The announcement earlier this month that a Republican former election official had purchased Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems and given it the new name Liberty Vote took many Colorado county clerks by surprise.

La Plata County Clerk Tiffany Lee said she had no advance warning about the sale from Dominion or Liberty Vote.

“There was no notification to us that this was even a conversation at their level,” said Lee, who is unaffiliated.

Like other clerks she found out through the media and Liberty Vote’s news release.

“That’s concerning to me that we didn’t get any kind of information from them directly or Dominion,” she said.

Sixty of Colorado’s 64 counties had contracts with Dominion for the technology they use to scan and count paper ballots. Since the 2020 election, the compa

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