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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right here. We are good to have you here.
Welcome to November, everybody. We celebrated the first day of
November on Friday, but maybe you took off Friday after
Halloween's so the fourth day November, Year of our Lord,
twenty twenty four. You might have heard something big happens
in America tomorrow. It's the election day. We'll talk, of
(00:22):
course about that, as we have been. We'll dive into
that here. And it's also November is a big month
because it's also and I'm sure you've been wanting to
mark your calendar for this, it's the month of my
birth so we will be I'm not one of these
guys that celebrates the entire month. I don't get a
birthday month, but I do expect at least a week
of love and affection from somebody I don't know from.
I'm sure my closest friends will celebrate me. I'm lying
(00:44):
they probably won't. They don't even know what it is.
It'd be good to have you here on the radio
show Jimmy Lakey It's News Top six hundred and k.
Col Let me remind you all the interviews you hear
on the program, including the one about the death of
Peanut the Squirrel Last Hour with Arn MacIntyre from Blaze News. Listen,
and that's going to be up at my website Jimmy
Lakey dot com. Last week, if you missed it, we
had doctor nam we wolfon Denesh DASUSA. So if you
(01:07):
miss any part of the program, you just go to
Jimmy Lakey dot com and you can always catch up
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that's an hour by hour breakdown of the broadcast. All right,
very good. All right, let me bring in from Well County,
the Well County Clerk and Recorder. It's Carli Koppas she's
(01:29):
on the hotline this election season, busy season over the
clerk's office. Carly, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Thank you so much Jimmy for having me on. And yes,
it is definitely going to be a very busy week
for everything. Clerk in this day, I kind of.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Walk out, you know, you guys get the walk it through,
you guys get the ballots out. Obviously they have been
out a couple of weeks. Then the ballot track system.
I got my I think I mailed my name within
forty eight hours of receiving my Welld County ballot because
I am a Weld County hooter, and I got my gut.
In the course of that, I got like five or
six text messages, your signature has been your vot's been counted.
I mean, it was a pretty extensive process. Does has
(02:05):
that surge? Is that just consistent throughout the time? Are
you expecting a surge tomorrow? I mean, how does this go.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
For every single presidential election? We always see a pretty
high turnout on election day, and especially today as well Monday, well,
all counties will start to see an uptick with people going,
oh my gosh, I got to get my ballot in
or today is the day to vote, and so we'll
definitely see a surge of returns or in person voting
today and tomorrow, which all counties are prepared for. We
(02:33):
have all of our great amazing volunteer election judges trained
up and ready to go. Some of them have already
been in operation already for our in person sites, and
so we're just going to continue to be prepared for
the uptick of people coming and voting, and I do
want to say with that, everybody does need to understand
that we could potentially be counting Wednesday, Thursday, and even
(02:57):
into Friday, depending on how many people to is to
have their voice heard by turning in their ballot today
and tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
So are the ballots? I got a text from Wild
County said my ballot, my vote has been counted. So
the ones that are handed in early all have already
been counted. Does anybody know the results of those are
the secret? How are those locked down?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Great question, Jimmy. So in Colorado we have a great
opportunity to do all of our process and procedures and
our checks and balances, our security measures starting fifteen days
before an election. Now we do not have the ability
to actually start tabulating or correlating those results. So if
anybody tells you that they know who is winning, they're
(03:38):
just honestly they're fibent to Yet, because we do not
have that ability we have those security checks and process
and procedures in place, we do not actually tabulate until
after seven PM when the polls are officially closed.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
So, like, my ballot's been there for a week and
you have it there, what will happen to my ballot?
Seven pm? What happens to my ballot? It's all that
data will be moved somewhere else or to have to
be rescanned. Just kind of walk me through. It's kind
of like the old schoolhouse rock, The Life of a ballot.
