{"id":806194,"date":"2020-04-08T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=381537"},"modified":"2020-04-08T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T20:00:00","slug":"municipal-election-turnout-not-significantly-impacted-by-coronavirus-shutdown-in-summit-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/municipal-election-turnout-not-significantly-impacted-by-coronavirus-shutdown-in-summit-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Municipal election turnout not significantly impacted by coronavirus shutdown in Summit County"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Frisco resident returns her ballot for the Tuesday, April 7, municipal elections at the Frisco Town Hall.<\/strong>
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Despite health concerns associated with COVID-19, Tuesday\u2019s municipal elections did not suffer in turnout numbers. Since the elections were primarily done by mail-in or drop-off ballots, there was minimal contact throughout the voting process.<\/p>\n

In 2020, Breckenridge received ballots from about 31% of registered voters compared with 27% in 2016. While Blue River saw 20 more ballots returned in 2020 versus 2018, due to an increase in registered voters, overall turnout went from 25% down to about 23%. Frisco reported an election turnout of about 28% for 2020. In 2018, Frisco saw about a 35% turnout rate.<\/p>\n

To keep election judges healthy, additional social distancing and sanitation measures were put in place. Breckenridge Town Clerk Helen Cospolich reported that judges were spread out in a large room, wore provided gloves and masks and used hand sanitizer and wipes throughout the day. Different parts of the vote-counting process took place in different rooms to ensure adequate spacing. <\/p>\n

\u201cMaintaining the physical spacing of the judges was important, but it meant that moving ballots through the process took a little longer than normal,\u201d Cospolich wrote in an email. \u201cSafety and accuracy were our top priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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