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Can Colorado handle a turnout tsunami?

By: editor
By editor
Created 03/24/2008 - 6:43pm

"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 [1].

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 [2], which follows months of uncertainty about the use of electronic voting machines.

There are still bad memories of the 2006 Election Day fiasco [3] 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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