What's going to happ My ballad is sitting there somewhere,
what's going to happen to that?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
So, if you are a voter like yourself who has
already turned at your ballot in the signature verification process,
has been matched, you moved into the opening board, which
keeps your constitutional right to a private ballot upheld, and
then it goes over to the scanners. Our scanners have
already put your bout through our scanning tabulation machines, and
as of right now, it's just sitting there waiting to
(04:31):
be correlated. After seven pm, so my bipartisan team will
go in to our secure area. These people have been
background checked and verified. They will go in after seven
pm do the correlation so we can find out the
first set of unofficial results in Weld County. I'm hoping
to post those to Weld votes dot gov as close
(04:51):
to seven to ten PM as we can, and then
also to the state's election night reporting website as well.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
A lot of folks ask, now, we're getting to the
election season, so we vote for in every state's different
We vote for many different days. It used to be
back in the day when there was like an election day.
It seemed like back when I was growing up, we
always had election day and we could get the results
that night. What's changed now we're computerized. We scanned these
things and it seems that it takes longer to count
(05:18):
than it did when we didn't do all this computerized stuff.
And now we have some states or places saying that
it could take several several days to count the ballots.
Why is it taking so long these days to count
the ballots?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Well, one, it's because we have seen a huge number
of people actually registering to vote now and we could
potentially reach over four million voters. And we have a
usually high turnout of eighty percent or higher. So there's
more people participated in our elections now than there actually
was in prior years. My first election two thousand and four,
(05:52):
we did see over a ninety percent turnout, but we
only had eighty thousand registered voters in will County twenty
years later, I'm say not over two hundred and thirty
thousand registered voters. So if I have again over an
eighty percent turnout, there's a lot of security that we
now have in our elections that we want to make
sure that we are doing our due diligence, especially with
(06:12):
mail ballots. Jimmy, you are very well versed in knowledge
when it comes to elections, and I appreciate that. So
when we are talking about making sure that we are
going to have a process completed in a timely manner,
I'm not going to rush our security processes and procedures,
and I'm not going to rush our great election judges
because accuracy is of the utmost importance for us. And
(06:34):
so that's one of the main reasons now is we
have to make sure we are meeting all of our
checks and balances, making sure that we're keeping our security
protocols upheld, and we want to make sure that every
single paper ballot that we have in Colorado is gone
through the process and that is eligible to be cast
and accurately counted.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Do you have tabulations like where we sit in comparison
to twenty twenty or twenty sixteen on ballots that you
already have been turned in. Have we seen more turned
in early? Some states are saying that they have more.
Republicans are doing better, but Democrats in the lead. What
kind of information do we have on the early voting
that has already come in. Let's say to Weld County,
is it increased decrease about the same.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Going into this week. We are a little bit behind
from where we were in twenty sixteen and twenty twenty
the amount of Democrats and affiliated Republicans and other parties.
As you know, we have a ton of other ones.
They're all just a little bit behind here in Welld
County compared to the prior to presidential elections. Now, I
do suspect, because well we traditionally do turn out quite
(07:39):
heavily for presidentials, that I will see a huge increase
today and tomorrow and we'll probably get caught up to
where we were in those past two I personally, because
I'm an election schep, I hope we surpass those past
two elections for turnout here in Wild County.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Some folks still don't like these mailand ballots. Of course,
color models an all mail in ballot place. There are
places that on election day people can go vote in
person if they want to do that. If they want
to do that, do they need to bring the ballot
they received in the mail? Where do they go? Where
do they find these in person voting places if they
want to do that?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
So, if you would like to come in and vote
in person, we have locations open today. We'll have a
total of sixteen in Well County tomorrow. You can check
out well votes dot gov for our interactive map so
you can see which one is closest to you. If
you still have your instructions that came to you with
your mail ballot, those also have the list of all
(08:39):
of the locations. Now, if you would like to bring
your ballot in as a cheat sheet, because Jimmy, as
you know, this boot is massively huge, make sure you
come in prepared so you can bring that paper ballot
with you as a cheat sheet already pre marked. If
you'd like to turn that over and vote on one
of our ballot marketing devices, which again will print you
(08:59):
with paper ballot, or you can simply hand deliver your
mail ballot. So we still have a couple of those options,
but check out well votes dot gov to find all
the locations and hours.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
There has been some stories of the last week. I'm
sure you followed about our Secretary of State Jenni Griswold
and the passwords for voting machines. That has caused a
lot of people to say, wait, are we secure? How
has welld County been affected by that password leaked? We're
told that the state said lots of people out to
(09:32):
change the passwords and verify the bioss had not been hacked.
