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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wow, can you believe the show's halfway over already? Zippity
doo das zippity day. It's moving right along. Isn't it
a pre election eve? Election eve? Do you set up
milk and cookies or anything for Uncle Sam tonight? I
don't know how the election eve works, but anyway we
get ready. If you haven't cast your ballots, feel free
to do show. And if you are going to send
(00:20):
other milk and cookies for Uncle Sam, do that. Or
Donald Trump, the ghost of Donald Trump, or the ghost
of Kamala Harris come visiting. However it works. Happy election
Eve and tomorrow it's all done, but the counting after
tomorrow about seven o'clock in the Mountain time zones. Good
to have you here on the show. Last hour, we
talked to Well County clerk and record at Carli Compass,
(00:41):
and she gave us a rundown on all things Weld
County and elections in election day and kind of what's
going on right now. I want to bring in Tina Harris.
She is a Well County clerking and recorder for Larimer County. Hello,
Larimer County, good morning, thanks for listening to the show.
Tina Harris on the hotline Weld count excuse me, Larimer
County clerk in record Tina, welcome the show.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Hey, great, hello, how are you?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I'm very very well. Is this a day? The next
couple of hours, the next couple of days? Do you
get any sleep? Does? How does this season of the
year compare with the rest of the year for the
clerk and recorder?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, you know, this is our fourth election in a year,
so this is our third election for twenty twenty four
and so if you're asking me if there's any fatigue involved, absolutely,
but we're still soldering on and we're really excited for
the You know, we have one day, ten hours and
(01:38):
fifty minutes left and we're counting that down. And please
know it doesn't stop at seven pm. There's still a
great deal of work that has to be done, but
it's like we're over the hump at that hour.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
That hour. Now, what's your guess, Carlie cops in Well
County that depending on how many today and tomorrow cast ballots,
I could really stow down the voting process because those
don't start getting processed until after seven o'clock tomorrow. What
is your estimate on when Larimer county numbers will be in.
Do you have any guests, how many have you already
kind of run through the system, and any guests on
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how long it's going to take to get it all
wrapped up.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Sure, so right now we have a little over well
about two hundred and sixty nine thousand, five hundred and
eighty seven active voters. We've already received one hundred and
fifty three thousand and eight seventy seven, so about a
fifty seven percent turnout, And so that makes us pretty
excited because initially we were thinking that folks were not
(02:42):
going to really start voting until election day, and we
were anticipating maybe roughly around ninety thousand ballots to be
returned on election day. But as this as the turnout
continues to increase, those numbers actually decrease.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So it makes us very Larimer County is running well
ahead of the state, and I think the state wide
is sitting at about forty two percent of the voters
have voted. In twenty twenty, it was a seventy eight,
so you're about fifty percent of Larimer County. So Larimer
County is above the average state wide on people that
have already cast their votes. The state itself is running
way behind compared to twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And you know, I would say that it's pretty deceptive
at this moment because people run data at different times,
and so you might be looking at data from yesterday
and it hasn't been released yet for today. The reason
ours might look pretty high at this point is because
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we posted to our dashboard, which is out there on
our website, so everybody has a visual of where we're at.
We posted at six fifty two this morning, so there
could just be a lapse in data and we might
actually be right in there with everybody else.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Tina Harrison, Larimer County's clerking Recorders on the hotline, you
mentioned your website own people to be able to know
if they're following the Larimer County election or they need
information any of that. What is the website that people
can go to in Larimer County to keep up with
everything the next twenty four to forty eight hours.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Sure, thanks for asking. It's vote that is the as
in victor ote dot Larimer dot gov. And please check
out our newly our dashboard because what it's doing is
it's actually it's the unofficial ballot return data. Take a
look at that. It even shows a voting method, what
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has been returned by mail or through dropboxes versus in person.
I will say that we are a little higher than
normal are averaged and are in person voting. So we're
at two point eight percent right now who have voted
in person, and it usually hovers around one percent, So
we're a little high there, but that's okay. You know.
