At least a few false message votes were submitted and found in Mesa County, according to the Colorado Secretary of State’s business. According to a report from CBS News, three of these votes were counted and could not be taken out of the final count.
According to Just The News, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold explained that the votes were forged and forged before the expected citizens received them at a press event on Thursday. ” The votes were filled out, the return letters were signed, they were finally returned to a USPS blue field, so that’s a post box, not a poll cut box”, Griswold said. During the unique identification process, the forgery was found.
The secretary of state’s office claimed earlier this week that it was aware of the false vote. Although most of the votes were flagged before being counted, four first passed personal identification. In two instances, voters were asked to treat their ballots, which resulted in one vote contacting Mesa County officials to say they had never received or submitted their vote in time.
According to Griswold, the voter contacted Mesa County to let them know they had hardly cast their ballot and had not received it. Also, another uninvolved voting received a message via the BallotTrax program indicating that their vote had been received by the state secretary despite not having voted.
The Mesa County clerk’s later investigation revealed that some of the fraudulent ballots were signed by the same person and that some of them were from close-by locations. The city counsel is currently looking into the matter and is conducting a criminal investigation.
” Colorado’s votes are protected and secure”, Griswold reassured citizens in a statement. She emphasized that the country’s strong vote security measures, including personal verification, ballot tracking, and the healing process, enabled officials to immediately identify the intended fraud. Every qualified Colorado vote will be able to speak out in favor of this poll, she added.
The legal investigation into the defrauded vote is ongoing, and more facts are anticipated as it progresses.