Can you give some kind of a comment on that
story and how it has affected and how Weld County
has had to respond?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Absolutely, of course, all sixty four counties are taking this
extremely seriously because no matter how little or big of
an incident, we always make sure that we have a
good grasp of it. So I'm very proud of my
fellow clerk recorders here in Well County. What we have
continued to do is make sure that we checking our
daily access logs. We're reviewing our video surveillance as we've
(10:04):
always done. Also for Weld County, none of the equipment
that we have currently in live production for this election
was impacted by that. It was a backup piece of
equipment for us, so Well counting is sitting in a
really good stance at at this time, and again, everybody
needs to understand there are so many layers upon layers
(10:25):
that we have to protect our voting equipment and protect
our paper bouts, which is the actual official record of
the election. So we have our physical security aspects of it.
We have the key card access, we have our video
surveillance into the server room only limited background checks. People
(10:45):
are allowed to go into there. I can't even go
in there, and I'm the clerk and recorder. My badge
will deny me access. So we do have so many
different layers upon layers to make sure that we are
protected and that your voice is going to be heard
accurately and recorded accurately in our system. So every single
clerk in the recorder in the state has been doing that.
(11:07):
You know, we train for this, we know what we're doing,
and so we're all doing all of our proactive and
reactive steps in the news with this unfortunate event from
the Secretary of State's.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Office, so you're confident that the folks. I've got some
listeners that have said, Jimmy, we should demand literally hand
counts of ballots, not hand recounts. Handcounts because these machines
have been compromised. But you're comfortable to say that we're
all safe, at least in Well County and probably across
the state.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I am one dred percent confident with that. I would
just like to remind everybody that after the election, we
do a wrisk limiting an audit, and Jimmy, you've done
a great coverage on this in the past. Our wrisk
liming on it takes the actual physical paper ballot and
does a comparison to how the voting equipment did read
and interpret that ballot. And again we bring an outside
(11:58):
people to do that audit, So I'm not auditing myself.
That wouldn't make a lot of sense. So we do
have outside people come in and do that for us,
and we will do that after this election as well,
so if there is anything that happens, they will absolutely
be caught at that moment. But I can tell you
right now I'm one hundred percent confident in Well County,
and I know my other fellow clerks have poured a
(12:20):
lot of sweat and tears and sleepless nights getting this
election to be super secure as well, so I can
absolutely stay with confidence that we will be just fine.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Carly Koppas, I appreciate you coming on the program again.
Weld Votes dot gov, Weld Votes dot gov. People need
to get their ballots in if they if somebody says
I don't have lost my ballot, don't have my ballot,
they need to probably go to one of those voting
stations in person places they can found on the website
and clear it up there is is that the best
thing at this point.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Absolutely make sure you get in in plenty of time
before seven pm. Don't wait or hesitate. We have all
options available for you at the in person site. So
check out out the welldos dot gov. We hope to
see you soon and I hope you come and get
your eye voted sticker.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Carly. I appreciate you. Carli Cops Well County Clerk and
Recorder again, Weld Votes dot gov, Weld Votes dot gov.
And that's where you can get on your Well County.
The next hour, we'll check in with Larber County Tina
Harris there and find out how they're prepared and preparing
for the onslaught of elections. So good. I was going
to ask that question if I pat myself on the
hind end a little bit. Then why does it take
(13:27):
so long account and just a decade ago, ten years
ago or so, we have twenty years ago there were
only eighty thousand registered voters and you have an eighty
percent increase, and so that's why it takes a little
bit longer. And there's a lot more security protocols out there.
But to answer any of the queer questions and inquiries
that are out there about fear intrepidation of the voter security,
(13:47):
Well County, I've had friends as I wish I lived
in Well County, I said, owt come, They said, I
could trust your elections. That's the problem. We have a
lot of mistrust out there. And people say, well, Donald
Trump caused that. Well, remember Hillary Clinton said that her
laws had been hacked by the Russians, and then Donald
Trump said it was rigged. And so you do have
(14:07):
people on both sides a reason or no reason, saying
that some things got rigged. And therefore there's a lot
of folks on both sides and depending on who wins
and who loses, think that the election was not fair
and that's not good for our beautiful country. It's not
good at all. And that's why it's good to hear from.
