DOWNLOAD & COMPLETE THE WATCHER APPOINTMENT REQUEST FORM

2024 General Election Watcher Appointment Request Form

Choose “save as” when you download the document (spreadsheet) and save it with your name. Use the tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet to fill out the necessary information.

Any questions may be directed to Angie Leath, (719) 520-7325 | angieleath@elpasoco.com Please Note: Requests can take 3 business days to process.

PROVIDE A SIGNATURE IMAGE

Prepare a .jpg or .gif file of an electronic signature for your organization’s appointment authority along with the Watcher Appointment Request Form.

Without the signature, all certificates for watchers must be signed before being issued to watchers.

SUBMIT YOUR REQUEST

Submit the form, along with the Watcher Training Certificate(s), and the necessary signature image AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

VERIFICATION OF CERTIFICATES

All names on the appointment form will be checked for active Colorado registration.

Appointment certificates will then be emailed to you as a PDF file.

Each watcher should keep their signed certificate with them at each authorized location which they visit. If no electronic signature was included in the original submission, the appointing authority must hand sign the certificates before watchers visit locations.

CERTIFICATES ARE NOT TRANSFERABLE TO ANOTHER PERSON​

Election Watcher Guidelines

If a watcher is removed for any reason, the County Clerk & Recorder must notify the party, candidate or committee who appointed the watcher. The removed watcher may be replaced by an alternate watcher.

WATCHER CHECKLIST

When arriving at the assigned location, watchers MUST present the Certificate of Appointment to the supervisor judge or other authorized election worker.

The watcher will take an “oath of watcher”, and the certificate must be signed by both the supervisor and watcher.

The watcher must affirm that he or she WILL NOT do the following.

• Interrupt or disrupt the processing, verification and counting of any ballots or any other stage of the election, except as permitted by the Clerk and Recorder under Election Rule 8.13
• Attempt to review confidential information unless they have taken watcher training
• Disclose or record any confidential information he or she may observe
• Write down any ballot numbers or any other identifying information about the electors
• Touch or handle the official signature cards, ballots, mail ballot envelopes, provisional ballot envelopes, voting or counting machines, or machine components
• Interfere with the orderly conduct of any election process, including issuance of ballots, receiving of ballots, and voting or counting of ballots
• Interact with election judges other than a designated watcher contact, except as permitted by the county clerk under Election Rule 8.13
• Use a mobile phone or other electronic device to make or receive a call in any polling location or other place election activities are conducted
• Use any electronic device to take or record pictures, video, or audio in any polling location or other place election activities are conducted
• Attempt to determine how any elector voted
• Disclose or record any confidential voter information as defined in section 24-72-204(8), C.R.S., that he or she may observed
• Disclose any results before the polls have closed