(04:58):
I encourage everybody to get their ballots in today if
you can. Don't wait until tomorrow, because, as you know,
life happens and sometimes that whatever that event is could
prevent you from getting your voice heard. So the deadline
is seven pm tomorrow. We must have your ballot at
(05:20):
the clerk's office or in a dropbox by seven pm.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Don't drop it into the post office, my friends, You've
waited too longs for that. Don't do it drop box.
If you want to know locations, even if you wanted
to be one of those people that vote in person,
or learn more about where your ballots at, or want
to vote, dot Larimer dot gov. Vote dot Larimer dot gov.
Tina Harris's my guess, Tina, A lot of folks the
last many years worry about voter security and election security.
(05:46):
What protocols are in place. Let's say because it's an
all mail in ballot, talk about somebody sends your ballot in.
Obviously there's a signature verification. There's no ID with that.
How confident and how does that signature verification work? And
what if something gets flagged in the system? Uh, to
give people confidence that hey, we're running a secure election
(06:06):
even though there's no voter ID required in a mail
in election.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Well, the voter I D required has happened before the
signature verification process. So you know, most people will register
to vote when they get their driver's license, right, get
their driver's license or their ID so or they will
fill out a form, a voter registration form. So verification
(06:31):
has already taken place, and that's really what sets us
up for success. So we capture those signatures and then
when we do our signature verification. You know, everything is
under chain of custody, so your ballot is never alone
with anyone. So chain of custody means that you know
they are when they're not attended, are you know, being
(06:53):
over seen by a bipartisan election judges. That means they're stealed.
They are in a container that is sealed, and then
you know, they go through the receiving process. We run
them through our system for signature, where we're capturing an
image of that signature. Those envelopes are not open until
(07:14):
we can verify that signature. If for whatever reason there
is a discrepancy, you'll get a cure letter from our
office and you have eight days after the election to
cure that signature. Everything that we do is under twenty
four to seven surveillance camera surveillance and so that you
know in those areas are you need key card access
(07:39):
to get them, So they're very secure areas of the
counting facility, and every judge goes through, and every employee
goes through a rigorous CPI checked background check because we
want to make sure that there's no fraud. No one's
been convicted or a fraud right, any type of fraudt
(08:02):
and it's not just go ahead.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I was going to say. The recent news, of course,
I'm sure you've been in the data with questions about it,
was the Jenna Griswold and her website, the website of
the Secretary of State's office had some passwords that were
evidently up there on the website and the state Governor
Polis and everybody has said, hey, we're dispatching all hands
on deck to make sure and go through the biosystems
of every machine that could have been compromised and or
(08:26):
had their passwords exposed. How did that affect Larimer County
when you got the news and did was were these
passwords anything involved with Larimer County? And what has been
the response?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Well, to ease everyone's mind, Larimer County was not impacted
by that. By the leaking or the release of the
voting system bios passwords. It affected you know, some Colorado counties,
but not Larimer County. Thanks to our proactive replacement of
our voting equipment in twenty twenty three, we were not
(09:02):
impacted by that at all. So our bios passwords were
not on that list.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
That is good to know. Tina Harris from Larimer County
is on the hotline. So Tina, you're telling everybody out there,
the voting return look good, but it's still time to
get your ballot in there and a confidence. You know,
after every election twenty sixteen, we had one side said
that Russia stole the election, and then in twenty twenty
it was all rigged. I always say that elections are
(09:33):
run on a local level and it's not like they're nationalized.
So how confident are you and knowing the internal workings
and how the sausage is made that when people say Russia, Russia, Russia,
or it's all rigged, rigged, rigged, does that kind of
make you? Are you wondering what world they're looking at
because you feel that confident in the security of Larimer County.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I do, But you know that's the narrative that's out
there right now. I'm not saying it's not true, you know.
You know, I'm not trying to tell everybody that they're wrong,
right But what I can say, specifically for Larimer County
is people need to remember that the folks that are
actually conducting this election are your friends, your family, and
(10:18):
your neighbors. These are judges, they work and bipartisan teams.
