(1) No later than 3 p.m. on the ninetieth day before the general election, a person who desires to be an unaffiliated candidate for the office of president or vice president of the United States who has not submitted a petition for nomination pursuant to section 1-4-802 shall submit to the secretary of state a notarized candidate's statement of intent together with a nonrefundable filing fee of one thousand dollars and shall include with the filing fee the names of registered electors who are thus nominated as presidential electors. The acceptance of each of the electors must be endorsed as appended to the first or last page of the filing fee.
(2) Notwithstanding the amount specified for the fee in subsection (1) of this section, the secretary of state by rule or as otherwise provided by law may reduce the amount of the fee if necessary pursuant to section 24-75-402 (3), C.R.S., to reduce the uncommitted reserves of the fund to which all or any portion of the fee is credited. After the uncommitted reserves of the fund are sufficiently reduced, the secretary of state by rule or as otherwise provided by law may increase the amount of the fee as provided in section 24-75-402 (4), C.R.S.
Source: L. 80: Entire article R&RE, p. 324, § 1, effective January 1, 1981. L. 92: Entire part amended, p. 675, § 4, effective January 1, 1993. L. 95: Entire section amended, p. 885, § 1, effective July 1; entire section amended, p. 860, § 114, effective July 1. L. 98: Entire section amended, p. 1317, § 4, effective June 1. L. 99: (1) amended, p. 762, § 18, effective May 20. L. 2005: (1) amended, p. 1398, § 13, effective June 6; (1) amended, p. 1433, § 13, effective June 6. L. 2011: (1) amended, (SB 11-189), ch. 243, p. 1063, § 4, effective May 27. L. 2012: (1) amended, (HB 12-1292), ch. 181, p. 679, § 10, effective May 17. L. 2019: (1) amended, (HB 191278), ch. 326, p. 3010, § 15, effective August 2.
Editor's note: Amendments to this section by House Bill 95-1022 and House Bill 951241 were harmonized.
Cross references: For the short title ("Colorado Votes Act") in HB 19-1278, see section 1 of chapter 326, Session Laws of Colorado 2019.