Counting votes in a pandemic is an even more deliberate process
July 1, 2020

Patricia Logan
Election judges in Boulder County had to sanitize all surfaces after each person checked in and voted.
Counting votes is a careful process to start with, but in a pandemic there is more than politics at stake. Health concerns over the coronavirus changed the look and procedures of in-person voting and behind-the-scenes processing during the primary election. New safety protocols and robust voter participation have added to the workload of approximately 100 people who work on elections for the Bo...
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