It would take a huge effort for something to nefarious
to happen. Our system is not connected to the Internet
in any way, and no remote access is even possible.
So you know, I am very confident that at the
end of the day and at the end of this election,
(10:40):
the results will be the results specifically here in Colorado
and in Laromer County.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
So tomorrow seven o'clock that's when I guess you've already
been able to do some signals of verification. So some
ballots have already been reviewed. Although that data has just
kind of stored away, I guess most it's secure. No
one knows what the results. So those pre counted ballots are.
And at seven o'clock you start kind of putting it
all together, and the first results that will come out
(11:06):
from Larimer County on your website vote dot Larimer dot
gov are going to be those early voters, those yes.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
So when we will do our first posting of the
unofficial results, you know, right around eight o'clock. One of
the reasons is because we've seen so many people in
our voting in person, chances are at seven pm, when
our polls closed, we may still have individuals voting, and
so we cannot release any results until after the polls
(11:36):
have closed and people have are finished voting.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
So you want to make sure rather than rather that
you could release something earlier. But you're like, now, let's
hold off, let's make sure everybody. Let's not try to
dissuade them or persuade them, to go. Let's just let
them get the voting process then release it. That makes
a little bit of sense. I'm guessing that's kind of
the motivation is you want people to vote, if they're
in line, vote and don't be persuaded by some results
that came out from from your county.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Or your district, right exactly. You know, I want people
to be confident in their voting and I don't want
there to be any distractions.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
A lot of people are worried and my listeners and
you've probably have heard this as well. The voter roles,
we have easy registration. I know there was a mistake
by the Secretary of State's office a few years ago
telling people that were not legal to vote to actually vote.
What is the process of making sure that the people
on the voter roles and the people that are returning
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their ballots that they're actually supposed to be returning a ballot.
Is there something that the county can do or is
involved in making sure that the correct people are voting?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Well? First of all, first off, we are very very
good at maintaining our voter roles. You know, we can't
do it all by ourselves, right, So we get information,
we get reports and data from many organizations throughout the state,
whether it's the Department of Revenue, the Department of Corrections,
vital statistics. We get all of that and so we
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are very good at keeping our voter rolls up to date. However,
you know, we can only do so much if we
don't have individuals actually notifying us that they have moved
and updating their address. There will be some discrepancies, and
so we need everyone's help. This is a team effort.
As far as people who vote that are not eligible
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to vote, those are caught pretty We don't have anything
on the inside like Larimer County, but we do. The
state does do. They're the ones that maintain and they
are the ones that verify the eligibility. So eligibility requires
that you be a US citizen, you be eighteen years
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of AIDS or older, and you've lived in the county
or in Colorado for twenty two days. All right.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
If somebody's got their ballad right now and they haven't
turned it in, they don't want to mail it, they
need to go to a drop box or a location
to drop it. Those can be founded vote dot Larimer
dot gov. And if somebody does want to vote in
person they don't want to, where do they find that
and do they have to take the ballot they received
the mail and vote on that or do they get
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a separate ballot when they go to the in person location.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
To do either one. We have eight new We have
eight more sites opening today, so Larimer County will have
twenty VSPCS voting service and polling centers open across the
county so that it's a little more convenient. People don't
have to drive real far to get to a v SPC.
If they want to vote their mail ballot that they
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received in the mail, they can drop it either at
one of those VSPC locations or in a drop box
that's near them. That information is out there on our
website at the vote dot Larmer dot gov, and so
I encourage anybody everyone to look at that. They have
it now. If they don't want to vote that mail
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ballot that they received in the mail, that's okay. They
can come into a vote center and request an in
person ballot, and what that will do is void that
mail ballot so that it's no longer active, and then
we will give them a mail or a in person
ballot to vote there in the vote center, but they
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can't leave with that ballot. They would have to vote
it and drop it there.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I know somebody's going to ask me if I don't
ask this question. So if somebody comes in and says, listen,
I want to pick up a ballot here and vote,
is there an ID check or you just take their
word for it, somebody's going to ask me. You better
ask that question. If somebody shows up an in person
voting center it says, I don't want to vote my
mail ballot, please give me another one. Here's my name.
