Tag: election security

More than a week after Election Day, residents of Aurora still aren’t sure who has been elected mayor in what turned into a neck-and-neck race between a former Republican congressman and the Democratic former head of the local NAACP. After election officials posted preliminary results at the end of last week, Mike Coffman, who represented…

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold on Friday called for regulations or legislation to require the Postal Service to notify election officials of delays delivering mail ballots after learning that 828 ballots didn’t land in Denver-area mailboxes until the afternoon of Tuesday’s election — including more than 650 bound for voters in Aurora, where ballot…

Eight days before the statewide general election, just over 11% of active voters have cast their ballots. Monday was the last day to request a mail ballot. Beyond that, voters and prospective voters can still register and cast a ballot up to and including election day, a change the General Assembly enacted in 2013. After…

Fifteen days before the next general election, 104,460 Coloradans have returned their ballots. Republicans led in returns with 42,411, or 41 percent of the total. Unaffiliated voters represented 31 percent, with 31,345 ballots. Registered Democrats turned in 29,432 ballots, or 28 percent of the returns. Men led slightly in ballots returned, at 51 percent of…

If you were to pick a package of the most partisan bills from the 2019 session, a good bet would be four bills on elections and campaign finance signed by Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday. The signing ceremony at the state Capitol on Wednesday drew Democratic county clerks, the Democratic secretary of state, and a…