February 27, 2012 02:57 AM UTC

Jeffco Elections Division Opens New Office Tomorrow

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• by: Colorado Pols

No longer will the Jefferson County Clerk’s Elections Division be tucked away at the far end of a long hallway on the Taj Mahal’s second floor. Instead, the ballot counters and administrative staff will tomorrow be opening the doors of their new digs a few blocks away at the Laramie building.

That means it’s time to update your rolodexes! From the Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder:

(Golden) – The Elections Division of the Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder will be moving to a new location beginning Feb. 27, 2012.  The office will move from its current location on the second floor of the Administration and Courts Building to the Laramie Building on the Jefferson County government campus in Golden. The new Elections Division address is 3500 Illinois Street, Suite 1100, Golden 80401.  

“This move will allow us to consolidate and improve our processes by having all election-related activities under the same roof,” said County Clerk and Recorder Pam Anderson. “The Elections Warehouse, Mail Ballot Processing Center and Ballot Counting Room are already located in the Laramie Building, so it will be nice to have our elections administrative staff headquartered there as well,” she added.

It certainly will be “nice” to have everything in one building, although Anderson (or whoever writes the press releases in the clerk’s office) probably should’ve included thrown in a few words about increased efficiency or transparency for good measure. Of course this move is nice – if it wasn’t “nice” or “good,” why would you send out a press release about it?

If you’re going to include quotes in a press release, you ostensibly want those quotes to be tossed into a newspaper article. But the fact that something’s “nice” isn’t newsworthy, so why not say something a little more worthwhile? Anderson should’ve either crafted a better quote or included no quote at all and plainly released the information on the move.

Regardless, the next time you walk into the Taj Mahal intent on paying the elections division a visit, hop back in your car and drive two blocks down the road to the new office in the Laramie building.  It’ll be real “nice.”