How do you know that that's that person?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, so if you choose to vote in person, you
do have ideas required You have to bring that in
because there will be no signature verification at that point.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Gotcha, Tina Harris. I appreciate your time. Vote dot Larimer
dot gov. Vote dot Larimer gov. Get your vote in
Larimer County. Vote vote dot Larimer dot gov. Tina, I
appreciate it. Have we covered it all? I think we
covered it pretty well.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I think so too, And Jimmy, I appreciate you asking
me on today.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
You got it. Thanks Tina Harris, Larimer County Clerk and Recorder,
and notice that I patted myself on the hind end
and said, I thought I did a pretty good job,
and she did a great job answering all the questions.
Vote dot Larimer dot gov. Again, I think it's important
that you recognize that whether your person wins or loses,
in Colorado, our votes are elections are handled by local officials.
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And also Larimer County please needs to know that you
just heard there that the Jenny Griswold problem that she
had with her passwords, none of those passwords affected any
of the voting equipment in Larimer County. Larimer County was
not affected at all. Weld County has dealt with the issue.
They did have a little effect from the Jenna Griswold debacle,
but Larimer County did not have any. Thank you Tina
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Harris for coming on the program. All right, pleasure to
have you here on the radio show. Quincy Jones has
passed away. He's fingering a lot of music throughout the years.
Worked with Sinatra, he worked with Michael Jackson, produced a
thriller album We Are the World, We Are the Children. Yeah,
all that stuff he did, all that, Yeah. Quincy Jones
(17:18):
died at ninety one years of the age. Rest in peace, everybody.
It's pre election day. Get your milk and cookies out,
Get ready to set them out before bedtime for Uncle
Sam to visit your house. Jimmy Lakey News Talk six
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Wow, can you believe the show's halfway over already? Zippity
doo das zippity day. It's moving right along. Isn't it
a pre election eve? Election eve? Do you set up
milk and cookies or anything for Uncle Sam tonight? I
don't know how the election eve works, but anyway we
get ready. If you haven't cast your ballots, feel free
to do show. And if you are going to send
(00:20):
other milk and cookies for Uncle Sam, do that. Or
Donald Trump, the ghost of Donald Trump, or the ghost
of Kamala Harris come visiting. However it works. Happy election
Eve and tomorrow it's all done, but the counting after
tomorrow about seven o'clock in the Mountain time zones. Good
to have you here on the show. Last hour, we
talked to Well County clerk and record at Carli Compass,
(00:41):
and she gave us a rundown on all things Weld
County and elections in election day and kind of what's
going on right now. I want to bring in Tina Harris.
She is a Well County clerking and recorder for Larimer County. Hello,
Larimer County, good morning, thanks for listening to the show.
Tina Harris on the hotline Weld count excuse me, Larimer
County clerk in record Tina, welcome the show.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Hey, great, hello, how are you?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I'm very very well. Is this a day? The next
couple of hours, the next couple of days? Do you
get any sleep? Does? How does this season of the
year compare with the rest of the year for the
clerk and recorder?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, you know, this is our fourth election in a year,
so this is our third election for twenty twenty four
and so if you're asking me if there's any fatigue involved, absolutely,
but we're still soldering on and we're really excited for
the You know, we have one day, ten hours and
(01:38):
fifty minutes left and we're counting that down. And please
know it doesn't stop at seven pm. There's still a
great deal of work that has to be done, but
it's like we're over the hump at that hour.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
That hour. Now, what's your guess, Carlie cops in Well
County that depending on how many today and tomorrow cast ballots,
I could really stow down the voting process because those
don't start getting processed until after seven o'clock tomorrow. What
is your estimate on when Larimer county numbers will be in.
