Colorado Revised Statutes Title 1. Elections § 1-2-227. Custody and preservation of records

(1)(a) Registration records must be left in the custody of the county clerk and recorder, who is responsible for them. Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection (1), the oaths or affirmations, applications for affidavit registration, federal postcard applications, applications for change of residence or change of name, and other papers provided for by this part 2 shall be preserved by the county clerk and recorder and shall not be destroyed until after the next general election. Such registration records, whether paper or digital, are public records subject to examination by any person, and such person has the right to make copies of the records during office hours.

(b) A county clerk and recorder may destroy paper voter registration records as soon as they have been digitally recorded in the statewide voter registration system.