Poncha Springs, Colorado Public Records

Colorado residents can register to vote online at GoVoteColorado.gov, the Secretary of State's official portal, where eligible citizens can register or update their information up to eight days before any election for online and mail registration, or in person through Election Day at voter service centers. The state requires either a valid Colorado driver's license or identification card number, or the last four digits of a Social Security number for online registration. As a universal mail ballot state, Colorado automatically sends every active registered voter a mail ballot for each election approximately 18-22 days before Election Day. Voters can return ballots by mail if postmarked by Election Day, drop them in secure 24-hour ballot drop boxes located throughout Chaffee County - including one at Poncha Springs Town Hall at 340 Burnett Avenue - or deliver them in person to voter service centers during early voting or on Election Day. The Town of Poncha Springs holds municipal elections for mayor and board of trustees on the first Tuesday in April of odd-numbered years (2025, 2027, and so on). The mayor serves a two-year term, while trustees serve staggered four-year terms with three or four seats up for election each cycle depending on the rotation. Candidates for local races file with the town clerk at Town Hall, with nomination petitions typically due in mid-January. Municipal ballot issues and local measures also appear on the April ballot. Residents can find their assigned voter service center using the state's online lookup tool at GoVoteColorado.gov or by contacting the Chaffee County elections office. Voter service centers allow any county resident to vote in person regardless of precinct, and they typically open for early voting 15 days before Election Day. Public election records in Colorado include voter registration lists, available for purchase by campaigns and political organizations for political purposes only, campaign finance reports searchable at tracer.sos.colorado.gov, candidate filings, and certified election results by precinct. Individual voter history, which elections a person voted in, but not how they voted, is also public record.), all state House of Representatives seats (two-year terms), half of the state Senate (staggered four-year terms), and various Chaffee County offices including county commissioners, sheriff, clerk and recorder, assessor, treasurer, coroner, and surveyor. State legislative boundaries were redrawn after the 2020 census, placing Poncha Springs in House District 60 and Senate District 5. Absentee voting is automatic under Colorado's mail ballot system, but voters who need a replacement ballot, are temporarily out of state, or have accessibility needs can request ballots through Chaffee County Clerk's office or download them from the GoVoteColorado.gov portal beginning 18 days before the election.