Prowers County Clerk Issues 100-Foot Electioneering Warning and Reminds Voters of Election Offenses

Description: Prowers County Clerk and Recorder reminds voters of the 100-foot electioneering restriction near polling places and ballot drop boxes during the 2026 election...

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Prowers Clerk and Recorder

ELECTION NEWS:

100 FOOT LIMIT WARNING – COUNTY COURTHOUSE & COUNTY ANNEX

• No person shall do any electioneering on the day of an election, or during the time when voting is permitted for any election, within any polling location or in any public street or room or in any public manner within 100 feet of any building in which a polling location is located or within 100 feet of any drop-box during October 5 – November 3, 2026.

ELECTION OFFENSES:

• C.R.S. 1-13-106 Forgery – Any person who falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any ballot before or after it has been cast, or who forges any name of a person as a signer or witness to a petition or nomination paper, or who forges any letter of acceptance, declination, or withdrawal, or who forges the name of a registered elector to a voter’s mail-in or mail ballot commits forgery which is a class five 5 felony.

• C.R.S. 1-13-112 Offenses relating to mail ballots – Any person who, by use of force or other means, unduly influences an elector to vote in any particular manner or to refrain from voting, or who falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any mail ballot before or after it has been cast, or who destroys, defaces, mutilates, or tampers with such a ballot upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than eighteen months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Prowers County Election’s Department can be reached at 719-336-8011 for voter and election questions or by emailing at election@prowerscounty.net.

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