When I moved from the UK to Colorado in 1996 it was a swing state. By the time I moved away 20 years later it was solid blue in Denver Metro. I wasn't a citizen then so obviously didn't vote but my husband was. When mail in ballots were introduced within Denver Metro he thought that was a really convenient solution. How naive we were thinking that was a good thing and that elections were safe. We never once entertained the idea that it was exactly the opposite. It was unthinkable that elections would be tampered with. My husband got engaged in local politics at the precinct level during the Tea Party years. Far from a positive experience, he had a hard time accepting that he was expected to encourage voters to vote for the candidate chosen by the party in any run off. He described it as very slick and oily at the top of the CO Republican party where they were dismissive of any independent thought. That's when we first experienced the uni-party.