Can Colorado handle a turnout tsunami?

Then-candidate for Colorado Governor, Bill Ritter, did a radio interview by cell phone while waiting to vote on Election Day 2006 in Denver. He arrived about 7:45 a.m. and left at about 9:30 a.m. after voting on a new touch screen voting machine. (Denver Post file photo)

"After a primary season marked by record-shattering voter turnout, election officials across the country are bracing for what might be an Election Day like no other," Politico reports.

In Colorado, "at least 60 percent of the state's registered voters will have the option of casting a paper ballot at a polling place on Election Day," The Denver Post reports, which follows months of uncertainty about the use of electronic voting machines.

There are still bad memories of the 2006 Election Day fiasco in Denver that left some people waiting hours to vote. Even Bill Ritter cooled his heels in line on that day when he was elected governor.

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