Do you have any guests, how many have you already
kind of run through the system, and any guests on
(02:15):
how long it's going to take to get it all
wrapped up.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Sure, so right now we have a little over well
about two hundred and sixty nine thousand, five hundred and
eighty seven active voters. We've already received one hundred and
fifty three thousand and eight seventy seven, so about a
fifty seven percent turnout, And so that makes us pretty
excited because initially we were thinking that folks were not
(02:42):
going to really start voting until election day, and we
were anticipating maybe roughly around ninety thousand ballots to be
returned on election day. But as this as the turnout
continues to increase, those numbers actually decrease.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So it makes us very Larimer County is running well
ahead of the state, and I think the state wide
is sitting at about forty two percent of the voters
have voted. In twenty twenty, it was a seventy eight,
so you're about fifty percent of Larimer County. So Larimer
County is above the average state wide on people that
have already cast their votes. The state itself is running
way behind compared to twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And you know, I would say that it's pretty deceptive
at this moment because people run data at different times,
and so you might be looking at data from yesterday
and it hasn't been released yet for today. The reason
ours might look pretty high at this point is because
(03:41):
we posted to our dashboard, which is out there on
our website, so everybody has a visual of where we're at.
We posted at six fifty two this morning, so there
could just be a lapse in data and we might
actually be right in there with everybody else.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Tina Harrison, Larimer County's clerking Recorders on the hotline, you
mentioned your website own people to be able to know
if they're following the Larimer County election or they need
information any of that. What is the website that people
can go to in Larimer County to keep up with
everything the next twenty four to forty eight hours.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Sure, thanks for asking. It's vote that is the as
in victor ote dot Larimer dot gov. And please check
out our newly our dashboard because what it's doing is
it's actually it's the unofficial ballot return data. Take a
look at that. It even shows a voting method, what
(04:35):
has been returned by mail or through dropboxes versus in person.
I will say that we are a little higher than
normal are averaged and are in person voting. So we're
at two point eight percent right now who have voted
in person, and it usually hovers around one percent, So
we're a little high there, but that's okay. You know.
(04:58):
I encourage everybody to get their ballots in today if
you can. Don't wait until tomorrow, because, as you know,
life happens and sometimes that whatever that event is could
prevent you from getting your voice heard. So the deadline
is seven pm tomorrow. We must have your ballot at
(05:20):
the clerk's office or in a dropbox by seven pm.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Don't drop it into the post office, my friends, You've
waited too longs for that. Don't do it drop box.
If you want to know locations, even if you wanted
to be one of those people that vote in person,
or learn more about where your ballots at, or want
to vote, dot Larimer dot gov. Vote dot Larimer dot gov.
Tina Harris's my guess, Tina, A lot of folks the
last many years worry about voter security and election security.
(05:46):
What protocols are in place. Let's say because it's an
all mail in ballot, talk about somebody sends your ballot in.
Obviously there's a signature verification. There's no ID with that.
How confident and how does that signature verification work? And
what if something gets flagged in the system? Uh, to
give people confidence that hey, we're running a secure election
(06:06):
even though there's no voter ID required in a mail
in election.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Well, the voter I D required has happened before the
signature verification process. So you know, most people will register
to vote when they get their driver's license, right, get
their driver's license or their ID so or they will
fill out a form, a voter registration form. So verification
(06:31):
has already taken place, and that's really what sets us
up for success. So we capture those signatures and then
when we do our signature verification. You know, everything is
under chain of custody, so your ballot is never alone
with anyone. So chain of custody means that you know
they are when they're not attended, are you know, being
(06:53):
over seen by a bipartisan election judges. That means they're stealed.
