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Town attorney outlines plan to streamline Castle Rock election code, proposes local complaint process
Summary
The Castle Rock town attorney told the Elections Commission on Sept. 27 that the town will largely adopt state election codes by reference, while creating local rules for campaign-finance exceptions and a third-party complaint process for municipal petitions and recalls.
Town attorney presented an overview of planned revisions to Castle Rock’s municipal election rules at the Sept. 27 meeting of the Castle Rock Elections Commission, saying staff are working with the town clerk and outside counsel to simplify the town code and fill gaps for locally administered matters.
The attorney said the proposal is to adopt, by reference, the state coordinated-election provisions (Title 1, Articles 1–13 of the Colorado election code) for elections run with the county and to rely on the Uniform Municipal Election Code (Title 31, Article 10) if Castle Rock must run its own special municipal elections. “We’re…
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