If you are a major party (Democrat or Republican) candidate running for state office (US House, State Board of Education, CU Regent, State Senate, State House, District Attorney) and attempting to access the primary election ballot by petition, please e-mail the following information to ballot.access@coloradosos.gov:

• Candidate’s name as it will appear on ballot
• Office running for and district (if applicable)
• Political party of candidate
• Home address of candidate - The home address of the candidate will be printed on the petition. We will not print the home address of the candidate if their voter registration record is confidential.
• Name and address of individual or group you want petitions to be returned to (this goes on the front of the petitions)

Once we receive your information, we will generate a petition format for you in PDF and send it to you for review. You must then submit an electronic version of a hard copy printed proof of the petition format to us before we approve the format for circulation (we will provide more instructions on this when we e-mail you with the PDF of the petition). Please note that we will not start creating & approving petitions until the beginning of January.

The first day petitions may be circulated is Tuesday, January 16. You may not begin circulating your petition until you receive a format approval letter from us.

If you are a candidate running for county office (County Commissioner, Clerk & Recorder, County Treasurer, Assessor, Coroner, Sheriff), please contact your county clerk & recorder’s elections office for a petition template and petition format approval.