2007 City of Boulder Election Results

Turnout Estimates for City of Boulder Special Election

We will be giving daily updates for the City of Boulder Special Election from now through Election Day, July 10^th.

The County Clerk & Recorder will post the initial election results at 7pm, Tuesday, July 10th, on our web site. This will be updated regularly, however, all election results are unofficial until the election has been certified on or before July 24th.

July 23 Update

The Boulder County Clerk and Recorders Office has signed off on the City of Boulder special election. The election will be officially certified at the July 24th City Council meeting.
The one outstanding issue regarding a misread MBB (mobile ballot box) card has been researched. The error was caused by a faulty USB port on one of the scanning computers.

July 12 Update

The preliminary canvass and audit took place today. Both were successful. The hand count totals matched the machine totals. All returned ballots were accounted for and tabulated.

The reason this was the preliminary canvass is that voters who didn't sign their ballots have 8 days to come in and sign their ballot. If they do so in that time frame, their ballot will be counted. We have 108 envelopes with no signature. All voters who failed to complete this step have been sent a letter. Those that we were able to find a phone number were called in addition to the letter.

We are continuing to look into what caused the mobile ballot box problem on Tuesday evening. A mobile ballot box is basically a proprietary memory stick. It is used to transfer the scanned ballot images to the tally machine. Processing and tallying of votes are separated for added security. On Tuesday evening when we went to tally ballots scanned from one of our systems, the tally program was unable to read the mobile ballot box. We then had to rescan the ballots.

For Monday, July 9th, 2007

The elections office received another 750 ballots in the mail today.
Unofficial results, 1st posting: Tuesday at 7pm, on this site.

For Friday, July 06, 2007

The elections office received another 529 ballots in the mail today. We estimate 400 ballots have been hand delivered to our office.
If you haven’t received your ballot or you need a replacement ballot, please contact our office at 303-413-7740.

For Thursday, July 05, 2007

§ During the machine verification process, what appeared to be a photocopied ballot was discovered. The matter has been turned over to the Police department.

“The good news out of this is that it shows that the system works,” said
County Clerk and Recorder, Hillary Hall. “We also want people to know we

take voter fraud very seriously and will prosecute the matter to the full

extent of the law.”

The elections office received another 419 ballots in the mail today.
Signature verification and envelope opening continued.
If you haven’t received your ballot or you need a replacement ballot, please contact our office at 303-413-7740.

For Wednesday, July 4, 2007- Offices Closed- Have a great 4^th of July.

For Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Today is the last day to request a replacement ballot to be sent to you by mail.
At this time we have received 6135 ballots.
791 (correct number, previous number a typo) ballots were reissued to CU and returned to our office as undeliverable.
As allowed by Colorado Revised Statute, we began scanning ballots.
If you haven’t received your ballot, please call the Boulder County Election’s office at 303-413-7740 and request a replacement.

We will be off tomorrow to celebrate our country's birthday. Look for our next update on Thursday, July 5, 2007