The Colorado secretary of state's office announced that at least a dozen fraudulent mail ballots were sent in and identified in Mesa County, but that three of them were counted and unable to be removed.

The effort to vote in Mesa County using stolen ballots was blocked by Colorado's voter signature verification process.

Coloradans sometimes receive ballots in the mail for voters who no longer live at their address — former tenants of an apartment, children who moved away or deceased loved ones. Recent social media posts,

Over 636,000 ballots have been turned in statewide in Colorado, with a majority of them from Democrats and Republicans.

Colorado officials say at least 12 mailed ballots were stolen in a rural county and then sent in with fraudulent votes

At least a dozen mail ballots were stolen, fraudulently filled out and submitted in Colorado for the Nov. 5 election, the Colorado secretary of state’s office said Thursday.

At least a dozen mailed ballots were intercepted and cast on Western Slope before voters received them, according to the Colorado Secretary of State's Office.

Colorado authorities are investigating an incident in which at least 12 mail ballots appear to have been intercepted before reaching voters intended to receive them, according to a statement from the state's top elections official on Thursday.