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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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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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Election costs breakdown: Mail-in versus precinct voting

August 1st, 2011, 9:00 am by

Sunday’s story about whether next year’s primary should be an all mail-in ballot or traditional polling place format generated several interesting comments, including this from Neil Talbott: “A mail-in ballot is perfectly acceptable, especially if it saves the county $71,000 in election costs, IF you can assure citizens that the vote count is accurate and verifiable.”

El  Paso County Clerk and Recorder Wayne Williams ran on a platform of “protecting voter  integrity” last fall when he was running for the office, so we’ll wait for his reply to a letter Talbott sent, asking what assurance the public has that the mail-in ballots are counted accurately, verification of ballot counts and other protective measures.

Several Colorado counties, including nearby Teller County, had problems with voter registration fraud in 2004 — 18 of the state’s 64 counties had registration rates greater than their voting-age populations, for example, which created exaggerated voter rolls.

 Some readers also asked for a breakdown of the estimated costs of next June’s primary election. Here they are, from the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Office:

Mail Ballot: Ballot printing, mailing, postage: $295,560

Polling Place: $234,862

Mail Ballot: Election Judges/Personnel: $120,730

Polling Place: $376,600

Mail Ballot: Three Ballot-on-Demand Printers: $61,500

Polling Place: $0.00

Mail Ballot: Judges’ Materials: $0.00

Polling Place: $22,650

Mail Ballot: Election Printing and Supplies: $4,500

Polling Place: $31,700

Mail Ballot: Info cards mailed to unaffiliated voters: $69,520

Polling Place: $0.00

Mail Ballot: Other: $41,620

Polling Place: $7,700

 TOTAL: Mail Ballot: $593,430

             Polling Place: $664,512

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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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