Article VII. Suffrage and Elections

Article VII, Section 10. Disfranchisement during imprisonment

Constitution of the State of Colorado

Official text

No person while confined in any public prison shall be entitled to vote; but every such person who was a qualified elector prior to such imprisonment, and who is released therefrom by virtue of a pardon, or by virtue of having served out his full term of imprisonment, shall without further action, be invested with all the rights of citizenship, except as otherwise provided in this constitution.

Source: Entire article added, effective August 1, 1876, see L. 1877, p. 53.

Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2024, Constitution (Colorado Office of Legislative Legal Services)

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