On Thursday, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D-Colo.) revealed that her office had discovered over a dozen mail ballots that had been stolen and mailed in with fraudulent votes cast.

As Just The News reports, the state has been engaging in universal mail-in voting for years, sending ballots to every registered voter in the state; this practice was considered rare prior to the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic in 2020, after which it became more common in Democrat-controlled states.

Officials in Griswold’s office said that the fraudulent ballots were discovered through the signature verification process, where the signature of the voter on record does not match the signature on the ballot. At least three ballots were still counted even after being determined as fraudulent, meaning the three false votes cannot be changed.

Nevertheless, Griswold issued a statement falsely declaring that “Colorado’s elections are safe and secure.”

“This attempt at fraud was found and investigated quickly because of all the trailblazing processes and tools Colorado has in place like signature verification, ballot tracking, and the curing process,” she added as she attempted to justify her office’s poor handling of the situation.

All of the fraudulent ballots in question were sent to the Mesa County election office through the postal service, rather than left in drop boxes.

Election fraud has been a top concern for many voters following the 2020 election, in which numerous unilateral and last-minute changes to election laws, and implementation of such suspicious practices as ballot-harvesting and drop boxes, led to widespread and credible evidence of mass voter fraud that may have altered the election’s outcome.