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A. The City Clerk shall certify the list of candidates for Mayor, City Council and ballot questions at least sixty one (61) days before the election to the City Council.
B. When applicable, the City Clerk shall certify the list of candidates for Mayor, City Council and ballot questions to the County Clerk at least sixty one (61) days before the election.
C. The City Clerk shall cause a notice of election to be published in a newspaper of general circulation at least twenty five (25) days before the election. The election notice shall include the certified list of candidates for Mayor and City Council, ballot questions and the time and date of election.
D. This section shall supersede all provisions of the Colorado Municipal Election Code relating to certification of ballot and publication of notice of election. (Ord. 4493; 1968 Code §4-12; Ord. 83-153; Ord. 00-175; Ord. 01-42; Ord. 02-212; Ord. 04-290; Ord. 16-102)
A. Any person may file an affidavit or complaint stating the name of any person who has violated any of the provisions of this chapter or of the Colorado Municipal Election Code and stating the facts which constitute the alleged offense with the City Attorney. Upon the filing of an affidavit, the City Attorney shall investigate, and if reasonable grounds are found, the City Attorney shall prosecute the violation in the Municipal Court in the same manner as other ordinance violations.
B. The District Attorney and the Attorney General of the State of Colorado shall have equal power with the City Attorney to file information or complaints against any person for violating a provision of the Colorado Municipal Election Code 1 .
C. Any person who violates any provision of this chapter or of the Colorado Municipal Election Code and who is prosecuted and convicted in the Municipal Court shall be punished as provided in section 1.1.201 of this Code. (Ord. 4493; 1968 Code §4-11; Ord. 00-175; Ord. 01-42; Ord. 02-212; Ord. 04-290; Ord. 16-102)
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| 1 | 1. CRS §31-10-1501 et seq. |
A. At any general municipal election 1 commencing with the April 2011 general municipal election, if no candidate for the office of Mayor receives a majority of the votes cast for Mayor as required by City Charter subsection 2-10(a)(1), a Mayoral runoff election shall be held on the third Tuesday in May following the general municipal election.
B. The Mayoral runoff election shall be conducted as a mail ballot, except:
1. Electors eligible to vote in the runoff election shall be those eligible to vote under State law.
2. The ballot shall only consist of the two (2) Mayoral candidates receiving the highest number of votes in the general municipal election. No other issues or questions shall be referred to the Mayoral runoff election ballot.
3. Publication of an election notice shall be on or before the tenth day before the election.
C. If a Mayoral runoff election is required, the names of the two (2) candidates for the Office of Mayor receiving the highest number of votes in the general municipal election shall appear on the ballot as the runoff candidates for Mayor.
D. In the event of a tie vote for candidates having the second highest number of votes in the general municipal election, a selection shall be made by lot so that there will only be two (2) eligible candidates for the runoff election.
E. The ballot order of the runoff Mayoral candidate names shall be determined by lot at a time and date designated by the City Clerk.
F. At seven o'clock (7:00) P.M. on the Mayoral runoff election day, results shall be tabulated; however, the ballot procedures identified in subsections 5.1.120C, 5.1.121C and E of this part shall apply to the Mayoral runoff election. Upon completion of the ballot procedures identified in subsections 5.1.120C, 5.1.121C and E of this part, results shall be tabulated. The Canvass Board shall complete the official abstract of votes cast and certification within twelve (12) days after the runoff election. The runoff candidate receiving a majority of votes cast for the Office of Mayor shall be declared elected and entitled to a certificate of election. A "majority" shall be more than fifty percent (50%) of the votes cast for Mayor at a Mayoral runoff election.
G. In the event of a tie vote in the runoff election, a second runoff election shall be held under the same procedure as the first runoff election, the date of which shall be set by the City Council, and this procedure shall be repeated until one runoff candidate receives a majority of the votes cast for Mayor.
H. In the event of the death, disqualification or withdrawal of either of the two (2) runoff Mayoral candidates prior to the conduct of the runoff or subsequent elections, the name of the candidate who received the third greatest number of votes for the Office of Mayor in the general municipal election shall be substituted and shall appear on the runoff election ballot. In any such event, notice of any substitution of a runoff Mayoral candidate shall be publicly noticed. (Ord. 10-105; Ord. 16-102)
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| 1 | 2. See City Charter section 11-20. |
The City Council hereby delegates to the City Clerk the authority and responsibility to appoint election judges, student election judges and alternates at least fifteen (15) days before each election 1 . The City Clerk may appoint additional election judges during the election when the City Clerk determines such appointment is necessary. The election judges and their alternates shall be electors registered to vote in Colorado and shall be at least eighteen (18) years of age, except for student election judges authorized by the City Clerk and qualified as set forth in Colorado Revised Statutes section 1-6-101 et seq. An election judge shall not be a candidate, a family member of the candidate by blood, marriage or civil union in the second degree. (Ord. 16-102)
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| 1 | 2. CRS §31-10-401. |
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