Frequently Asked Questions

Precinct captains are a critical part of campaign outreach and voter turnout. You can make a difference in our local, state, and national elections. Below please find the duties of a Las Animas County Precinct Captain: 

• Get to know your precinct.
• Get to know your neighbors/compare lists to voter rolls.
• Get to know your constituents.
• Support candidate, township, county and state Republican fundraising efforts.
• Promote good government by supporting Republican elected officials (annual township meetings, letters to the editor, radio, social media, etc.)
• Attend GOP meetings and conventions.
• Get to know your elected officials so that you can call them for information or to help people in your precinct.
• Recruit and recommend election judges.
• Review walk sheets during the election season.
• Distribute literature and make phone calls during election season.

 Precinct caucuses are meetings of registered electors within a precinct who are members of a particular major political party. The purpose of precinct caucuses is to elect precinct committee persons and delegates to county assemblies. Caucuses are held in locations across Colorado and are open to the public. 

To be eligible to vote in a political party's precinct caucus a voter must be:

• A resident of the precinct for at least 22 days;
• Registered, or preregistered if allowed by a political party’s rules, to vote no later than 22 days before the caucus; and
• Affiliated with the party holding the caucus for at least 22 days before the caucus.

Also, some voters under the age of 18 may be eligible to vote at precinct caucuses. The major parties have slightly different eligibility requirements.

A pre-registrant who is affiliated with the Republican party, is seventeen years of age on the date of a caucus, and who will be eighteen years of age on the date of the next general election may vote at the caucus.

A pre-registrant who is affiliated with the Democratic party and is 16 years or older may vote at the caucus.

Please consult each major political party’s bylaws for more information.

Caucus attendees elect officers who will be responsible for organizing political activities within the precinct. Caucus attendees also elect delegates and alternates to represent the precinct at the political party's county or district convention. 

The county assembly is convened to designate county candidates for the primary election and to select delegates to the congressional district assemblies and the state assembly.

The district assembly is then convened to designate district level delegates to the national convention. The delegates also nominate candidates for Congress, the Colorado General Assembly, the State Board of Education, the Board of Regents, and District Attorneys.

The purpose of the state assembly is to nominate candidates for statewide offices to the primary election ballot. During the assembly, delegates will also be elected to the national convention.

• Register by mail, a voter registration drive, or a voter registration agency up to 22 days before Election Day.
• Register online HERE up to 8 days before Election Day.
• Register in person at the Las Animas County Election Office at  200 East 1st Street, Trinidad, CO 81082, or any designated voter service and polling location up to and including Election Day.
• Your eligibility to vote will be based on the date of online registration, the postmark date, or the date you deliver the form to the county Clerk and Recorder’s office.

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