They are in a container that is sealed, and then
you know, they go through the receiving process. We run
them through our system for signature, where we're capturing an
image of that signature. Those envelopes are not open until
(07:14):
we can verify that signature. If for whatever reason there
is a discrepancy, you'll get a cure letter from our
office and you have eight days after the election to
cure that signature. Everything that we do is under twenty
four to seven surveillance camera surveillance and so that you
know in those areas are you need key card access
(07:39):
to get them, So they're very secure areas of the
counting facility, and every judge goes through, and every employee
goes through a rigorous CPI checked background check because we
want to make sure that there's no fraud. No one's
been convicted or a fraud right, any type of fraudt
(08:02):
and it's not just go ahead.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I was going to say. The recent news, of course,
I'm sure you've been in the data with questions about it,
was the Jenna Griswold and her website, the website of
the Secretary of State's office had some passwords that were
evidently up there on the website and the state Governor
Polis and everybody has said, hey, we're dispatching all hands
on deck to make sure and go through the biosystems
of every machine that could have been compromised and or
(08:26):
had their passwords exposed. How did that affect Larimer County
when you got the news and did was were these
passwords anything involved with Larimer County? And what has been
the response?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Well, to ease everyone's mind, Larimer County was not impacted
by that. By the leaking or the release of the
voting system bios passwords. It affected you know, some Colorado counties,
but not Larimer County. Thanks to our proactive replacement of
our voting equipment in twenty twenty three, we were not
(09:02):
impacted by that at all. So our bios passwords were
not on that list.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
That is good to know. Tina Harris from Larimer County
is on the hotline. So Tina, you're telling everybody out there,
the voting return look good, but it's still time to
get your ballot in there and a confidence. You know,
after every election twenty sixteen, we had one side said
that Russia stole the election, and then in twenty twenty
it was all rigged. I always say that elections are
(09:33):
run on a local level and it's not like they're nationalized.
So how confident are you and knowing the internal workings
and how the sausage is made that when people say Russia, Russia, Russia,
or it's all rigged, rigged, rigged, does that kind of
make you? Are you wondering what world they're looking at
because you feel that confident in the security of Larimer County.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I do, But you know that's the narrative that's out
there right now. I'm not saying it's not true, you know.
You know, I'm not trying to tell everybody that they're wrong,
right But what I can say, specifically for Larimer County
is people need to remember that the folks that are
actually conducting this election are your friends, your family, and
(10:18):
your neighbors. These are judges, they work and bipartisan teams.
It would take a huge effort for something to nefarious
to happen. Our system is not connected to the Internet
in any way, and no remote access is even possible.
So you know, I am very confident that at the
end of the day and at the end of this election,
(10:40):
the results will be the results specifically here in Colorado
and in Laromer County.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
So tomorrow seven o'clock that's when I guess you've already
been able to do some signals of verification. So some
ballots have already been reviewed. Although that data has just
kind of stored away, I guess most it's secure. No
one knows what the results. So those pre counted ballots are.
And at seven o'clock you start kind of putting it
all together, and the first results that will come out
(11:06):
from Larimer County on your website vote dot Larimer dot
gov are going to be those early voters, those yes.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
So when we will do our first posting of the
unofficial results, you know, right around eight o'clock. One of
the reasons is because we've seen so many people in
our voting in person, chances are at seven pm, when
our polls closed, we may still have individuals voting, and
so we cannot release any results until after the polls
(11:36):
have closed and people have are finished voting.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
So you want to make sure rather than rather that
you could release something earlier. But you're like, now, let's
hold off, let's make sure everybody. Let's not try to
dissuade them or persuade them, to go. Let's just let
them get the voting process then release it. That makes
a little bit of sense. I'm guessing that's kind of
the motivation is you want people to vote, if they're
in line, vote and don't be persuaded by some results
that came out from from your county.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Or your district, right exactly. You know, I want people
to be confident in their voting and I don't want
there to be any distractions.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
A lot of people are worried and my listeners and
you've probably have heard this as well. The voter roles,
we have easy registration. I know there was a mistake
by the Secretary of State's office a few years ago
telling people that were not legal to vote to actually vote.
What is the process of making sure that the people
on the voter roles and the people that are returning
(12:32):
their ballots that they're actually supposed to be returning a ballot.
