Election judges process primary election ballots at the Denver Elections Division offices on June 28, 2022. (Quentin Young/Colorado Newsline)
While ballots don’t get mailed to Colorado voters until Oct. 11, county clerks were permitted to start handing out ballots to eligible voters as of Sept. 21.
Clerks aren’t required to provide ballots to eligible voters until Oct. 4, but some Colorado counties got an early start. Sept. 21 was also the last day a clerk could send ballots to overseas and military overs.
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In Denver, the clerk’s office has handed out about 150 ballots so far, spokesperson Mikayla Ortega said. Because of staffing issues in 2020, the office did not hand out ballots early for the election that year. Ortega said the office has already received over 600 ballots from overseas and military voters so far, which is double what Denver received in the first week in 2020.
El Paso County Clerk Steve Schleiker said that as of Friday morning his office had issued 253 “over-the-counter” ballots.