General Voting Information

Quick Links

• Address Wizard at Jeffco website (opens in new window)

Very cool tool. Quickly see:

• Your County Precinct Number
• Confirm if you reside in unincorporated Jeffco or a municipality (and if in a municipality, what Ward or municipality precinct)
• See who are your current elected officials

• Voter Registration -- Sign up or Edit (opens in new window)

• Change your party affiliation, choose to vote by mail-in ballot (either permanently or just for the next election), change your address
• You can use the online form to register to vote.

• Jeffco's Voter Information page (opens in new window)

2012 Elections

For Jefferson County voters, the November 6, 2012 election is for:

• U.S. President and Vice President
• U.S. House of Representatives (all districts)
• Colorado State Senator - only districts 19 & 22(to fill vacancy)
• Colorado State House of Representatives - all districts
• District Attorney
• Jeffco County Commissioners for districts 1 and 2 (elected at-large)
• University of Colorado Regents: One at-large position and District 7 (i.e. same as US Congress District 7)
• Regional Transportation District (RTD) - Districts D and M. 
  See below the Jefferson County precincts in those two RTD Districts. Your RTD District is also on your Voter Registration or RTD's District Map (PDF).  
      

  Last 3 Digits of the Jefferson County Precincts in:
  Regional Transportation District D	Regional Transportation District M
  001 002 236 237 242 246 247 248 250 251 252 254	056 091 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 188 190 191 192 193 196 197 198 200 201 205 206 215 217 219 220 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 238 239 240 241 243 244 245 249 253 255 256 257 258 259

  
   
• Probably ... several ballot intitiaves.  Maybe one will be a proposed tax increase: More funds for RTD (We will let you know as soon as we know.) You can see the status of ones being considered, by going to the Colorado Secretary of State site which provides details HERE.

Below are the key steps in the Caucus/Assembly/Primary process. Participate and make a difference!

Now ..... Know the Candidates

People can announce their candidacy, i.e. wanting to be chosen as their party's candidates for the various offices up for election in November, through about March. They make it official by filing a "candidate affidavit" with the Colorado Secretary of State. In March - April, the GOP County, State and Congressional Assemblies then pick from that field of candidates a single candidate to run for each office up for election in November.

We always post on the site who's announced their candidacy, and we now have slate of candidates for the Primary.  See that at 2012 GOP Candidates page.

February 7 ..... Come to your Precinct's GOP Caucus

We hope you joined your neighbors in your precinct's 2012 GOP caucus which was held 7pm on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012.  It was here we selected the delegates to the GOP county, state, and congressional assemblies. Read more about what is accomplished at a caucus. The next caucus will be held in 2014. If you want to be a delegate, come to your precinct's caucus and offer to serve as a delegate.

March - April ..... County, State, and Congressional Assemblies

The attendees at the GOP caucus select the delegates to these assemblies. At these assemblies, the delegates select the GOP candidates for the offices up for election in November. (Read about the Caucus and Assembly process). In a Presidential election year, right after the State Assembly, the State Convention convenes and elects the delegates to the National Convention. See the Elections Calendar on our site for details on dates and locations of the assemblies.

June 4 - 26 ..... GOP Primaries Election

The GOP Primaries Election will be by mail ballot only. Look for your mail ballot June 4 -8 and get it back to Jefferson County by the official Primaries Election date, June 26. Typically the ballot will have a single GOP candidate per office (i.e. the candidate was selected at the assembly and there are no unusual circumstances like a candidate getting a petition with enough signatures in spite of having not won the election in the assembly). So you may wonder why you are being asked to mark your ballot since there is only a single GOP candidate listed per office. Jefferson County sends out the ballots anyway because they have decided to send every registered voter in a major party its party's primary ballot unless every race is uncontested within all the major parties. To see who is now on the GOP Primary Ballot go to 2012 GOP Candidates page.

November 6, 2012 ..... General Election

Although officially we won't know the parties' candidates for the November General Election until the parties have held their assemblies and their national conventions (for President and Vice President), we'll post information about the likely candidates on the 2012 General Election page (will provide a link here when we do that --- webmaster.) as soon as we are reasonably confident. (E.g., we think it's safe to say Obama and Biden are the likely Democrat candidates for President and Vice President.)

The Nov. 6 election will be held in polling places throughout the county and by mail-in ballot if you have selected that option in your registration. To check your registration go to the state's page: Voter Registration -- Sign up or Edit (opens in new window). To see the offices up for election in YOUR precinct, go to the look-up page on our site here.

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