A guide for Colorado voters
Your Vote.
A Colorado Story.
How Colorado built its election system, how every ballot is protected, and what voters need to know now.
Maroon Bells, Colorado · Photo: Chris Abney · CC0 · Cropped.
How Colorado
Got Here
Follow the decisions, voter choices, and safeguards that shaped Colorado’s election system.
How Colorado
Secures Your Vote
See how paper ballots, bipartisan teams, documented controls, reconciliation, and audits work together.
Vote With Confidence
in 2026
Find key dates, return options, ballot tracking, voter assistance, and what happens after Election Night.
Colorado voters support the system and give local officials strong marks
A 2024 statewide exit poll found broad satisfaction with Colorado's mailed-ballot, drop-box, and vote-center system. It also found that nearly three in four voters gave the election officials where they live an A or B. Review the poll findings.
2026 General Election
Tuesday, November 3
Ballots must be received by 7 p.m. Postmarks do not count.