22-31-106. Persons entitled to vote at regular biennial and special school elections - registration required.

Statute text

(1) No person shall be permitted to vote at any regular biennial school election or special school election without first having been registered in the manner required by the provisions of article 2 of title 1, C.R.S.

(2) to (5) (Deleted by amendment, L. 92, p. 819, 31, effective January 1, 1993.)

(6) and (7) Repealed.

History

Source: L. 64: p. 597, 6. C.R.S. 1963: 123-31-6. L. 70: pp. 179, 181, 26, 2. L. 74: (2) and (5) amended and (6) and (7) added, pp. 373, 374, 1, 2, effective March 21. L. 75: (5) amended and (6) and (7) repealed, pp. 686, 694, 5, 18, effective July 1. L. 80: (4) and (5) amended, p. 408, 4, effective January 1, 1981. L. 87: (1) and (3) to (5) amended, p. 311, 39, effective July 1. L. 92: Entire article amended, p. 819, 31, effective January 1, 1993.

Annotations

 

ANNOTATION

Annotations

Law reviews. For note, "Purged Voter Lists", see 44 Den. L.J. 279 (1967).

United States citizenship requirements for voters are constitutional. The state's United States citizenship requirements for voting in a school district election do not contravene the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment. Skafte v. Rorex, 191 Colo. 399, 553 P.2d 830 (1976), appeal dismissed, 430 U.S. 961, 97 S. Ct. 1638, 52 L. Ed. 2d 352 (1977).

The state has a rational interest in limiting participation in government to those persons within the political community. Aliens are not a part of the political community. Skafte v. Rorex, 191 Colo. 399, 553 P.2d 830 (1976), appeal dismissed, 430 U.S. 961, 97 S. Ct. 1638, 52 L. Ed. 2d 352 (1977).

Section 22-31-101 and this section, prohibiting permanent resident aliens from voting in school district elections, do not purport to be concerned with prohibiting from voting persons with some common trait, which trait is conclusively presumed from the status of alienage. Instead, the statutes only purport to exclude aliens from voting. Thus, they do not create a conclusive presumption. Skafte v. Rorex, 191 Colo. 399, 553 P.2d 830 (1976), appeal dismissed, 430 U.S. 961, 97 S. Ct. 1638, 52 L. Ed. 2d 352 (1977).

The prohibition against voting placed upon resident aliens does not create a conclusive presumption in violation of the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment since there is no fact presumed from the status of alienage; rather, the general assembly intended to prohibit aliens from voting, and the classification exactly achieves that purpose. Skafte v. Rorex, 191 Colo. 399, 553 P.2d 830 (1976), appeal dismissed, 430 U.S. 961, 97 S. Ct. 1638, 52 L. Ed. 2d 352 (1977).

Section 22-31-101 and this section are not invalid under the supremacy clause. Skafte v. Rorex, 191 Colo. 399, 553 P.2d 830 (1976), appeal dismissed, 430 U.S. 961, 97 S. Ct. 1638, 52 L. Ed. 2d 352 (1977).