Colorado election officials will develop tools to improve access for voters with disabilities to the state’s vote-by-mail system, following a bill signed into law this week by Gov. Jared Polis.
Under the new law, the Colorado secretary of state’s office will use assistive technology to help voters with visual impairments complete their ballots at home, as most of the state’s voters have been able to do since 2013, when Colorado introduced mail-in voting. While the state’s election officials will responsible for building out the new tools, the bill was cowritten and championed by the state Office of Information Technology, which sets statewide standards for making sure government technology is accessible to people with disabilities.
