Colorado voters approved Amendment 79, which creates a right to abortion and repeals an existing provision that prohibits public funds for abortion in the Colorado Constitution, with 61.46% of the vote. Amendment 79 will know allow public employees and low-income patients to access abortion care through state-provided health insurance plans and Medicaid.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo of Thornton was ahead by 1.5 percentage points early Wednesday as she faced a Republican challenger in her bid to win a second term representing Colorado’s 8th Congressional District.

Earlier today, a Denver judge denied a request by the Colorado Libertarian Party to stop all use of voting machines over an inadvertent password disclosure on the Secretary of State’s website. The judge ruled that the state’s rapid response to the incident by dispatching staff to change passwords, which are just one aspect of the multi-layer security process elections officials use to update voting machines, addressed the problem sufficiently to prevent bringing the state’s election to an immediate halt.

Tomorrow, El Paso County Clerk Steve Schlieker will administer the election in Colorado’s most populous county. Last Thursday, Schlieker sent a letter to his election staff and the county’s bipartisan team of poll workers assuring them that tomorrow’s election is secure and that the recent password leak from Colorado Secretary of State Jen Griswold’s office will not impact vote counting.