Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
(26 Aug 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver - 4 November 2025
1. Various of poll workers sorting ballots
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver - 25 August 2026
++PARTIALLY COVERED++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul López, Denver Clerk and Recorder:
“Nothing in what was being said, nothing that the Supreme Court had decided last night, or yesterday, has any effect on whether we mail the ballots or not. We’re going to mail ballots. Our voters are going to receive them, and we’re going proceed as normal, because the Constitution is the Constitution.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver - 4 November 2025
3. Poll workers sorting ballots
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver - 25 August 2026
++PARTIALLY COVERED++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul López, Denver Clerk and Recorder:
“This order and this requirement is for the post office to be able to come up with rules that determine who gets to participate in an election, who doesn’t in terms of mail-in ballots or anything else, is ludicrous. It is a fantasy. It’s a fantasy of somebody who just wants to stay in power, who wants to ignore the will of voters, who wants ignore the democracy that this constitutional republic is founded upon. Or even the constitution that says clearly that it’s the states, not the federal government, that run elections. So at the end of the day, it is grossly illegal for them to do, and I think what this does is just try to generate a fear. Try to generate a fear of participation in an election. Try to discourage people from voting and try to confuse people from voting.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver - 4 November 2025
5. Various of poll workers and ballot sorting machines
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver - 25 August 2026
++PARTIALLY COVERED++
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul López, Denver Clerk and Recorder:
“Everything that we’ve ever fought for in elections, everything that we fight for in this democracy, whether it be World War I, II, or even now, some people on the streets of these cities fighting for democracy, it’s about the people being able to have a voice free from intimidation. It is the people that decide representation, not the president, not a king.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver - 4 November 2025
7. Tight shot of ballots in a sorting machine
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver - 25 August 2026
++PARTIALLY COVERED++
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul López, Denver Clerk and Recorder:
“To all the folks that say and think that ‘my vote doesn’t count. It doesn’t matter.’ If that were true, then why is they trying so hard to take it from us?”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver - 4 November 2025
9. Tight shot of a ballots in a sorting machine
STORYLINE:
The US Supreme Court’s decision giving preliminary approval for President Donald Trump’s order restricting mail voting may not lead to a single election procedure changing during the November midterms, but it has already thrown into uncertainty the method that nearly one-third of the country uses to vote.
Rather than saying that Trump’s order is legal, the high court said Monday it was too early for Democratic-run states to challenge it in June, when they convinced a federal judge in Boston to freeze the order for November’s election. That effectively restarts the legal fight over the order in an incredibly compressed timeline, with initial ballots scheduled to be sent to North Carolina’s overseas and military voters in just over a week, on Sept. 4.
Colorado relies heavily on mail voting.
Trump has long sought to make voting by mail largely impossible, though he himself has repeatedly cast his ballots by mail.
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(26 Aug 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver - 4 November 2025
1. Various of poll workers sorting ballots
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver - 25 August 2026
++PARTIALLY COVERED++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul López, Denver Clerk and Recorder:
“Nothing in what was being said, nothing that the Supreme Court had decided last night, or yesterday, has any effect on whether we mail the ballots or not. We’re going to mail ballots. Our voters are going to receive them, and we’re going proceed as normal, because the Constitution is the Constitution.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver - 4 November 2025
3. Poll workers sorting ballots
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver - 25 August 2026
++PARTIALLY COVERED++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul López, Denver Clerk and Recorder:
“This order and this requirement is for the post office to be able to come up with rules that determine who gets to participate in an election, who doesn’t in terms of mail-in ballots or anything else, is ludicrous. It is a fantasy. It’s a fantasy of somebody who just wants to stay in power, who wants to ignore the will of voters, who wants ignore the democracy that this constitutional republic is founded upon. Or even the constitution that says clearly that it’s the states, not the federal government, that run elections. So at the end of the day, it is grossly illegal for them to do, and I think what this does is just try to generate a fear. Try to generate a fear of participation in an election. Try to discourage people from voting and try to confuse people from voting.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver - 4 November 2025
5. Various of poll workers and ballot sorting machines
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver - 25 August 2026
++PARTIALLY COVERED++
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul López, Denver Clerk and Recorder:
“Everything that we’ve ever fought for in elections, everything that we fight for in this democracy, whether it be World War I, II, or even now, some people on the streets of these cities fighting for democracy, it’s about the people being able to have a voice free from intimidation. It is the people that decide representation, not the president, not a king.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver - 4 November 2025
7. Tight shot of ballots in a sorting machine
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver - 25 August 2026
++PARTIALLY COVERED++
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul López, Denver Clerk and Recorder:
“To all the folks that say and think that ‘my vote doesn’t count. It doesn’t matter.’ If that were true, then why is they trying so hard to take it from us?”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver - 4 November 2025
9. Tight shot of a ballots in a sorting machine
STORYLINE:
The US Supreme Court’s decision giving preliminary approval for President Donald Trump’s order restricting mail voting may not lead to a single election procedure changing during the November midterms, but it has already thrown into uncertainty the method that nearly one-third of the country uses to vote.
Rather than saying that Trump’s order is legal, the high court said Monday it was too early for Democratic-run states to challenge it in June, when they convinced a federal judge in Boston to freeze the order for November’s election. That effectively restarts the legal fight over the order in an incredibly compressed timeline, with initial ballots scheduled to be sent to North Carolina’s overseas and military voters in just over a week, on Sept. 4.
Colorado relies heavily on mail voting.
Trump has long sought to make voting by mail largely impossible, though he himself has repeatedly cast his ballots by mail.
AP video shot and produced by Thomas Peipert
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