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As voting misinformation mounts, Colorado is preparing to start automatically sending registered voters their ballots by mail this weekend. Residents can mail back their ballots, put them in dropboxes or they can vote in person at vote centers up to and on Election Day. But they all get counted the same. Here is a behind the scenes look at how Colorado keeps its elections fair, accurate and secure.

The pandemic has put elective surgeries — from knee replacements to LASIK eye surgery to hernia repairs — on hold. In parts of the Mountain West, the situation highlights long-standing barriers to health care.

Under the state’s new safer-at-home order, hospitals are allowed to start elective surgeries again, which were not allowed under the stay-at-home order.…