Election 2020

Colorado 2020 election in photos

Newsline journalists captured images of the events of Nov. 3

By: Newsline staff - November 4, 2020 5:15 pm

Election worker Kelsey Wiley at the Arapahoe County Government Administration building in Littleton, on Nov. 3, 2020. Wiley wasn’t able to vote in the election but was happy to help volunteer. (Carl Payne for Colorado Newsline)

The election this week was unlike any other.

Due to the coronavirus, the usual watch parties at restaurants and hotels were called off. An unprecedented number of people voted by mail. Social distancing restrictions were in place at polling sites.

But there was plenty to see, and Newsline reporters and two photographers working with them captured some of the events of Nov. 3 in images.

: Voters got to the polls at the Arapahoe County Government Administration building in Littleton, on Nov. 3, 2020. (Carl Payne for Colorado Newsline)

: Election workers process ballots at the Arapahoe County Elections Facility in Littleton, on Nov. 3, 2020. (Carl Payne for Colorado Newsline)

: Election workers at the Arapahoe County Government Administration building in Littleton, on Nov. 3, 2020. (Carl Payne for Colorado Newsline)

: Election worker Karen Novick at the Arapahoe County Government Administration building in Littleton, on Nov. 3, 2020. Novick said it had been a slow election day and night and was excited about early voter turnout. (Carl Payne for Colorado Newsline)

: An Agilis ballot sorting system at the Arapahoe County Elections Facility in Littleton, on Nov. 3, 2020. (Carl Payne for Colorado Newsline)

: Arapahoe County Clerk and Reporter Joan Lopez at the Arapahoe County Government Adminstration building during last day of voting Nov. 3, 2020, in Littleton. (Carl Payne for Colorado Newsline)

: Election workers process ballots at the Arapahoe County Elections Facility in Littleton, on Nov. 3, 2020. (Carl Payne for Colorado Newsline)

: Election workers process ballots at the Arapahoe County Elections Facility in Littleton, on Nov. 3, 2020. (Carl Payne, for Colorado Newsline)

: Election workers assist with drive up drop off voting at the Arapahoe County Government Administration building in Littleton, on Nov. 3, 2020. (Carl Payne for Colorado Newsline)

: Election worker Davis Grilley operates the Agilis ballot sorting system at the Arapahoe County Elections Facility in Littleton, on Nov. 3, 2020. (Carl Payne for Colorado Newsline)

: Election workers process ballots at the Arapahoe County Elections Facility in Littleton, on Nov. 3, 2020. (Carl Payne for Colorado Newsline)

: Marty Long, left, brought his friend Gregory Grimes, right, to vote for the second time in his life. They stand in front of ballot drop off before turning in ballots outside of the Martin Luther King Jr. Library polling site in Aurora on Nov. 3, 2020. (Carl Payne for Colorado Newsline)

: Josephine Bassett works a Recall Polis booth near the Mesa County Central Services building in Grand Junction, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (Barton Glasser for Colorado Newsline)

: Mesa County Commissioner-elect Cody Davis greets supporters with his children Rhys, 9, far left, Corbyn, 12, left, and friend Michaell Rossini, right, at a celebration at Warehouse 2565 in Grand Junction, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (Barton Glasser for Colorado Newsline)

: Voters wait in line to cast the ballots in person at Mesa County Central Services in Grand Junction, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. Voters reported wait times of 20-30 minutes. (Barton Glasser for Colorado Newsline)

: From left, Tina Kreifeldt, Tom Jarvis and Mike Maranville keep track of election results on their phones at the Mesa County Republican Party headquarters in Grand Junction, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (Barton Glasser for Colorado Newsline)

: Kevin McCarney, chairman of the Mesa County Republican Party, learns from Sen. Cory Gardner’s campaign that Gardner had conceded the race for senator, at the headquarters of the Mesa County Republican Party in Grand Junction, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. “Colorado has just elected a crook.” McCarney said. (Barton Glasser for Colorado Newsline)

: Jacob Valdez waits in line to vote at the Mesa County Central Services building in Grand Junction, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (Barton Glasser for Colorado Newsline)

: Phil Hester, right, and Bobbie Long wait in their camp chairs to vote at the Mesa County Central Services building in Grand Junction, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. Wait times were 20-30 minutes. (Barton Glasser for Colorado Newsline)

: Kerry Elmberger drops off her ballot at a drive-thru drop box near the Mesa County Central Services building in Grand Junction, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (Barton Glasser for Colorado Newsline)

: Election workers process ballots at the Arapahoe County Elections Facility in Littleton on Nov. 3, 2020. (Carl Payne for Colorado Newsline)

: Mesa County Commissioners-elect Cody Davis and Janet Rowland chat with supporters Andrea Haitz, left, and Tony Winslow at a celebratory dinner at Warehouse 25sixty-five Kitchen + Bar in Grand Junction on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (Barton Glasser for Colorado Newsline)

: Jeason Brown, left, and Bryson Sheppard waive banners supporting President Donald Trump on First Street in Grand Junction on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (Barton Glasser for Colorado Newsline)

: Isaiah Rodriguez, 19, right, prepares to place his ballot in a secure box as Juston Cooper, deputy director of the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, looks on, at the Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center in Denver on Nov. 3, 2020. (Faith Miller/Colorado Newsline)

: A person votes at the Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center in Denver on Nov. 3, 2020. (Faith Miller/Colorado Newsline)

: Voters cast their ballots at a mobile polling place in downtown Denver on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020. (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline)

: Voters wait to cast their ballots at a mobile polling place in downtown Denver on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020. (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline)

: A crew installs boards over H&M’s glass storefront on the 16th Street Mall in Denver in anticipation of possible election-related civil unrest on Nov. 3, 2020. (Quentin Young/Colorado Newsline)

: Boards were installed on many storefronts in downtown Denver, including that of Hard Rock Cafe, amid fears of election-related civil unrest, on Nov. 2, 2020. (Quentin Young/Colorado Newsline)

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