Carly Copps said, that's the other thing that you need
to realize. Vote voting needs to be localized. You need
(14:30):
to have your votes counted as a local Can you
imagine if your votes in welld County, Lharimore County got
shipped down to Denver for voting counting. No, that's not
a good thing. Or can you imagine if we nationalize
the election and you had several regions and we had
to truck in all of these ballots to one place
in the federal government voted Now it's your county by county,
(14:53):
and that's one of the beauties of how we operate
that every state and every county can set some of
their own guidelines in their own protocols, and that keeps
a lot more accountability. Carly, I appreciate you coming on
the show. We'll get that interview posted up if you
missed part of it. That was well County Clerk and
Recorder Collie Cops on the program and she does a
great job. And Tina Harris from Larimer County coming up
(15:15):
next hour of the show. We'll give you all the
update on this pre election day. But again, it could
take longer to account if they get inundated with voters
tomorrow and today. So the early voting is down a
matter of fact, Dan Woog just sent me a stat
and Carly said it was down as well. Dan says,
we're sitting in about forty two percent state. Why twenty twenty,
seventy eight percent of voters had voted in twenty twenty
(15:38):
by this time, and right now we're at forty two percent.
What does that mean for how Colorado votes are red blue?
I don't know, but we are at a very low
turnout at this point. So unless there's a huge surge tomorrow,
people are not going to be don't seem to be
that motivated to vote in Colorado at this point. All right,
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All right here. We are good to have you here.
Welcome to November, everybody. We celebrated the first day of
November on Friday, but maybe you took off Friday after
Halloween's so the fourth day November, Year of our Lord,
twenty twenty four. You might have heard something big happens
in America tomorrow. It's the election day. We'll talk, of
(00:22):
course about that, as we have been. We'll dive into
that here. And it's also November is a big month
because it's also and I'm sure you've been wanting to
mark your calendar for this, it's the month of my
birth so we will be I'm not one of these
guys that celebrates the entire month. I don't get a
birthday month, but I do expect at least a week
of love and affection from somebody I don't know from.
I'm sure my closest friends will celebrate me. I'm lying
(00:44):
they probably won't. They don't even know what it is.
It'd be good to have you here on the radio
show Jimmy Lakey It's News Top six hundred and k.
Col Let me remind you all the interviews you hear
on the program, including the one about the death of
Peanut the Squirrel Last Hour with Arn MacIntyre from Blaze News. Listen,
and that's going to be up at my website Jimmy
Lakey dot com. Last week, if you missed it, we
had doctor nam we wolfon Denesh DASUSA. So if you
(01:07):
miss any part of the program, you just go to
Jimmy Lakey dot com and you can always catch up
there Jimmy Lakey dot com. All the interviews there and
also on the iHeartRadio app. Just type in my name
when you search and you'll see the Laky Effect. And
that's an hour by hour breakdown of the broadcast. All right,
very good. All right, let me bring in from Well County,
the Well County Clerk and Recorder. It's Carli Koppas she's
(01:29):
on the hotline this election season, busy season over the
clerk's office. Carly, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Thank you so much Jimmy for having me on. And yes,
it is definitely going to be a very busy week
for everything. Clerk in this day, I kind of.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Walk out, you know, you guys get the walk it through,
you guys get the ballots out. Obviously they have been
out a couple of weeks. Then the ballot track system.
I got my I think I mailed my name within
forty eight hours of receiving my Welld County ballot because
I am a Weld County hooter, and I got my gut.
In the course of that, I got like five or
six text messages, your signature has been your vot's been counted.
