• Bipartisan teams successfully completed the Boulder County portion of the statewide Risk-Limiting Audit with zero discrepancies.
• The 2024 Primary Election is now certified, and the final official results are now available at BoulderCountyVotes.gov.

Boulder County, CO. – The final official results from Boulder County’s 2024 Statewide Primary Election are now available at www.BoulderCountyVotes.gov. Turnout by party is the following:

	Accepted Ballots	Registered Voters	Turnout Percentage
Democratic Party	36,119	88,414	40.85%
Republican Party	6,950	24,015	28.94%
Unaffiliated Voters	22,937	106,565	21.52%
Total	66,006	218,994	30.14%

The final official results include the Statement of Votes, a document that shows precinct-by-precinct results for each contest. The Statement of Votes will be forwarded to the Colorado Secretary of State’s office as part of the election closeout process.

Elections staff and the party appointed Audit Board, composed of four republican representatives and four democratic representatives, successfully completed the Boulder County portion of the statewide risk-limiting audit (July 9).

This is a post-election test that provides citizens with evidence that election results tabulated by our voting system reflect the actual votes cast by voters. The process reviews how a ballot’s votes were captured at the time it was processed by our voting system by comparing the actual physical ballots with their digital tallies captured at the time of processing. To perform the audit, the Secretary of State’s office assigns a random sampling of the exact ballots you must review out of all the ballots cast in an election. For this Primary Election, Boulder County Elections was assigned 687 ballots to audit. The number of ballots audited and the contest is determined by the Secretary of State and is depended on the closest of contests and voter turnout.

Elections staff also completed the reconciliation process. This process provides the evidence for the Canvass Board to certify that the number of votes counted is equal to or less than the number of ballots cast and that the number of ballots cast is equal to or less than the number of eligible voters. The Reconciliation Report is also available online.

This year’s Canvass Board consisted of Boulder County Clerk Molly Fitzpatrick and party representatives from the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. Pat Feeser represented the Democratic Party. John Barrett represented the Republican Party. To certify the election, the majority of the Canvass Board must vote to certify.

Thursday afternoon via a remote conference, the majority of the Canvass Board certified the election results. Barrett representing the Republican party, declined to sign the documentation citing what he believes are “election vulnerabilities,” and specifically mentioning drop boxes and the signature verification process.

Boulder County’s 24-hour mail ballot drop boxes meet all the required state statute security measures including the requirement that we have recorded video surveillance taken 24-hours per day when they are open to receive ballots. Bipartisan teams of election judges pick up the mail ballots and every ballot is signature verified. Boulder County has never received reports of or had evidence of drop boxes being tampered with. Nor have we had any reports or claims from voters of their of ballots being counted (signature verified) incorrectly.

These objections are outside the scope of the duty of the Canvass Board. His decision not to sign does not impact the certification. The canvass documents, audit documentation, and the Statement of Votes are available at www.BoulderCountyVotes.gov