Watching boxes of paper ballots get wheeled into the Denver Elections Division office, checked for signature verification and moved through the entire process to count the votes — on the day before election day, no less — left Chhabi Mahali with three words: “Just simply speechless.” Mahali was among a delegation of civic-minded young professionals […]
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It’s Election Day in Colorado. Here’s what you need to know.
It’s Election Day in Colorado, and there’s still time to vote if you haven’t done so already — and even if you haven’t registered. More than a million registered voters in Colorado have yet to cast a ballot, so if you’re one of those procrastinators there are some important things you should know. Here’s a […]
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61,000 Adams County voters should receive their ballots Wednesday after the documents went missing
Some 61,000 voters in Adams County should receive their ballots on Wednesday after the documents went missing in a situation that remains under investigation by mail and local elections officials. “All ballots were received yesterday at 4 p.m., intact, sealed and secured,” said David Rupert, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service. “They were rolled […]
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61,000 Adams County voters are still missing ballots (and other voting problems around Colorado)
A quarter of voters in Adams County — a key 2018 battleground in Colorado — have yet to receive their ballots because one of four trucks carrying them to be mailed didn’t make it to a postal processing center last week. About 61,000 Adams County ballots — mostly for residents in Thornton, Brighton and Aurora […]
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Did you spill soup on your ballot? Leave it in a rental car? Here’s what to do.
Now that ballots for the Nov. 6 election have landed on kitchen counters across Colorado, voters have some last-minute questions. Based on what they asked just before the 2016 election, the prompts cover everything from “What if I spilled coffee on it?” to “My kids filled in the bubbles, now what?” Here are some answers […]
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A lot more than you might realize goes into getting your Colorado mail-in ballot from A to Z
Inside of a northeast Denver building spanning roughly seven football fields, the journey begins for about two-thirds of the more than 3 million ballots that will be mailed to voters ahead of the Nov. 6 election. It’s here that the U.S. Postal Service plays its vital role in Colorado’s all-mail-in elections. The building was roiling […]
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Check the mail: Colorado’s Election 2018 ballots are on their way today. Here’s what you need to know.
Colorado’s county clerks will begin mailing more than 3 million ballots to voters on Monday as the state’s roughly three-week-long Election Day officially kicks off. About 2 million of those ballots will pass through the U.S. Postal Service’s processing plant in Denver on Monday afternoon and Tuesday alone. Voters this year have a range of […]