CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%↓
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
30%
20%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
30%↑
15%↑
10%↓
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
50%↑
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
30%↑
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
October 31, 2010 12:27 AM UTC
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What’s not to love: you get to avoid the Election Day crowds while still wallowing in the romanticism of casting your ballot at a polling place.
chatting with the wonderful women at the polling center and being able to thank them for their important work. It just puts a smile on my face to exercise my responsibilities along with my fellow citizens.
Voted for 3 R’s on my ballot. Also undervoted in a couple races that were uncontested.
I can’t believe you voted for that wuss (name redacted) who is running for re-election to the Board of County Commissioners. I had to undervote that race. The choice was between “crazy” and “no spine.”
The other two Rs, no problem. I even contributed to one of them.
Cheryl and I dropped off our “mail” ballots in person.
Saved us $1.22.
it actually saved about 96 cents per ballot. I ain’t got no steekin 61 cent stamps and no longer keep tiny ones since the Forever first class stamp arrived. But I dropped it off two weeks ago just to be sure the post office didn’t beej it up. I voted “early” for the purposes of the poll. My wife actually did go to the early ballot.
I took the four from my family into the courthouse in person , partly to save the $2.48 and partly because we hadn’t gotten around to actually filling out the ballots until Thursday night….
Because I am opposed to the poll tax. The County Clerk’s office pays the postage in that case.
and then refuse to pay the fare because I am opposed to the poll tax. Then I demand the county clerk pay the cabbie, and then the cabbie slugs me and tells me not to be such a pompous ass overly impressed with myself.
Fair point – next time I’ll buy a stamp.
it’s “Don’t fuck with the Post Office.” Your ballot is being delivered to the recycling center by the old power plant, Dave. (Anyplace else and it would be the dump or the river, but even revenge-oriented clerks are green in Boulder.)
The post office is under no obligation to deliver that ballot if it does not have postage.
Yes, the county clerk will pay the postage, but only if the ballot actually gets to them.
Nobody forced you to request a mail-in ballot.
Hard to consider that a poll tax. It was your choice.
But you didn’t REALLY want to vote for Bennet anyway.
I’ll put a stamp on next time.
As to Bennet, I live in Boulder – we only have the Democratic candidates on our ballots 🙂
Delivered to the drive up ballot box at the Jeffco admin building. After I dropped in the envelopes, I told my husband I hope they survive the night and no one drops a lighted match into the box. Who knows if we really voted. But then again, nothing changes anyway, so …
I like dropping it into that box myself. Especially since I recently received a locally mailed check with a very old post mark! For the poll, I chose already mailed as the closest option.
While the Post Office won’t deliver mail with no postage, it doesn’t require full postage!Put a regular first class stamp on your ballot and post office will deliver, collecting the balance from the county clerk. A county clerk herself confirmed this to me.
I don’t do it because I don’t trust the post office to deliver it anyway, and why give them one more opportunity to beej it up? But that is, in fact, the rule.
That said, I urge only Buck supporters to actually try this, and do so at the special 5 p.m. mail pickup reserved for Republican ballots.
They will be delivered even with no postage (and the Clerk’s office pays it).
For any other mail a 1 cent stamp will have them try – but the recipient must pay the balance. Works for paying most bills if you want to be a pain.
And still put it in the “Don’t try this at home” category.
But Republicans taking advantage of the special 5:30 p.m. Tuesday pickup at any mailbox are encouraged to mail it postage free, thereby protesting against the United Nations or something.
like on tax day.
To protest the government, teabaggers should wait to drop it off until then, so that Post Office employees have to stay until midnight sorting them. Ha ha, Post Office employees.
You heard it here first, folks!
I have a need to go to a polling place and smile at the senior citizens who are working and vote on my Diebold machine and pray that it records my votes properly. When the election is mail only, I fill out my ballot and take it to a ballot box and drop it in. Though I trust the U.S. Postal Service for my daily mailing needs, I don’t trust them or anybody with my ballot.
This year my husband and I went together and consulted about the RTD Director slot that had no candidate. We both wrote him in. Wish him luck!
I like to vote at the polling place on election day. There’s just something about my neighbors being there casting their votes, too, that makes me feel like democracy is alive and well.
that’s why I went and voted early. Democracy is so overrated!
