The Col­orado Sec­re­tary of State’s Office will give fed­er­al CARES Act dol­lars to coun­ties that keep their ear­ly vot­ing cen­ters open the Sun­day before Elec­tion Day, the office announced Thursday.

Adams Coun­ty is the first to decide to keep a loca­tion open that Sun­day. The cen­ter at Moor­head Recre­ation Cen­ter, 2390 Havana St. in Auro­ra, will be acces­si­ble 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 1, accord­ing to the state.

Vot­ing cen­ters in the state have to open for ear­ly vot­ing on Oct. 19, but they are not required to be open on Sundays.

“As Sec­re­tary of State, I have worked to increase vot­ing access for Col­oradans,” said Sec­re­tary of State Jena Gris­wold in a news release. “Ear­ly vot­ing options are key to acces­si­ble elec­tions, and for a pres­i­den­tial elec­tion dur­ing a pan­dem­ic, it’s impor­tant to pro­vide Col­oradans with many options to be able to cast their bal­lot and make their voice heard.”

The NAACP com­mend­ed Adams Coun­ty and the Col­orado Sec­re­tary of State’s Office for the move in the release. State Pres­i­dent Rose­mary Lytle said it would increase vot­er par­tic­i­pa­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly among typ­i­cal­ly dis­en­fran­chised communities.