When Colorado Put Polling Places Inside All Its Jails, Voter Turnout Soared

When Colorado Put Polling Places Inside All Its Jails, Voter Turnout Soared

This article was originally published by Bolts, a nonprofit publication that covers criminal justice and voting rights in local governments. Tiffany Lee, the county clerk and top elections official in southwestern Colorado’s La Plata County, wasn’t sold at first on the state’s new law requiring every jail to create an in-person polling place for incarcerated voters. Lee, who was elected as a Republican but is now unaffiliated, said she and the l…