(COLORADO SPRINGS) — The deadline for Colorado Springs’ Special election is coming up on Tuesday, June 17.
All Ballots are due by 7.p.m. on Tuesday.
“The most important thing is if you want to have a voice. We all know everybody has an opinion because we hear it all the time, right? So, the way to make it really heard is to vote that ballot,” said Sarah Johnson, the City Clerk for Colorado Springs.
There is only one question on this ballot, and that is whether to give the go-ahead to the city to approve the Karman Line annexation, which would add 1,800 acres of land west of Schriever Space Force Base. The annexation has plans to have 6,5000 home built on the new land.
The deadline for mail-in ballots has passed, but you can still drop yours off at any of the City’s drop box locations. You can also track the ballot counts as they come in on the City’s website.
Some in the community have reported that their ballot envelope came pre-sealed. The city thinks that the humid weather lately may have caused the glue to melt. Officials recommend taping the envelope shut or mailing it in an envelope of your own, you just need to make sure that you sign the back so they can verify that it is your ballot.
“We verify signatures. That’s how we know that you actually cast that ballot, and that’s how we do it. It’s based upon the signature on your voter registration file, which could be the last time you got your driver’s license… It can be the last time you voted,” Johnson said. “There’s a series of signature images to compare to… So cutting up the envelope will have absolutely no effect to how we can verify that signature.”
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