🙂
was probably 8 or 10 years ago, I nearly had to shout my information to the polling judges ’cause they were all pretty much deaf. It was just me and the polling judges and one or two other voters in the elementary school gymnasium. My voice echoed and reverberated around the room. If you listen closely, you might still hear it there — the voice of the annoyed voter. Geez … what a frustration.
Now, I’m in a career where things always come up at the last minute, and I’m afraid that I won’t be able to make it, so I vote as soon as I can. This year, we voted on the first day of early voting.
However, if I can, I will take a box of donuts or a bag of burgers to the polling place on election day. The judges get hungry, so they appreciate the food, and I get to enjoy the atmosphere for a little while.
Remember your election judges and keep them well fed!
As I’m living out of state AND will be hand delivering election day (or tomorrow.)
I’m glad I decided to do mail ballot because Mom is now in rehab. She won’t have to miss the election, which has never happened.
…from Orange Countee
You’ve been away too long.
Of all the things I could rail against that’s not one of them. I feel good about my votes given the choice between going forward or driving in reverse.
You’ve seen the light.
For me, it’s voting on election day only. I’ve seen too many crazy things happen late in campaigns (particularly this year) and I’m something of a traditionalist about voting on the big day.
Besides, there’s a polling place not too far from home that’s never crowded. Ever.
since I have real issues with both political party’s, but I’m not about to go blindly into a voting booth and vote for people who would reverse all I’ve ever stood for.
There definitely something to be said for voting on election day an engaging with your fellow citizens.
I prefer the mail-in ballot; however, because I vote at my own convenience. More importantly time to research any candidate or ballot measure that came as a surprise.
I bet you don’t send it postage-due.
This thread has taught me that David is truly weirder than shit.
I assume and demand that this means my vote counts for MORE.
I have many more votes to give.
Luckily, my need to do mail-in has made it easier to get my husband to fill his out and send his in as well. The mail voting has been a real boon for agoraphobic people everywhere. We may not be numerous, but our votes should be counted too. 🙂
I had no problem putting stamps on them and really like being able to track my ballot to make sure the Post Office doesn’t beej it up.
I sent my mail in ballot shortly after it was mailed to me and voted against every amendment, initiative, and referendum.
We called it “sharing the wealth”
Did I ever tell the story about the “breakfast bars*” in my
wardneighborhood? When you got your “I voted” sticker, there were several colors. Supposedly random- they were a way to code for free drinks. Free beer and a shot or pickled egg. Primaries were always the bigger deal- but it worked just as well on election day.*after prohibition ended the Chicago liquor license was set up so a bar could only be open 16 hours a day. If you opened at noon – you could stay open till 4am. And for the overnight shifts, you could open at 6am every day but Sunday. And apparantly the deal is as long as you can renew, you can do what ever you were originally licensed for- and a lot of egg bars in my neighborhood opened at 6am, same time the polls opened.
I returned my ballot in person two weeks ago. Today I got two calls from the Republican Senate Campaign Committee–of course bashing Bennet and urging a vote for Buck.
Glad to see how efficient the R’s are–repeatedly calling a Democrat who had his ballot in two weeks ago!
While the Post Office won’t deliver mail with no postage, it doesn’t require full postage!Put a regular first class stamp on your ballot and post office will deliver, collecting the balance from the county clerk. A county clerk herself confirmed this to me.
I don’t do it because I don’t trust the post office to deliver it anyway, and why give them one more opportunity to beej it up? But that is, in fact, the rule.
That said, I urge only Buck supporters to actually try this, and do so at the special 5 p.m. mail pickup reserved for Republican ballots.
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Just in case I get hit by a bus on the way to the polling place. I want my vote to be in the bag!
I have a healthy appreciation for tradition.
I was in the PO mailing out books this afternoon, and I asked the counter clerk if they’d had very many people mailing ballots today. She admitted she had brought hers in that morning, but processed it herself and then handed it to the carrier who has the courthouse on his route.
She also said that the Postmaster always stays late on Election Day. He checks the mail drops periodically, and will make sure that anything mailed right up until the last minute gets taken over to the courthouse before they lock the doors at 7 pm.
I believe it, ’cause he’s a pretty good guy. His wife was my college nursing instructor and currently heads up the County Health Department. Nice folks.