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GOVERNMENT continued from page 6 MAIL BALLOTS Ballots will be mailed beginning October 8 to active registered voters who live in Greenwood Village. If you have not received a ballot by October 25, please call Arapahoe County Elections at 303-795-4511 to update your registration and request one be mailed to you. Ballots will not be mailed after October 25. Ballots are not forwarded by the U.S. Postal Service. ABSENTEE MAIL BALLOTS If you will be out of town and unable to receive your ballot at your registered address you may change your address by completing the “Change in Voter Registration Information” form from Arapahoe County. The form is online at www.arapahoevotes.com or you may vote early at a Voter Service and Polling Center beginning October 25, 2021. VOTER SERVICE AND POLLING CENTERS Voter Service and Polling Centers will open eight days (October 25, 2021) prior to and including Election Day, except for Sunday October 31, 2021. Voters will be able to drop off their mail ballots, register to vote or cast their vote in person at a Voter Service and Polling Center (VSPC). A list of VSPC is available online at www.greenwoodvillage.com. Greenwood Village City Hall has a 24 hour/7 day drop off box in the east parking lot to accept mail ballots. To find the nearest drop-off ballot box to you, visit arapahoevotes.com. CURBSIDE BALLOT PICKUP Arapahoe County is offering again this year curbside services by reservation. Services are available at the Arapahoe County 24-HOUR BALLOT BOX In collaboration with Arapahoe County, the City of Greenwood Village has made available a drive-up 24-hour ballot box. This 24-hour ballot box will better serve the Village’s voter’s access to drop-off their ballots during our Elections. The Ballot box will be monitored by video security surveillance recording system; and is located at Greenwood Village City Hall near the east end of the main parking lot located at 6060 S. Quebec St., Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111. There will be no ballot box inside City Hall to accept ballots. Arapahoe County has 34 ballot boxes through-out the county which helps make casting a ballot available around the clock. To view a list of locations, visit https://www.arapahoevotes.com/ballot-drop-locations. Administration office, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, CO 80120. Please call 303-795-4511 to make a reservation. For additional information regarding candidates or the Village’s Regular Municipal Election, please call the Election line at 303-804-4113. GV Ballot Track is a free service for Arapahoe County voters that can send you notifications by text message, phone call or email when your ballot has been sent and received by your Elections Division. If you prefer not to receive messages, you can log in to Ballot Track during any election to check the status of your ballot. Sign up for a free account today at https://arapahoe.ballottrax.net/voter/login#/ Why Use Ballot Track? All active registered voters in Colorado will now receive a mail ballot in every election. You can return your ballot by mail, or deliver it to one of our convenient dropoff locations in Arapahoe County. No matter how you return your ballot, Ballot Track will let you know when it has been mailed to you and safely received for counting! How does Ballot Track know where my ballot is? Your ballot envelope is printed with unique bar codes, which are scanned when the ballot is mailed to you by the U.S. Postal Service, picked up by your mail carrier, received by our Elections Facility in Littleton, or if the ballot was returned as undeliverable by the Postal Service. These intelligent bar codes allow us to securely track your ballot each step of the way. How and when will Ballot Track notify me? If you sign up to receive a phone call, SMS text message or email, you will receive automated messages when your ballot is mailed to you, received by the Postal Service, and received by Arapahoe County Elections. You also would receive a message if your ballot is returned as undeliverable, or cannot be processed for some reason that requires your attention. If you prefer not to receive messages, you can log in to Ballot Track website during any election to check the status of your ballot. Is there a cost? Ballot Track is free for Arapahoe County voters! There’s no cost for your account or messages. However your phone carrier’s standard text message or voice rates may apply. How do I manage my account? Simply log in to Ballot Track at any time to change your preferences, turn off notifications or check the status of your ballot. For more information, please contact Arapahoe County Elections at 303-795-4511 or visit www.arapahoevotes.com. PG. 8 GV NEWSLETTER | OCTOBER 2021
GOVERNMENT ENSURING A SAFE community EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM — ARE YOU SIGNED UP? This past summer, on August 4, two alerts, coordinated through the Arapahoe County Office of Emergency Management (ACOEM) were activated on cell phones within an hour of each other — the first alert was regarding a water contamination issue in the City of Englewood, and the second alert was initiated by the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office about a suspect on the loose. It has come to the Village’s attention that some residents may have received both messages, while some only received one, and others may not have received any at all. Staff reached out to the ACOEM to get clarification on why this occurred to assure more residents receive emergency alerts in the future. The first alert was activated using the Integrated Public Alert Warning System (IPAWS), software that uses cell phones for notification. The ACOEM set parameters of the affected area within the City of Englewood to notify residents of the water issue; for reasons currently under investigation by software engineers, the alert went beyond the set parameters notifying residents outside Englewood. The ACOEM and the software provider are actively investigating the software issue. The ACOEM apologizes for any confusion and inconvenience this software glitch may have caused to those not affected by the boil order. The IPAWS messages come across like amber alerts do as a notification on your cell phone and is not saved in text history. It is cell tower based, so if you are far from home and your home is in the notification area you will not receive the alert. While there is no sign up required, receiving the alerts is a setting that residents can easily turn on/off in their notification preferences of your smart phone. Some have done this and therefore fail to receive messages. The second alert was activated by the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office using ArapAlert (Code Red) to cell phones which require a sign up and opt in by the user. It will come in as a text message or phone call from a phone number with prefixes, 866, 855, or 800. Text messages will come from 76127. This system is based on home or work addresses tied to your cell phones regardless of where your phone is when the alert is initiated. If you have not signed up through the ArapAlert website, then you did not receive this message. ArapAlert reaches numbers from two databases. One is the 911 database, which contains all listed and unlisted landlines in Arapahoe County. If you have a landline, it is automatically included in this database. The second database is made up of Comcast Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) numbers (if you have a bundled internet/phone/ television service you probably have a VoIP line), and email addresses owned by people who have opted-in to receive the calls. If you do or do not have a traditional landline phone, and would like to receive a text, email or cell phone call in addition to the call on your landline or Comcast phone, consider registering for this free service. Public safety agencies like the Greenwood Village Police Department use the ArapAlert system to warn residents, businesses, and visitors of danger and other important information. With ArapAlert, the agencies can call, text or email multiple individuals and businesses to warn of dangerous suspects, flood, fire, or chemical spills. To register, visit their website: https://ace911.colorado.gov/arapalert ArapAlert also has an emergency notification app. Unlike the database, the ArapAlert app will give you notifications when you are in geographic proximity to a warning area. For instance, you might visit a friend or family member who is within the warning area. The app will detect your proximity and provide you the same warning given to those who live and work in that area. You can download the app from your app store. GV OCTOBER 2021 | GV NEWSLETTER PG. 9
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