WEEK OF FEBRUARY 22, 2024
VOLUME 22 | ISSUE 11
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BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
At a town hall meeting, a woman told Douglas County’s top election official she doesn’t feel confident that elections will turn out fair. “People lie. People cheat,” she said, adding: “I just feel that it’s very sad to see that there is no way we can guarantee fair elections.” The woman wasn’t the only one who expressed doubts about the possibility of voter fraud at the event where the county took questions in person and by phone. Others worried that fraudsters could vote more than once, that they could turn in ballots for dead people, that voting machines aren’t secure and more. But Sheri Davis, the Douglas County clerk and recorder who oversees elections, sought to ease those fears, saying that safeguards are in place locally. “We do go through so many processes to update our voter registration database,” Davis said at the event in February, just days before ballots for the 2024 presidential primary election started hitting mailboxes. Lora Thomas, one of the county’s three elected leaders, told listeners she has taken tours of the elections office. “I’ve known Clerk Sheri Davis for decades,” said Thomas, a Republican who represents a largely conservative county. Jack Twite, another high-level county election official, told the crowd that the elections office has a “dedicated batch of election professionals serving you in Douglas SEE SECURITY, P8
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A ballot drop box sits Feb. 14 in Highlands Ranch outside Douglas County’s parks and trails administration building. PHOTO BY ELLIS ARNOLD
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