’re eligible to vote.

Voting eligibility is based on Colorado state law. It does not matter what state you were convicted in or whether you were convicted in municipal, state or federal court.

No. Payment of restitution is not a condition of voting eligibility.

Yes. If you were registered to vote pror to your incarceration, there is a good chance that your name was removed from the Secretary of State’s list of registered voters. You will need to re-register to vote.

It is a class five felony crime to register to vote or vote in an election for which a person is not legally eligible. (Colorado Revised Statute §1-13-704.5)

The state Legislature passed a law that allows people on parole to register to vote and vote effective July 1, 2019.

The new law states:

No person while serving a sentence of detention or confinement in a correctional facility, jail, or other location for a felony conviction is eligible to register to vote or to vote in any election. A confined prisoner who is awaiting trial but has not been tried or who is not serving a sentence for a felony conviction shall be certified by the institutional administrator, may register to vote pursuant to this article 2, and may list his or her confinement location as his or her ballot address in accordance with section 1-2-204 (2)(f.3).

Definitions:
(a) “Term of imprisonment” or “full term of imprisonment” means the period during which an individual is serving a sentence of detention or confinement in any correctional facility, jail, or other location for a felony conviction.
(b) This subsection (49.3) applies to this code for the purpose of applying section 10 of Article VII of the State Constitution.
(c) “Term of imprisonment” or “full term of imprisonment” does not include the period during which an individual is on parole.

An individual serving a sentence of parole is eligible to register to vote and to vote in any election.