HB 10-1077: Fusion Voting for Partisan Elections

• Amends Colorado's Uniform Election Code of 1992 to allow fusion voting, enabling a single candidate to be nominated by more than one political party for the same partisan office in federal and state elections.

• Modifies "sore loser" restrictions to permit minor party nominees who lose a primary election for another party's nomination to remain eligible to run as the minor party's nominee in the general election.

• Allows minor political parties to waive or relax through their constitutions or bylaws the 12-month voter registration requirement for petition-nominated candidates.

• Permits eligible voters to sign multiple nomination petitions for the same candidate from different minor political parties and requires fusion candidates' names to appear on each party's ballot line with a statement that voters may vote for the candidate only once.

• Takes effect January 1, 2011, unless subject to referendum petition, in which case approval by voters at the November 2010 general election is required.