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Boulder County, CO – The Boulder County Elections Division urges voters to check their mail ballot status if they are not already signed up for BallotTrax messages. BallotTrax is the free service used statewide by county clerks to notify voters that their ballots have been mailed, received back, and then finally counted by election offices.
Mail ballot signature verification is an important part of the Colorado voting model. It is how identity is verified when voting a mail ballot. The longer a voter has lived in Colorado and the more frequently they vote, the more versions of someone’s signature the elections office has on file to complete the verification process. If you are a first-time voter, the elections division may only have one or two signatures on file for you – and they may be of poor quality if it was captured on a signature pad. That means you are more likely to have your ballot put into rejected status during signature verification.
The good news is that if Boulder County Elections cannot verify your mail ballot signature, you have until 8 days after the election to “cure” your signature issue and still have your ballot counted. The deadline to cure for this election is Wednesday, November 12.
For information on how to check the status of your mail ballot and find out if you have to “cure” any issue with your signature, visit BoulderCountyVotes.gov. There is also a section on the website that dives into ballot processing and how ballot processing continues after Election Day.
Boulder County Elections wants to stress that it is important to cure your ballot signature and have your ballot count even if the contests you most care about have won or lost. This is first because some contests may still be close and every vote counts. And second, if it is not cured, the ballot is never counted, and all the names/ballot envelopes are turned over to the District Attorney for investigation into voter fraud. Thus, if a voter does not respond to the Boulder County Elections letter, they will eventually get a letter from the Boulder District Attorney’s office that requires response.
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