Colorado to offer language assistance hotline for interpreting ballot - coloradopolitics.com

Beginning Monday, Colorado voters volition beryllium capable to telephone a hotline for assistance interpreting their ballot into different languages.

The connection assistance hotline volition link voters with qualified interpreters to unrecorded construe the wide predetermination ballot contented successful Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese oregon Vietnamese, with further languages disposable upon request.

“Voting should beryllium accessible to each Colorado voter,” said Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold successful a quality release. “The caller connection assistance hotline does precisely that by assisting Colorado citizens who whitethorn lone talk oregon work constricted English with unrecorded ballot interpretation.”

The hotline volition beryllium disposable each weekday from Monday done Election Day connected Nov. 8. The cognition hours volition beryllium 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. until Nov. 4, past 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. connected Nov. 7 and Nov. 8.

To entree the hotline, voters tin telephone Griswold's bureau straight astatine 303-860-6970 for a unit subordinate to link them with an interpreter. Voters tin besides telephone their region clerk’s bureau oregon sojourn a voting halfway to inquire an predetermination justice oregon region unit astir accessing the hotline.

The ballot for the wide predetermination volition see 11 statewide ballot measures, successful summation to much than 150 authorities and section races and section initiatives successful immoderate counties.

Ballots volition beryllium mailed to registered voters betwixt Oct. 17 and Oct. 21.

Coloradans tin registry to ballot and update elector registration astatine GoVoteColorado.gov done Oct. 31 to person a ballot successful the mail. Afterwards, Coloradans tin inactive registry to ballot and ballot successful idiosyncratic until 7 p.m. connected Election Day. In idiosyncratic voting volition beryllium disposable from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. connected Election Day.

More than 400 driblet boxes and 350 voting centers volition beryllium disposable for voters by Oct. 24, with immoderate locations opening earlier. Locations, opening day and hours are disposable astatine GoVoteColorado.gov.