MUNICIPAL ELECTION - 2022 GENERAL ELECTION – NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Ballots for the 2022 Election will be mailed October 17, 2022. For information on registering to vote, click on the tabs below. To track your ballot, and see election results click on Weld County Elections Department.

  1. Online voter registration
  2. Deadline information

If you have a Colorado State driver’s license or ID card issued by the Department of Revenue you may register online at www.govotecolorado.com. In addition to registering to vote online you may: 

  • Change your address on your current voter registration record
  • Change your party affiliation on your current voter registration record

The City will be holding a Coordinated Election on November 8, 2022. A coordinated election is one that the county clerk and recorder conducts on behalf of two or more political subdivisions that are hosting an election on the same day in November. Specifically, for a coordinated election to take place, the election must: 

  • Have more than one political subdivision holding an election (state, county, municipality, school district, or special district);
  • Take place on the same day in November; and
  • The eligible voters either are the same for each election or live in overlapping subdivision boundaries.


The City Council has determined to ask two questions to registered voters: 

  1. Ballot issue 2c
  2. Ballot issue 2d
  3. Tabor Notice
  4. Notice of financial information 1-7-908 C.R.S.

RETAIL MARIJUANA EXCISE TAX (tax on commercial marijuana growers)

SHALL THE CITY OF FORT LUPTON TAXES BE INCREASED BY ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($100,000) IN THE FIRST FISCAL YEAR (2023), AND BY SUCH AMOUNTS AS ARE RAISED ANNUALLY THEREAFTER BY IMPOSING, EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2023, A NEW EXCISE TAX OF 1.5% WHEN UNPROCESSED RETAIL MARIJUANA IS FIRST SOLD OR TRANSFERRED BY A RETAIL MARIJUANA CULTIVATION FACILITY WITH THE TAX REVENUES BEING USED TO FUND GENERAL GOVERNMENT EXPENSES AS DETERMINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, WITH THE RATE OF THE TAX BEING ALLOWED TO BE INCREASED OR DECREASED WITHOUT FURTHER VOTER APPROVAL SO LONG AS THE RATE OF TAXATION DOES NOT EXCEED 4%, AND WITH THE RESULTING TAX REVENUE BEING ALLOWED TO BE COLLECTED AND SPENT AS A VOTER APPROVED REVENUE CHANGE WITHOUT REGARD TO ANY EXPENDITURE, REVENUE RAISING, OR OTHER LIMITATION CONTAINED IN ARTICLE X, § 20 (TABOR), OF THE COLORADO CONSTITUTION OR ANY OTHER LAW?

IMPUESTO ESPECIAL SOBRE LA VENTA DE MARIHUANA (impuesto a los cultivadores de marihuana comercial)

¿LOS IMPUESTOS DE LA CIUDAD DE FORT LUPTON AUMENTARÁN A CIEN MIL DÓLARES ($100,000) ANUALMENTE EN EL PRIMER AÑO FISCAL (2023), Y EN LAS CANTIDADES QUE SE AUMENTEN ANUALMENTE DESPUÉS, ESTABLECIENDO A PARTIR DEL 1 DE ENERO DE 2023, UN NUEVO IMPUESTO ESPECIAL DEL 1.5% CUANDO SE VENDA O TRASLADE LA MARIHUANA SIN PROCESAR POR PRIMERA VEZ POR UNA INSTALACIÓN DE CULTIVO DE MARIHUANA Y QUE LOS INGRESOS FISCALES SE UTILICEN PARA FINANCIAR LOS GASTOS GENERALES DEL GOBIERNO SEGÚN LO DETERMINE EL CONCEJO DE LA CIUDAD Y QUE LA TASA DEL IMPUESTO PUEDA AUMENTARSE O DISMINUIRSE SIN MÁS APROBACIÓN DE LOS VOTANTES, SIEMPRE Y CUANDO LA TASA DE IMPUESTOS NO SUPERE EL 4%, Y QUE LOS INGRESOS FISCALES RESULTANTES PUEDAN RECAUDARSE Y GASTARSE COMO UN CAMBIO DE INGRESOS APROBADO POR LOS VOTANTES SIN CONSIDERAR NINGÚN GASTO, RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS U OTRA LIMITACIÓN INCLUIDA EN EL ARTÍCULO X, § 20 (TABOR), DE LA CONSTITUCIÓN DE COLORADO O CUALQUIER OTRA LEY?