I mean, it was a pretty extensive process. Does has
(02:05):
that surge? Is that just consistent throughout the time? Are
you expecting a surge tomorrow? I mean, how does this go.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
For every single presidential election? We always see a pretty
high turnout on election day, and especially today as well Monday, well,
all counties will start to see an uptick with people going,
oh my gosh, I got to get my ballot in
or today is the day to vote, and so we'll
definitely see a surge of returns or in person voting
today and tomorrow, which all counties are prepared for. We
(02:33):
have all of our great amazing volunteer election judges trained
up and ready to go. Some of them have already
been in operation already for our in person sites, and
so we're just going to continue to be prepared for
the uptick of people coming and voting, and I do
want to say with that, everybody does need to understand
that we could potentially be counting Wednesday, Thursday, and even
(02:57):
into Friday, depending on how many people to is to
have their voice heard by turning in their ballot today
and tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
So are the ballots? I got a text from Wild
County said my ballot, my vote has been counted. So
the ones that are handed in early all have already
been counted. Does anybody know the results of those are
the secret? How are those locked down?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Great question, Jimmy. So in Colorado we have a great
opportunity to do all of our process and procedures and
our checks and balances, our security measures starting fifteen days
before an election. Now we do not have the ability
to actually start tabulating or correlating those results. So if
anybody tells you that they know who is winning, they're
(03:38):
just honestly they're fibent to Yet, because we do not
have that ability we have those security checks and process
and procedures in place, we do not actually tabulate until
after seven PM when the polls are officially closed.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
So, like, my ballot's been there for a week and
you have it there, what will happen to my ballot?
Seven pm? What happens to my ballot? It's all that
data will be moved somewhere else or to have to
be rescanned. Just kind of walk me through. It's kind
of like the old schoolhouse rock, The Life of a ballot.
What's going to happ My ballad is sitting there somewhere,
what's going to happen to that?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
So, if you are a voter like yourself who has
already turned at your ballot in the signature verification process,
has been matched, you moved into the opening board, which
keeps your constitutional right to a private ballot upheld, and
then it goes over to the scanners. Our scanners have
already put your bout through our scanning tabulation machines, and
as of right now, it's just sitting there waiting to
(04:31):
be correlated. After seven pm, so my bipartisan team will
go in to our secure area. These people have been
background checked and verified. They will go in after seven
pm do the correlation so we can find out the
first set of unofficial results in Weld County. I'm hoping
to post those to Weld votes dot gov as close
(04:51):
to seven to ten PM as we can, and then
also to the state's election night reporting website as well.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
A lot of folks ask, now, we're getting to the
election season, so we vote for in every state's different
We vote for many different days. It used to be
back in the day when there was like an election day.
It seemed like back when I was growing up, we
always had election day and we could get the results
that night. What's changed now we're computerized. We scanned these
things and it seems that it takes longer to count
(05:18):
than it did when we didn't do all this computerized stuff.
And now we have some states or places saying that
it could take several several days to count the ballots.
Why is it taking so long these days to count
the ballots?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Well, one, it's because we have seen a huge number
of people actually registering to vote now and we could
potentially reach over four million voters. And we have a
usually high turnout of eighty percent or higher. So there's
more people participated in our elections now than there actually
was in prior years. My first election two thousand and four,
(05:52):
we did see over a ninety percent turnout, but we
only had eighty thousand registered voters in will County twenty
years later, I'm say not over two hundred and thirty
thousand registered voters. So if I have again over an
eighty percent turnout, there's a lot of security that we
now have in our elections that we want to make
sure that we are doing our due diligence, especially with
(06:12):
mail ballots. Jimmy, you are very well versed in knowledge
when it comes to elections, and I appreciate that. So
when we are talking about making sure that we are
going to have a process completed in a timely manner,
I'm not going to rush our security processes and procedures,
and I'm not going to rush our great election judges
because accuracy is of the utmost importance for us. And
(06:34):
so that's one of the main reasons now is we
have to make sure we are meeting all of our
checks and balances, making sure that we're keeping our security
protocols upheld, and we want to make sure that every
single paper ballot that we have in Colorado is gone
through the process and that is eligible to be cast
and accurately counted.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Do you have tabulations like where we sit in comparison
to twenty twenty or twenty sixteen on ballots that you
already have been turned in. Have we seen more turned
in early? Some states are saying that they have more.
Republicans are doing better, but Democrats in the lead. What
kind of information do we have on the early voting
that has already come in. Let's say to Weld County,
is it increased decrease about the same.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Going into this week. We are a little bit behind
from where we were in twenty sixteen and twenty twenty
the amount of Democrats and affiliated Republicans and other parties.
