Elections

Risk-limiting audit and reconciliation are complete and two of three Canvass Board members certified the results. The third board member requested procedure documents and accounting logs, according to the county Elections Division.

On Monday morning, employees of the Secretary of State’s Office will convene to roll a 10-sided dice 20 times, creating a sequence of numbers, or a “seed,” to determine which ballots the counties must check to confirm the accuracy of the 2020 election. 

Ashley Panelli, associate state director for the group 9to5 Colorado, said all eyes are now on Colorado, and she hopes the message sent by voters will help pave the way for paid leave in other states.

“To ensure tabulation was accurate, the process reviews how a ballot’s votes were captured at the time it was processed by comparing a sample of paper ballots with digital tallies," according to a county news release.

Two opposition groups, Coloradans Protecting Wildlife and the Colorado Cattlemen's Association, issued statements Thursday saying it appeared that the initiative would succeed.

Entre la multitud de decisiones que los votantes de Longmont tuvieron que tomar el martes se encontraban las carreras para el Senado y la Cámara de Representantes estatales, para comisionado del condado y tres propuestas de ley.

A las 12:45 p.m. el martes, el 82% de votantes activos en el Condado de Boulder y el 76% de votantes activos en Colorado ya habían emitido su voto, de acuerdo a datos de la Oficina del Secretario de Estado de Colorado. Esto hizo que la votación durante el día de las elecciones fuera mucho más tranquila de lo normal, dijo Molly Fitzpatrick, Secretaria y Registradora del Condado de Boulder.

Now that Election Day has come and gone, local groups are offering chances for people to debrief and look ahead, and mental health and lifestyle professionals are offering words of wisdom on how to best move past the anxiety.

As of early Wednesday morning, both measures were poised to pass.

The mill levy increase, Ballot Issue 7A, passed by a margin of 71% to 29% in Boulder County, according to unofficial election results posted at 12:36 a.m. Wednesday. That was more than enough pro votes to counter the opposite sentiments of the majority of 5,810 Weld County voters, who were against the measure 51% to 48%, according to results posted at 12:46 a.m.