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What’s Taking so Long to Count ‘Cured’ Ballots in Lauren Boebert’s Race? Here Ya Go

As the final pieces of the red-wave-that-wasn’t 2022 midterms fall into place, one race that curiously remains undecided five days after the election — albeit now anti-climatic — is the race in Colorado’s 3rd District between Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert and her Democrat challenger, Democrat Adam Frisch.

As of Tuesday, as reported by Newsmax, Boebert led Frisch by 1,122 votes with 95 percent of the votes counted, leaving roughly 5,000 votes still to be counted. So what’s the big deal, you ask? So did I — so I went in search of anything even close to a legitimate reason.

According to election officials in the Democrat-controlled Boulder State, the deadline for ballots to be “cured” is 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, which suggested final election results won’t be known until Thursday or Friday.

‘Cured’ Ballots?

According to Ballotpedia, a “cure period” is the time allowed for absentee and mail-in ballots to be verified and counted:

Absentee/mail-in ballots must meet a variety of state requirements to be verified and counted.

All 50 states require voters to provide valid signatures on their absentee/mail-in ballot return documents. In the event of a missing signature or a discrepancy in signature matching, 24 states require officials to notify voters and allow voters to correct signature errors through a process called ballot curing.

Ballot curing is a two-part process that involves notification and correction. States that do not have a ballot curing process do not count ballots with missing or mismatched signatures.

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