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Voting On Election Day
T O P I C Discussion Started: 11-07-2006, 6:28 PM Add to the Discussion
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Did you have a hard time voting on Election Day?

Did you wait in long lines, experience problems, or was it a relatively quick and smooth process?

Did you like the switch from voting by precincts to voting with Vote Centers? Do you think the state judge should have extended the voting time until 9 p.m.?

Tell us about your Election Day experience.

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SolomonII 11-14-2006, 4:58 PM Add to the Discussion
Since when is it "Bigotry" to tell the truth. Usually people who go around crying bigotry as the biggest racists around or use the that and "Hate" and "Intolerant" to divert attention from the reality of an issue. I'm an Independent voter and as far as the Republicans are concerned, some are no better than the Democrats, but most are way too good for the likes of you and all Liberals. I'm still waitng for a Democrat I can vote for like I did years ago.

SolomonII

Tropolis 11-13-2006, 10:27 AM Add to the Discussion
What bigots! Blaiming illegal aliens on the democratic win? I've got news for you.. it's people like you who turn folks off to the republican party. Stop blaiming others for your problems.

Le Tropolis

SolomonII 11-09-2006, 1:29 PM Add to the Discussion
I voted by absentee ballot knowing how screwed up the City & County of Denver does things and I called that one right.

What can you expect from a city run by Democrats!

Also Ditto with what 10k11830 said about all the illegal aliens voting for the Democrats so they can give them freebies from hard working citizens. I saw signs in Spanish encouriging them to vote on Federal Blvd all the way from I-70 to Speer Bvld.(Litte Jaurez).

That's my Neck of the Woods and by the way I am also Hispanic but I want nothing the Democrats have to offer me!

SolomonII

SJRoyal 11-08-2006, 4:15 PM Add to the Discussion
There should be some personal responsibility on this issue for the voters. Early voting and absentee ballots were another option to standing in line at the polls. Did things go wrong - you bet? Does the City need to look into that and remedy it before the next election - absolutely! Next time how about those who run for office forego the photo op and cast their ballots early?

loki1830 11-08-2006, 3:26 PM Add to the Discussion
No problems with voting in Aurora. I am guessing the problems with long lines was all the illegal aliens voting. That is ritter won gov. he has the illegal votes!

loki1830

vpeters13 11-08-2006, 3:07 PM Add to the Discussion
You can't dog people for waiting until election day to vote and blame long lines on them. My situation was alittle different. I went to the Local Middle school where we have always voted. They moved the location in the school hall outside the office because of lock downs after the shootings. I'm trying to read through referandums with hundreds of kids passing down the halls and annoucements over the loud speaker it was ridiculous. I hope they move the polling place in the future. If voting is a pain to do many people won't. Look at the people who don't now.

xxoo

djlandfair 11-08-2006, 2:26 PM Add to the Discussion
I voted at my regular polling place in Boulder County and it only took me half an hour start to finish. That said, they had only one electronic voting station and a dozen booths for paper ballots, so most of the voters were given paper ballots, unless they were willing to wait more than an hour to have access to the single voting machine. Talking to a coworker I found out that India has conducted national elections electronically for years, moving billions of people through the process in a single day. I think it is an embarrassment to the American people that our electronic voting system was so bad. Surely we have better technology available.

den_voter 11-08-2006, 2:12 PM Add to the Discussion
Hurrah to those who chose to vote - be it by "early voting", "absentee voting", or by showing up at the polls on Election Day.

I have voted ON election day since I was 17 years old (the primary election just before I turned 18 - wonder who here knew you could do that?).

It is my constitutional right to be able to vote. Since that first voting day, I have not missed voting ON election day, except for the year when I was travelling out of the country. I submitted my ballot via absentee ballot - the logical thing to do since I was ABSENT for voting that day.

So - to hear that I brought yesterday's intolerable waiting time upon myself since I didn't use an early voting center or because I didn't file for an absentee ballot (when I would actually be present on election day) is LUDICROUS.

I have a right to vote ON Election Day. Just like you had/have a right to use early voting or absentee voting. (um, where exactly were you that you were not in town to vote ON election day?)

Our government has a duty to ensure that every single person eligible to vote can exercise that right ON election day, if that is when we choose to vote, or with early voting, if that is when we choose to vote, or with an absentee ballot, if you're out of town on election day. Last I checked, the right to vote ON Election Day was not revoked.

Many voters were denied that right yesterday due to the poor administration of the voting process. It is unreasonable to expect anyone to stand in line to the lengths that some of us had to wait.

I took the afternoon off from work after finding out there was a 3 hour wait in front of me. No children to be picked up at day-care. No other commitments before 7 pm (when most reasonable people would expect to be finished with voting).

I am in great admiration of those people who stood in line, waiting to vote, and persevered through the day to exercise their consitutional right to vote. Bravo.

ArapCoRob 11-08-2006, 2:06 PM Add to the Discussion
I voted in suburban Arapahoe County. I walked into my polling place at 1:20 PM. I walked directly to the poll worker where they checked my ID, found my name in the register, and had me sign. I then went directly to the voting machine and cast my vote. The entire process took maybe 5 minutes. I have never had any problems casting my vote here in the past 10 years; the longest I ever had to wait was about 15 minutes. I don't know how other polling places in Arapahoe County fared, but maybe Denver ought to look here for a system that seems to work.

xscapee 11-08-2006, 1:28 PM Add to the Discussion
Dear Gigi Dennis and Election Commission Officals,

We have tar, feathers and a recall election for you. Please stop by and pick them up.

Sincerely,

Voters of Colorado.

P.S.... Seriously, could you have screwed things up any worse than you did???

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