At least a dozen mailed ballots were intercepted and cast on the Western Slope before voters received them, according to the Colorado Secretary of State's Office.

At least a dozen mailed ballots were intercepted and cast on the Western Slope before voters received them, according to the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office. Three of those ballots were cast and counted in Mesa County before the county clerk was able to pull them from the final tally.

Colorado’s Department of State learned about the intercepted ballots on Tuesday.

“The ballots were filled out, the return envelopes were signed, they were then returned to a USPS blue box, so that’s a postal box, not a ballot drop box,” said Secretary of State Jena Griswold in a news conference on Thursday afternoon. “The issue was discovered during the signature verification process.”

  • kescusay@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Predictions:

    • The perpetrator is a Republican.
    • His excuse will be, “Everyone does it and no one gets caught,” despite getting caught.
    • Other Republicans will continue to believe in imaginary Democratic voter fraud, while ignoring instances of actual fraud like this one from their own party members.
    • The Pantser@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      Yea sure democrats do voter fraud and nobody ever has the proof. Either democrats are so good at fraud because we’re much smarter or there really isn’t any fraud.

      • vortic@lemmy.world
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        14 days ago

        The problem is that Republicans are being told that there is proof. That the fraud is rampant and everyone knows it. It’s just that “they” keep removing and hiding the information.

        My mom seriously believes that there is mountains of proof and that she has seen it in the past, but can’t find it anymore because it has been deleted from the internet.