Mesa County is among 25 counties in Colorado to receive grants to help them acquire ballot printers.

Delta and Montrose counties also received grants.

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold awarded a total of $515,765 as part of the printer grant program.

Counties will use the grants to acquire new printers for use with their Dominion ICX ballot marking devices. These new printers give counties the option to print on ballot cards larger than 14 inches at voter service and polling centers, saving paper and money on printing costs.

The Printer grant program continues state efforts to implement a uniform ballot statewide. The uniform ballot is a ballot printed at voter service and polling centers that matches mail ballots.

Voters at those centers can use ICX ballot marking devices to fill out a ballot on the machine, print the ballot using the printers funded by these grant awards and then return it to be counted. Each of Colorado’s 62 counties using Dominion Voting Systems software can print the uniform ballot.

“These grant awards will allow counties to modernize their ballot printers and simplify the ballots printed at voting centers so they match mail ballots received by every eligible voter,” Griswold said. “I’m proud to support the counties with this funding so that we can make voting more accessible while maintaining the highest levels of security.”