[Editor's note: For the applicability of this section on or after January 1, 2026, see the editor's note following the part 16 heading.]
- (1) Unless a clerk provides multilingual ballot access pursuant to section 31-10-1603 (1)(a), the clerk of any municipality that satisfies the criteria specified in section 31-10-1603 (1) shall create a minority language sample ballot in any minority language for which a minority language sample ballot is required pursuant to section 1-5-906 for the county in which the municipality partially or wholly exists.
- (2) The minority language sample ballot must include all of the same content that is on the English language ballot.
- (3) The clerk shall make the minority language sample ballot available and accessible to electors on the municipality's website and at polling places municipality-wide, if used. For an election using mail ballots, the clerk shall notify all qualified electors in the municipality via the mail ballot packet and in each language in which a minority language sample ballot will be created that a minority language sample ballot is available.
Source: L. 2025: Entire part added, (SB 25-001), ch. 178, p. 762, § 14, effective August 6.