Jarmel v. Putnam

This is an action brought by Eli Jarmel against Henry Putnam, the County Clerk of Boulder County, and Byron A. Anderson, Secretary of State, in which Jarmel seeks to compel them to permit him to register to vote in the primary election to take place in Colorado on September 12, 1972. Jarmel contends that the three months durational residence required by the Colorado Constitution and the statutes of this state as a prerequisite to registration to vote is unconstitutional as violative of the United States Constitution, Article XIV.

Colorado already has provided that in presidential elections…