Is there something that the county can do or is
involved in making sure that the correct people are voting?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Well? First of all, first off, we are very very
good at maintaining our voter roles. You know, we can't
do it all by ourselves, right, So we get information,
we get reports and data from many organizations throughout the state,
whether it's the Department of Revenue, the Department of Corrections,
vital statistics. We get all of that and so we
(13:05):
are very good at keeping our voter rolls up to date. However,
you know, we can only do so much if we
don't have individuals actually notifying us that they have moved
and updating their address. There will be some discrepancies, and
so we need everyone's help. This is a team effort.
As far as people who vote that are not eligible
(13:27):
to vote, those are caught pretty We don't have anything
on the inside like Larimer County, but we do. The
state does do. They're the ones that maintain and they
are the ones that verify the eligibility. So eligibility requires
that you be a US citizen, you be eighteen years
(13:49):
of AIDS or older, and you've lived in the county
or in Colorado for twenty two days. All right.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
If somebody's got their ballad right now and they haven't
turned it in, they don't want to mail it, they
need to go to a drop box or a location
to drop it. Those can be founded vote dot Larimer
dot gov. And if somebody does want to vote in
person they don't want to, where do they find that
and do they have to take the ballot they received
the mail and vote on that or do they get
(14:16):
a separate ballot when they go to the in person location.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
To do either one. We have eight new We have
eight more sites opening today, so Larimer County will have
twenty VSPCS voting service and polling centers open across the
county so that it's a little more convenient. People don't
have to drive real far to get to a v SPC.
If they want to vote their mail ballot that they
(14:41):
received in the mail, they can drop it either at
one of those VSPC locations or in a drop box
that's near them. That information is out there on our
website at the vote dot Larmer dot gov, and so
I encourage anybody everyone to look at that. They have
it now. If they don't want to vote that mail
(15:03):
ballot that they received in the mail, that's okay. They
can come into a vote center and request an in
person ballot, and what that will do is void that
mail ballot so that it's no longer active, and then
we will give them a mail or a in person
ballot to vote there in the vote center, but they
(15:23):
can't leave with that ballot. They would have to vote
it and drop it there.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I know somebody's going to ask me if I don't
ask this question. So if somebody comes in and says, listen,
I want to pick up a ballot here and vote,
is there an ID check or you just take their
word for it, somebody's going to ask me. You better
ask that question. If somebody shows up an in person
voting center it says, I don't want to vote my
mail ballot, please give me another one. Here's my name.
How do you know that that's that person?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, so if you choose to vote in person, you
do have ideas required You have to bring that in
because there will be no signature verification at that point.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Gotcha, Tina Harris. I appreciate your time. Vote dot Larimer
dot gov. Vote dot Larimer gov. Get your vote in
Larimer County. Vote vote dot Larimer dot gov. Tina, I
appreciate it. Have we covered it all? I think we
covered it pretty well.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I think so too, And Jimmy, I appreciate you asking
me on today.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
You got it. Thanks Tina Harris, Larimer County Clerk and Recorder,
and notice that I patted myself on the hind end
and said, I thought I did a pretty good job,
and she did a great job answering all the questions.
Vote dot Larimer dot gov. Again, I think it's important
that you recognize that whether your person wins or loses,
in Colorado, our votes are elections are handled by local officials.
(16:36):
And also Larimer County please needs to know that you
just heard there that the Jenny Griswold problem that she
had with her passwords, none of those passwords affected any
of the voting equipment in Larimer County. Larimer County was
not affected at all. Weld County has dealt with the issue.
They did have a little effect from the Jenna Griswold debacle,
but Larimer County did not have any. Thank you Tina
(16:57):
Harris for coming on the program. All right, pleasure to
have you here on the radio show. Quincy Jones has
passed away. He's fingering a lot of music throughout the years.
Worked with Sinatra, he worked with Michael Jackson, produced a
thriller album We Are the World, We Are the Children. Yeah,
all that stuff he did, all that, Yeah. Quincy Jones
(17:18):
died at ninety one years of the age. Rest in peace, everybody.
It's pre election day. Get your milk and cookies out,
Get ready to set them out before bedtime for Uncle
Sam to visit your house. Jimmy Lakey News Talk six
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