Election data collection and maintenance. [Editor's note: For the applicability of this section on or after January 1, 2026, see the editor's note following the article 47 heading.]

1-47-301. Election data collection and maintenance. [Editor's note: For the applicability of this section on or after January 1, 2026, see the editor's note following the article 47 heading.] (1) (a) The secretary of state shall collect and maintain the following data in an electronic format: (I) Annual estimates of total population, voting age population, and citizen voting age population by race, ethnicity, language minority group, and disability status for each political subdivision, which are specified at the precinct level, if available, or the district or county level and which are based on information from the United States census bureau, including from the American community survey, or information of comparable quality collected by a public entity. The department of local affairs, created in section 24-1-125, shall annually provide the required estimates to the secretary of state. The secretary of state's office shall, to the extent that such data exists, annually provide the department of local affairs with voting precinct boundaries in the form that such data exists. (II) Election results at the precinct level, if any, for state and political subdivision elections; and (III) Geocoded locations of voter service and polling centers, polling locations, ballot drop boxes, and ballot drop-off locations for each election in each political subdivision, if available, in addition to the number of days and hours that each voter service and polling center, polling location, or ballot drop-off location is open. (b) The secretary of state shall retain the data described in subsection (1)(a) of this section for the length of time that it is available or the preceding twelve years and shall maintain the data on as current a basis as is possible. (c) The secretary of state shall make the data described in subsection (1)(a) of this section available on the secretary of state's website in an accessible and appropriate electronic format; except that personally identifiable voter information that is not publicly available is not published and accessible. Source: L. 2025: Entire article added, (SB 25-001), ch. 178, p. 758, � 11, effective August 6.