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Citizens Service Center closed

June 27th, 2012, 4:15 am by

The following is a press release from the El Paso Clerk & Recorder’s office. The Citizens Service Center is closed until further notice…

Due to the Waldo Canyon mandatory fire evacuations the El Paso County Clerk & Recorder’s Office at Citizens Services Center (1675 W. Garden of the Gods Rd) will be closed until further notice. All other branch offices will remain open to serve our citizens. Staff has been redeployed to our other offices.

 

The Election Department will be closed tomorrow but all other departments will be open and serving customers beginning at 8:00 a.m.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

 

The Clerk & Recorder branch offices are as follows:

  • North Office-Union and Research
  • Southeast-Powers and Airport
  • Downtown at Centennial Hall-Cascade and Vermijo
  • Clerk to the Board will be functioning out of the Centennial Hall Auditorium

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Don’t miss voting in primary elections, check registration deadlines

May 18th, 2012, 2:35 pm by

Friday is the deadline for affiliated voters in El Paso County to change their political party affiliation in order to vote in a June 26 primary election. Primary elections are being conducted for the Republican, Democrat and American Constitution parties.

Voter registration deadline is May 29, and a party must also be declared to vote in a primary. Eligible voters must have El Paso County residency by May 27.

Ballots will be mailed June 4 to active and inactive affiliated voters of the three parties conducting primary elections.

Unaffiliated voters have until June 19 to declare a party affiliation via online, mail, fax or email and receive a mail ballot. After June 19, voters must appear in person at one of the El Paso County Clerk’s four offices to declare a party affiliation and be eligible to vote in that primary. No ballots will be mailed after June 19.

Locations for the four Clerk & Recorder’s offices are:

  • Citizens Service Center (West), 1675 W. Garden of the Gods Rd.
  • Centennial Hall (Downtown), 200 S. Cascade Ave
  • Union Town Center (North), 8830 N. Union Blvd.
  • Powers (East), 5650 Industrial Pl. (Airport and Powers)

“Our office wants to ensure that every eligible elector is provided the opportunity to case a ballot in this year’s primary election,” said county Clerk & Recorder Wayne Williams. “Many of the races in El Paso County will be decided by the primary election, as many of the candidates do not face an opponent in the general election.”

 

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Ballots mailed to overseas military, absentee voters

May 11th, 2012, 3:03 pm by

Ballots for the June 26 primary elections were mailed to 1,350 overseas military personnel and absentee voters Friday by the El Paso County Clerk & Recorder’s Election Department.

 

 

By law, ballots must be in the mail no later than the 45th day before the primary. Overseas military and citizens are allowed an additional eight days after the election for the clerk’s office to receive their ballot, if their ballot is postmarked by election day.

 
Military and overseas voters can also select to receive their ballots by email, online transmission or fax. Online transmission was introduced in 2010 and allows military and overseas voters to receive an online incrypted link to their ballot. They are able to print their ballot and necessary materials to return their ballot by mail.

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Remodeled Southeast Branch of DMV complete

May 11th, 2012, 2:09 pm by

Expanded service and a spacious waiting area will greet customers Wednesday when the upper level of the Southeast Branch Motor Vehicle Office reopens 17 days ahead of schedule.

 

Newly remodeled upper level

 

The remodeling added a third counter for driver’s license service plus a larger and more

comfortable waiting area.

 
The reconfiguration of the Southeast Branch allows flexibility for more counters to be added if needed.

 
A portion of the upper level office will also be used as an Early Voting site for the November election.

 
The Southeast Branch, open from 8 .am. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, is at 5650 Industrial Place, near the intersection of Powers and Airport.

 

Previous smaller waiting area

The Southeast Branch is the busiest of the four Motor Vehicle offices offered in El Paso County. The other three locations are the main office at Citizens Service Center, 1675 W. Garden of the Gods Rd.; downtown at Centennial Hall, 200 S. Cascade; and north at Union Town Center, 8830 N. Union Blvd.

 

For more information, go to http://car.elpasoco.com/motorvehicle.

 

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Oregon staff studying Citizens Service Center

May 1st, 2012, 1:54 pm by

Like a prize steer at the county fair, the Citizens Service Center is on display to visitors this week.

A group from Jackson County, Ore., is in town to see what they can learn about El Paso County’s relatively new Citizens Service Center, 1675 W. Garden of the Gods.

