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Where to vote
Find your polling placeEnter your residential address to find drop boxes and voter service and polling centers near you. You may vote at any voter service and polling center in your county.Read October 26, 2026 from Colorado Secretary of State.
Registered at home but living somewhere else?What Colorado says to do when the address you are registered at is not the address you live at.
We have not confirmed Colorado’s rule for this from an official source yet, so we are not printing one. Check which address you are registered at, then ask that county election office what to do.
All the datesRegistering online, by mail and in person, checking your registration, your polling place, and when polls close in Colorado.
Register by
Checking. Colorado lets you register in person through Election Day, but to get a ballot in the mail you must register online or by mail by the 8th day before Election Day. We are confirming the printed 2026 date before we show a headline deadline. Ask your state election office.
Register online
Checking. Colorado says to register online through the 8th day before Election Day to receive your ballot by mail. The state calendar prints that day as "26-October", which we are confirming in a readable form before we print it. Ask your state election office.
Register by mail
Checking. Colorado accepts mailed applications through the 8th day before Election Day, but its page does not say whether that means postmarked or received, so we are checking. Ask your state election office.
Register in person
You can register in person at a voter service and polling center in your county through Election Day, November 3, 2026, and vote there.
Facts · Read Oct 26Register and vote the same day
Check you are registered
The state links this as "Find my registration" on GoVoteColorado.
Facts · Read Oct 26Early, in person
Checking. Colorado opens voter service and polling centers at least 15 days before Election Day and through Election Day. The state calendar prints the start as "19-October", which we are confirming in a readable form before we print the window. Ask your state election office.
Find your polling place
Enter your residential address to find drop boxes and voter service and polling centers near you. You may vote at any voter service and polling center in your county.
Facts · Read Oct 26What to bringThe ID Colorado accepts, and what to do if you do not have one.
ID your state accepts
- A valid Colorado driver's license or valid identification card issued by the Colorado Department of Revenue
- A valid U.S. passport or passport card
- A valid employee identification card with a photograph of the eligible elector issued by any branch, department, agency, or entity of the U.S. government or of Colorado, or by any county, municipality, board, authority, or other political subdivision of Colorado
- A valid pilot's license issued by the federal aviation administration or other authorized agency of the U.S.
- A valid U.S. military identification card with a photograph of the eligible elector
- A copy of a current (within the last 60 days) utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other government document that shows the name and address of the elector
- A Certificate of Degree of Indian or Alaskan Native Blood
- A valid Medicare or Medicaid card issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- A certified copy of a U.S. birth certificate for the elector
- Certified documentation of naturalization
- A valid student identification card with a photograph of the eligible elector issued by an institute of higher education in Colorado
- A valid veteran identification card issued by the U.S. department of veterans affairs veterans health administration with a photograph of the eligible elector
- A valid identification card issued by a federally recognized tribal government certifying tribal membership
- A division of youth services identification card issued by the Colorado Department of Human Services
Any ID that shows an address must show a Colorado address. IDs may be shown in digital form. First-time mail voters may need to include a copy of an ID with their ballot.
Facts · Read Oct 26If you do not have one
Carry a second document
Checking. Colorado counts documents such as a utility bill as ID in their own right, so there may be nothing separate to print here. We are confirming before we say so. Ask your state election office.
Make the plan
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Roll Call
Lock your date, bring your people, and see how your side is doing.
Who runs your election
The Colorado Secretary of State administers elections in Colorado. Your county or parish election office runs the polling places, counts the ballots, and answers questions about your own ballot. They are the people to call, and the ones whose answer is final.
Statewide offices are the ones every voter in Colorado votes on, and every ballot counts the same from any precinct in the state. District seats are drawn on a map, so where you live decides which of those you vote on.
Some years a ballot also asks voters to change the rules of voting itself. Those questions tend to cover:
- what counts as ID at the polls or with a mail ballot
- how early voting and mail voting work, and by when
- how districts get drawn and who draws them
- how the election office itself is run and funded
We do not tell you what is on your ballot or what to make of it. Your sample ballot carries the official wording, written by the state. Read it at the Colorado Secretary of State.
Mail, honestlyVoting by mail works. It also has rules, and the rules are where ballots get lost.
Your dates are above: when to ask for the ballot, when it has to be back, what happens if a signature is questioned.
- Sign exactly the way you signed when you registered.
- Send it back early, not on the last day.
- Would rather not trust the mail? Check the early in-person window above and go in person.
Ask for your ballot by
The ballot goes to the mailing address on your voter registration. If yours is lost or damaged, you may request a replacement from your county clerk.
Facts · Read Oct 26It has to be back by
Received, not postmarked, by 7:00 p.m. on Election Day, November 3, 2026. Postmarks do not count. Drop boxes are open 24 hours a day.
Facts · Read Oct 26Track your ballot
Sign up for BallotTrax to follow your ballot from sent to counted.
Facts · Read Oct 26If your signature is questioned
The state's voter page also links a "Cure my ballot" tool at myballot.coloradosos.gov.
Facts · Read Oct 26The lineIf the line is long, that is not a reason to leave. It is a reason to stay.
Bring water. Bring a charger. Bring a chair if you can carry one, a book, and a friend. Check your bag rules with your county first. If you are in line when the polls close, stay in line: your state decides what happens next, and every state page here prints its own rule in its own words.
- Water
- A charger
- A chair if you can
- Something to read
- A friend
If you are in line when polls close in Colorado
Time off to vote
Checking. We have not found the Colorado Secretary of State stating a time off to vote rule on a voter page, so we print nothing yet. Ask your state election office.
Your rightsA provisional ballot, help if you need it, and the number to call from the line.
You can vote a provisional ballot
If your name is not on the list, or you do not have what they ask for, ask for a provisional ballot. In a federal election you have the right to cast one. Ask what you must do afterwards for it to count, and write it down.
You can bring someone to help
You can bring a person of your choice to help you vote, with limits your state sets on who it cannot be. Ask the poll worker for the rule in writing.
Language and disability assistance
Polling places must be accessible, and many places must provide help in other languages. Ask for the accessible machine, the curbside option, or the language help you need.
If someone tries to move you off your vote
Questions about your citizenship, a crowd following you in, someone filming you at the door, a person telling you that you cannot vote: none of that decides your vote. Do not leave the line. Call the hotline from where you stand.
Sources: the Colorado Secretary of State, and the Election Protection coalition for the hotlines below.
Call from the line
If anyone tells you that you cannot vote, or you are turned away, or something feels wrong: do not leave. Call.
- 866-OUR-VOTE866-687-8683 · English
- 888-VE-Y-VOTA888-839-8682 · Spanish and English
- 888-API-VOTE888-274-8683 · Asian languages and English
- 844-YALLA-US844-925-5287 · Arabic and English
Election Protection, administered by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Numbers confirmed against their own site on September 19, 2026.
Your state election office is the final word. We print what its own pages say, with the date we read them.
A few of Colorado’s details are still being confirmed with its election office. Those are marked Checking and link straight to the state.
Read on October 26, 2026 from your state election office, checked by AI against the Colorado Secretary of State pages. Colorado Secretary of State is the final word. See something wrong? Report it.