A last-minute voter guide for the 2025 Colorado election

Whether you’ve filled out your ballot but don’t know what to do with it, haven’t got your ballot or need to register to vote, there’s still time to make your voice heard in this year’s election. 

As of noon on Monday, Nov. 3, 855,367 ballots had been cast, according to the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office. That represents just over 20% of the more than 4.1 million active voters registered in Colorado as of October. 

Coloradans have until 7 p.m. on Tuesday — Election Day — to register to vote and cast a ballot. Here’s what you need to know: 

Where to drop your ballot, receive a ballot or register to vote 

If you’ve filled out your ballot and are still holding onto it, it’s too late to mail it in. You’ll want to find a ballot drop box, which will be open until 7 p.m. on Tuesday. You can go to GoVoteColorado.com and enter your address to see nearby drop box locations.

In Eagle County, you can drop off ballots at these locations: the Clerk and Recorder’s Office in Eagle (500 Broadway), the town of Avon Municipal Building (100 Mikaela Way), The Grand View in Vail (atop the Lionshead Parking Structure, 395 South Frontage Road West), the town of Vail Municipal Building (75 South Frontage Road West), the town of Gypsum Municipal Building (50 Lundgren Boulevard) and the Mountain Recreation Field House in Edwards (450 Miller Ranch Road).

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If you’re registered to vote but are missing a ballot, you can go to an Election Day voting site and cast a ballot in person. If you haven’t yet registered to vote but are eligible to, you can also do so at an in-person vote site before receiving and casting your ballot. 

Those sites can also be found by entering your address at GoVoteColorado.com. Once you’ve cast your ballot, you can track its status at ColoradoBallotTrax.com. 

Coloradans waiting in line at a voting site to cast a ballot, or to register to vote and receive a ballot, can do so as long as they are in line by 7 p.m. on Tuesday. 

You’ll also need to provide a valid ID, such as your Colorado driver’s license or ID card number or the last four digits of your social security number. A full list of acceptable forms of ID can be found at  ColoradoSOS.gov/pubs/elections/vote/acceptableFormsOfID.html.

What you’re voting on 

2025 is what’s considered an off-year election, meaning no national races are occurring. 

In Eagle County, local races will decide who makes decisions in the towns of Vail and Eagle, where Town Council elections are taking place.

In Eagle, two candidates are running for mayor and 10 more are running for four open council seats.

In Vail, six candidates are running for four open seats, and the town is also set to decide on Ballot Issue 2A, a 6% excise tax that would be applied to all short-term rentals in town.

The Eagle River Water and Sanitation District, in Ballot Issue 6A, is asking voters if debt should be increased by $93 million to replace wastewater pipelines and tackle state-mandated upgrades to the regional wastewater treatment facility.

Eagle County voters will also decide on Ballot Issue 1A, a proposal to increase the county lodging tax from 2% to 4% on short-term lodging in unincorporated Eagle County and the town of Gypsum. 

In addition to those local races, Colorado has two statewide ballot measures for voters to decide on this year, Propositions MM and LL. Both have to do with increasing tax funding for the Healthy School Meals for All Program, which was first approved by voters in 2022. 

The program currently provides free school breakfast and lunch to all children regardless of income. Unless more funding is approved, the program will have to limit free meals to only certain students starting next year. 

Proposition MM would raise income taxes on households making over $300,000 or more by limiting standard and itemized tax deductions. That would raise as much as $95 million more every year for the free meals program. 

The tax increase would impact about 6% of Colorado households that file taxes, and translates to an average annual increase of $327 for single filers and $574 increase for joint filers.

Proposition LL would allow the state to keep and spend excess revenue for the school meals program. Under the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR, when programs take in more tax revenue than was initially projected, the state must ask voters if it can keep that excess revenue. 

Colorado lawmakers, during an August special session, also added language to the ballot that allows the state to use excess tax funding to backfill federal cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program, or SNAP. 

As part of the sweeping tax and spending cut law passed by congressional Republicans this summer, the federal government is poised to scale back its share of funding for the anti-hunger program based on each state’s payment error rate. That could cost Colorado as much as $175 million a year, according to state officials.

Live election results will be posted online at VailDaily.com/election beginning after 7 p.m. on Tuesday.