“The biggest city in their county is Medford and they bought an old post office building, about 80,000 square feet, to consolidate their offices like we did,” said El Paso County Commissioner Sallie Clark. “Some staff from their county is studying how we did our one-stop shopping at CSC. They want to see how our layout works, how we combined most everything under one roof to create more efficiency.”

The county moved several offices that were scattered around town to CSC. Under that one big roof are Department of Human Services, Pikes Peak Workforce Center, El Paso County Public Health and the offices of the county Clerk, Treasurer and Assessor, along with a Motor Vehicle office.

“I think it’s working well,” Clark said, “especially if you don’t have a car. Everything is in one place so it can save time and effort.”

 

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New motor vehicle office needs customers

October 13th, 2011, 9:29 am by

 

Branch offices often have long wait times but not many people have discovered the new main office on Garden of the Gods Road.

Don’t have much time to renew your driver’s license or get license plates for your car?

The main headquarters of the Motor Vehicle Division, which is part of the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s Office, reopened Tuesday at its new location, a former Intel building at 1675 W. Garden of the Gods Road.

But on Wednesday afternoon, there were hardly any customers at the new office. And a quick look at “real-time” waits at the three branch offices that offer the same services on a smaller scale showed wait times up to more than an hour.

Many motor vehicle division transactions also can be done online. Click here to go to the motor vehicle website.

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Local election specialist to study Albanian election

May 3rd, 2011, 1:10 pm by

Emily Rome, who works as an election specialist in the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s Office, left for the Republic of Albania Tuesday, May 3, and will spend eight days there, studying the election process in the city of Tirana.

Rome took a temporary leave of absence from her job to volunteer with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a United Nations-chartered agency. Rome and another observer will monitor the city’s entire election, from the opening of the voting centers to ballot counting and tabulating the results.

Clerk and Recorder Wayne Williams said he hopes Rome brings back insights from the emerging democracy’s electoral process that can be applied in next year’s presidential election here.

Last year, Rome observed the presidential election in Ukraine, then later returned to watch the run-off election.

“Traveling to these foreign countries and seeing people’s struggles and challenges all to be able to cast a ballot in a newly free society is an unbelievable experience,” she said. In Ukraine, she saw elderly women and men climb steep staircases and stand in line in subzero temperatures to cast their ballots.

Rome will blog about her trip at the Clerk and Recorder Office’s website: http://car.elpasoco.com.

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City elections could be different next time around

April 5th, 2011, 3:44 pm by

  In a municipal election, like the one being held today, leadership at the city of Colorado Springs independently gets to choose who conducts the election. The city typically has decided to contract with a private entity and do some of the work in-house.

But it could be a different story next time a city election rolls around.

El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Wayne Williams, who took office in December, said Tuesday that he is open to playing a “more active role” in city elections. His office runs all other elections, including county-coordinated ballots and general elections.

“It depends on the new mayor and city council, but I’d be surprised if this wasn’t something we looked at more of sharing services,” he said.

 His office did provide voter registration lists and signature verification for the April 5 city election.

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Wait times now available for motor vehicle offices

March 16th, 2011, 3:44 pm by

Want to know how long it’s going to take you to renew your driver’s license or get your car titled or get new tags for your license plates?

El Paso County’s Motor Vehicle Department has been working on not only decreasing the time it takes for customers to receive basic services but also letting customers know what they’re facing, in terms of wait times.

Check out http://epcclerk.com/internetWT/webinfopageV2.aspx?unitid=0.

The number presented is the longest someone currently has been waiting at the three motor vehicle locations, downtown at Centennial Hall, 200 S. Cascade Ave.; the Powers office at the southeast corner of Powers Boulevard and Airport Road; and at Union Town Center, 8830 N. Union Blvd.

If a location does not appear, there is no real-time wait, said Tony Anderson, manager of the Motor Vehicle Department, which is an office of the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder.

Refining processes and procedures has decreased wait times from an average of 22 minutes in 2009 to today’s average of 8 minutes, he said.

It takes longer, though, on the offices’ busiest days: Fridays and the last days of the month, he said.

Current wait times soon will be posted in all offices on monitors at greeter stations.

“It’s about providing more information to the public,” Anderson said. “We’ve been focusing on service time and  service levels.”

The offices also are gearing up to accept credit and debit cards, beginning April 4. Currently, only cash or check are accepted to pay for transactions at any clerk and recorder offices.

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