Colorado: Voting leave laws:
Colorado Revised Statute §1-7-102 provides that eligible voters are entitled to be absent from work for up to 2 hours for the purpose of voting on Election Day, unless the employee has at least 3 non-working hours to vote while the polls are open.
- Notice: The employee must apply for leave prior to Election Day.
- Hours: The employer may specify the hours of absence, but the hours must be at the beginning or end of the work shift, if the employee so requests.
- Paid: No more than 2 hours.
Wyoming: Voting leave laws:
§ 22-2-111. Employees time off to vote.
(a) Any person entitled to vote at any primary or general election or special election to fill a vacancy in the office of representatives in the congress of the United States is, on the day of such election, entitled to absent himself from any service or employment in which he is then engaged or employed for a period of one (1) hour, other than meal hours, the hour being at the convenience of the employer, between the time of opening and closing of the polls. Such elector shall not, because of so absenting himself, lose any pay, providing he actually casts his legal vote.
(b) This section shall not apply to an employee who has three (3) or more consecutive nonworking hours during the time the polls are open.
Other notes:
Wyoming early return information will be reported when it becomes available. Wyoming doesn't have a mail in ballot system but any resident may request "no questions asked" an absentee ballot. County clerks have noted that absentee ballot requests are way up this year.
The association keeps getting calls from members asking about how the election is going in Colorado Colorado's Secretary of States office has traditionally been a very non-partisan elected office holder, and while that is changing under the current occupant, the structural foundation is very sound and and the office has a highly professional and competent staff.
Here are data reports current as of 11:30 yesterday - Note all this information is public and searchable and is topline on who has returned ballots (not who they voted for.)
The takeaway is to this point is registered democrats are crushing it and outpacing Independents (who are the largest voting block in Colorado) and Republicans by a wide margin.
Please remember to vote! Elections have consequences.
"Regardless of Party legislators remember how many people voted for and against them and the closer these number are to each other the more balanced their actions are."
General Election Ballot Returns: October 27, 2020
Denver, October 27, 2020 – The Secretary of State’s office will send a daily update every weekday through Election Day reporting the number of ballots returned to county clerks for the General Election on November 3. So far, 1,790,827 ballots have been returned.
Ballots returned spreadsheet including county, party, age, and gender (XLSX)
Ballots returned graphic summary (PDF)
* All data as of 11:30 PM the previous day
