This is how we got here
Voided ballots are verified at the Boulder County Clerk and Recorder’s office on Oct. 15.
A decade-and-a-half before the Washington Post called Colorado the “safest” place to cast a ballot – a compliment echoed by nonpartisan election experts – Neal McBurnett of Boulder spent the evening of Nov. 5, 2002, as an election judge.
He did not like what he saw. Not one bit.
“I was nervous,” McBurnett said from his north Boulder living room on a sunny October afternoon. “They were using computers to count and report our votes. And I saw no one paying attention to the paper ballots that people had marked their choices on.”
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