As you know, we have a ton of other ones.
They're all just a little bit behind here in Welld
County compared to the prior to presidential elections. Now, I
do suspect, because well we traditionally do turn out quite
(07:39):
heavily for presidentials, that I will see a huge increase
today and tomorrow and we'll probably get caught up to
where we were in those past two I personally, because
I'm an election schep, I hope we surpass those past
two elections for turnout here in Wild County.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Some folks still don't like these mailand ballots. Of course,
color models an all mail in ballot place. There are
places that on election day people can go vote in
person if they want to do that. If they want
to do that, do they need to bring the ballot
they received in the mail? Where do they go? Where
do they find these in person voting places if they
want to do that?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
So, if you would like to come in and vote
in person, we have locations open today. We'll have a
total of sixteen in Well County tomorrow. You can check
out well votes dot gov for our interactive map so
you can see which one is closest to you. If
you still have your instructions that came to you with
your mail ballot, those also have the list of all
(08:39):
of the locations. Now, if you would like to bring
your ballot in as a cheat sheet, because Jimmy, as
you know, this boot is massively huge, make sure you
come in prepared so you can bring that paper ballot
with you as a cheat sheet already pre marked. If
you'd like to turn that over and vote on one
of our ballot marketing devices, which again will print you
(08:59):
with paper ballot, or you can simply hand deliver your
mail ballot. So we still have a couple of those options,
but check out well votes dot gov to find all
the locations and hours.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
There has been some stories of the last week. I'm
sure you followed about our Secretary of State Jenni Griswold
and the passwords for voting machines. That has caused a
lot of people to say, wait, are we secure? How
has welld County been affected by that password leaked? We're
told that the state said lots of people out to
(09:32):
change the passwords and verify the bioss had not been hacked.
Can you give some kind of a comment on that
story and how it has affected and how Weld County
has had to respond?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Absolutely, of course, all sixty four counties are taking this
extremely seriously because no matter how little or big of
an incident, we always make sure that we have a
good grasp of it. So I'm very proud of my
fellow clerk recorders here in Well County. What we have
continued to do is make sure that we checking our
daily access logs. We're reviewing our video surveillance as we've
(10:04):
always done. Also for Weld County, none of the equipment
that we have currently in live production for this election
was impacted by that. It was a backup piece of
equipment for us, so Well counting is sitting in a
really good stance at at this time, and again, everybody
needs to understand there are so many layers upon layers
(10:25):
that we have to protect our voting equipment and protect
our paper bouts, which is the actual official record of
the election. So we have our physical security aspects of it.
We have the key card access, we have our video
surveillance into the server room only limited background checks. People
(10:45):
are allowed to go into there. I can't even go
in there, and I'm the clerk and recorder. My badge
will deny me access. So we do have so many
different layers upon layers to make sure that we are
protected and that your voice is going to be heard
accurately and recorded accurately in our system. So every single
clerk in the recorder in the state has been doing that.
(11:07):
You know, we train for this, we know what we're doing,
and so we're all doing all of our proactive and
reactive steps in the news with this unfortunate event from
the Secretary of State's.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Office, so you're confident that the folks. I've got some
listeners that have said, Jimmy, we should demand literally hand
counts of ballots, not hand recounts. Handcounts because these machines
have been compromised. But you're comfortable to say that we're
all safe, at least in Well County and probably across
the state.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I am one dred percent confident with that. I would
just like to remind everybody that after the election, we
do a wrisk limiting an audit, and Jimmy, you've done
a great coverage on this in the past. Our wrisk
liming on it takes the actual physical paper ballot and
does a comparison to how the voting equipment did read
and interpret that ballot. And again we bring an outside
(11:58):
people to do that audit, So I'm not auditing myself.
That wouldn't make a lot of sense. So we do
have outside people come in and do that for us,
and we will do that after this election as well,
so if there is anything that happens, they will absolutely
be caught at that moment. But I can tell you
right now I'm one hundred percent confident in Well County,
and I know my other fellow clerks have poured a
(12:20):
lot of sweat and tears and sleepless nights getting this
election to be super secure as well, so I can
absolutely stay with confidence that we will be just fine.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Carly Koppas, I appreciate you coming on the program again.
