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ELECTION NEWS:

Ballots have been sent out! Have you returned your voted ballot back to the County Clerk’s Office? The earlier ballots are returned, the earlier election night results can be released. If you have not received a ballot you can check your mailing address on line at www.govotecolorado.com or call the County Clerk’s Office for a replacement ballot at 719-336-8011.

Make sure you have postage and signed the back of your return envelope when mailing your voted ballot back to the County Clerk’s Office through the USPS.

We highly recommend that you:

• Drop your ballot off at the Prowers County Clerk & Recorder’s Office,
• 301 S. Main St., Ste. 210, Lamar, CO.
• Use the drive by/walk up ballot drop box located in the parking lot east side of the County Courthouse which is open 24/7 or use the ballot drop box inside the courthouse sitting on the table at the front entrance of the security door.
• Get any ballot replacements prior to October 25, 2019.   REMEMBER: Postmarks dates do not count. Your ballot must be in the possession of the Prowers County Clerk & Recorder by 7:00 P.M., November 5, 2019. Check your mail-in ballot status on line: Unofficial election results will be posted Election night, November 5, 2019 after 8:30 p.m., when ballot tabulating is complete on the Prowers County website at: www.prowerscounty.net and on the Secretary of State’s website-election night reporting.
• ELECTION RESULTS:
• If you would like to verify that your ballot was received by our office you can log onto www.govotecolorado.com or you can contact our office directly at (719) 336-8011.

• Saturday, November 2, 2019: Prowers County Clerk & Recorder’s Office will be open 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., for return of mail-in ballots; issue replacement ballots; register to vote; update address; or update your name.    

• Tuesday, November 5, 2019: ELECTION DAY (Prowers County Clerk and Recorder’s Office) will open at 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., 301 S. Main Street, Suite 210, Lamar, CO.

• ELECTION OFFENSES:

• C.R.S. 1-13-106 Forgery- Any person who falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any ballot before or after it has been cast, or who forges any name of a person as a signer or witness to a petition or nomination paper, or who forges any letter of acceptance, declination, or withdrawal, or who forges the name of a registered elector to a voter’s mail-in or mail ballot commits forgery which is a class five 5 felony.
• C.R.S. 1-13-112 Offenses relating to mail ballots – Any person who, by use of force or other means, unduly influences an elector to vote in any particular manner or to refrain from voting, or who falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any mail ballot before or after it has been cast, or who destroys, defaces, mutilates, or tampers with such a ballot shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than eighteen months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Our Election Department can be reached at (719) 336-8011 for voter and election questions or by e-mailing at election@prowerscounty.net. “Like” our Facebook page at Prowers County Clerk & Recorder.