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Did all-mail ballot elections in Colorado start while Jared Polis was governor?
The law also continued to require counties to accommodate early in-person voting and on election day, shortened state residency requirements for voter registration to 22 days from 30 days, allowed for same-day registration and voting on election days and eliminated assigned polling places, replacing them with more accessible county voter service and polling centers.
Seven other states and the District of Columbia allow all elections to be conducted by mail including California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Washington. Nebraska and North Dakota, meanwhile, allow counties to opt into conducting elections by mail. Thirteen other states allow mail elections in more limited forms.
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Sources
- National Conference of State Legislatures Table 18: States with mostly-mail elections
- Pew Colorado Voting Reforms: Early Results
- Colorado General Assembly House Bill 13-1303
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