With less than two months until Election Day, Colorado officials are preparing to mail out ballots. Ballots will start going out on Oct. 11.
On National Voter Registration Day, Denver metro area clerks worked to spread factual information about the voting system.
According to the Denver Clerk and Recorder’s office, there are already 546,155 people registered to vote in the City and County of Denver. That’s compared to 520,447 at this time in 2020 and 477,611 in 2016.
“Young people are the future of this country and making sure that young people know how to register to vote and can participate in this election,” said Paul López, Denver Clerk and Recorder.
Clerks from Denver, Jefferson, and Douglas counties encouraged people to register to vote at Denver’s Auraria Campus on Tuesday and educated them about the process.
“In Colorado, your vote is secure,” López said. “We test our equipment before the election, and we do an audit after. Every step of the way, your ballot is handled by a bipartisan team. We count every single vote, and we can prove it.”