DENVER — Ballots for the November election were put in the mail on Monday.
That means ballots will soon be processed by election workers, a process that you could watch online in Denver – until this election.
“We've discovered recently that there are significant threats to our elections personnel,” Denver Clerk and Recorder Paul Lopez said.
Nothing funny is going on. The video is still recorded and kept for 25 months, per state law.
Lopez has concerns for his election volunteers, workers and judges about threats by election conspiracy theorists.
“Threats against elections and poll workers are very real,” Lopez said. “It's something that we were going to do to protect the election system, but also to protect workers from getting doxxed or harassed or anything like that.”
Denver appears to be the last county to pull livestream video of election processes.
The livestream is a perk. The video is always recorded.
“The fact that we're livestreaming increases the risk of those threats and is reason for some of the harassment,” Lopez said. “I don't want to be in a point where we wait until something happens in order to do it.”
"A lot of those [conspiracy] theorists are here in El Paso County and they have applauded my move,” Republican El Paso County Clerk Steve Schleiker said.
Schleiker has debuted a livestream of the 24/7 cameras that record the 39 ballot drop boxes in and around Colorado Springs.
“Per Colorado statute, we have to keep this stuff for 25 months, but our records here, is we can maintain them in the cloud for up to 10 years,” Schleiker said.
Ballots from the drop boxes are collected by two election workers of opposing parties. That video, just like the video inside county election offices, is recorded and can be requested for public review.
"Embedding these videos out onto my website, for the citizens of El Paso County, is I'm now providing this information for free,” Schleiker said.
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