Weld Votes dot gov, Weld Votes dot gov. People need
to get their ballots in if they if somebody says
I don't have lost my ballot, don't have my ballot,
they need to probably go to one of those voting
stations in person places they can found on the website
and clear it up there is is that the best
thing at this point.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Absolutely make sure you get in in plenty of time
before seven pm. Don't wait or hesitate. We have all
options available for you at the in person site. So
check out out the welldos dot gov. We hope to
see you soon and I hope you come and get
your eye voted sticker.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Carly. I appreciate you. Carli Cops Well County Clerk and
Recorder again, Weld Votes dot gov, Weld Votes dot gov.
And that's where you can get on your Well County.
The next hour, we'll check in with Larber County Tina
Harris there and find out how they're prepared and preparing
for the onslaught of elections. So good. I was going
to ask that question if I pat myself on the
hind end a little bit. Then why does it take
(13:27):
so long account and just a decade ago, ten years
ago or so, we have twenty years ago there were
only eighty thousand registered voters and you have an eighty
percent increase, and so that's why it takes a little
bit longer. And there's a lot more security protocols out there.
But to answer any of the queer questions and inquiries
that are out there about fear intrepidation of the voter security,
(13:47):
Well County, I've had friends as I wish I lived
in Well County, I said, owt come, They said, I
could trust your elections. That's the problem. We have a
lot of mistrust out there. And people say, well, Donald
Trump caused that. Well, remember Hillary Clinton said that her
laws had been hacked by the Russians, and then Donald
Trump said it was rigged. And so you do have
(14:07):
people on both sides a reason or no reason, saying
that some things got rigged. And therefore there's a lot
of folks on both sides and depending on who wins
and who loses, think that the election was not fair
and that's not good for our beautiful country. It's not
good at all. And that's why it's good to hear from.
Carly Copps said, that's the other thing that you need
to realize. Vote voting needs to be localized. You need
(14:30):
to have your votes counted as a local Can you
imagine if your votes in welld County, Lharimore County got
shipped down to Denver for voting counting. No, that's not
a good thing. Or can you imagine if we nationalize
the election and you had several regions and we had
to truck in all of these ballots to one place
in the federal government voted Now it's your county by county,
(14:53):
and that's one of the beauties of how we operate
that every state and every county can set some of
their own guidelines in their own protocols, and that keeps
a lot more accountability. Carly, I appreciate you coming on
the show. We'll get that interview posted up if you
missed part of it. That was well County Clerk and
Recorder Collie Cops on the program and she does a
great job. And Tina Harris from Larimer County coming up
(15:15):
next hour of the show. We'll give you all the
update on this pre election day. But again, it could
take longer to account if they get inundated with voters
tomorrow and today. So the early voting is down a
matter of fact, Dan Woog just sent me a stat
and Carly said it was down as well. Dan says,
we're sitting in about forty two percent state. Why twenty twenty,
seventy eight percent of voters had voted in twenty twenty
(15:38):
by this time, and right now we're at forty two percent.
What does that mean for how Colorado votes are red blue?
I don't know, but we are at a very low
turnout at this point. So unless there's a huge surge tomorrow,
people are not going to be don't seem to be
that motivated to vote in Colorado at this point. All right,
let me remind you about Dan Caplis Dan Campli's law.
(15:59):
He's motivated to make sure that you get what you
need when you need it, as quickly as possible. If
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Dan Capless has been his entire career building a law
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l I S. Dan Capalis Law. All right, coming up
(17:01):
on the program again. It's pre election day here in
the state of Colorado. We'll be talking. I'm going to
read some emails of some comments, go through some other
loose news that's just kind of floating out there. If
you want to jump in eight six six, triple eight
fifty four to forty nine. This next segment is my really,
my only real segment that's opened this hour. This is
this whole show. It's packed wall to wall. Great guest
(17:22):
Jimmy Lakey at iHeartMedia dot Com, Fire me an email,
Jimmy lay at iHeartMedia dot Com. Eight sixty six triple
eight fifty four forty nine Laky on the radio. I'll
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