Arapahoe County employee Joe Barela centers the mail-in ballots on one of the county’s three counting machines about 3 p.m. Nov. 4. The county began processing mail-in ballots 10 days ago, including running them through the machine that records the ballot data, but that data is protected and unavailable until 7 p.m. on election day. About 175,000 mail-in ballots had been received by Nov. 3 and there are around-the-clock shifts processing them. Each of the machines can count 400 ballots a minute and the goal was to have all the mail-in ballots counted by 7 p.m. election day. Photo by Tom Munds
A full count
