Not so well in some parts of Denver, according to news reports.
How’s it look where you voted?
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My understanding is that the problems are wide spread and more serious than the election commission would like to acknowledge.
The most serious issues are not that the poll workers could not get the machines to work and that people had to wait a long time to vote (or left without voting). The question is how many people who should have been able to vote in SD32 and didn’t because they were given the wrong ballot style – or the reverse, how many people were given the ballot style for the Dem primary in SD32 despite the fact that they did not live in SD32. Same for HD1.
I know personally of at least one individual who does not live in SD32, but was given a ballot for voting in that primary.
Moreover, the Post is reporting the Alfredo Hernandez, a candidate in HD1 was given a ballot that only contained a provision for voting for Diana DeGette. There was no provision for any of the other Democratic candidates including himself. There also was no provision to vote on the Excel franchise.
If SD32 is close, there may be challenges based on the fact that some legitimate SD32 votes were not cast because of incorrect coding of ballot card and some SD32 votes were cast that should not have been because of incorrect card coding. The fact is, no one can know how many of these situations may have occured, if the person votes and then leaves without either recognizing the error, or ignoring the error. However there is enough anecdotal evidence that the issuance of incorrect ballot cards was happening and probably happening in enough numbers to warrant a concern about just how widespread the problem might be.
Given the hue and cry earlier this year about problems at the commission and the denial by the Commission and the Mayor that problems existed, this could be serious egg on teh face.
Post this morning reporting serious problems
http://www.denverpos…
Serious problems. Did anyone in Denver go to a voting center where the old machines were up and running and the new ones with the paper audit trail were there but not working?
Early results coming in from Connecticut. According to N.Y. Times, with 1% of precincts reported:
Joseph I. Lieberman 761 42.1%
Ned Lamont 1,048 57.9%
as of 9pm eastern time, and with 25% or precincts reporting Lamont 55%, Joe 44%
Turn out the lights, the party’s over.
Later this week Chris Dodd is supposed to have the Come-To-Jesus meeting w/ Lieberman, and ask him to drop his threat to run as an independent in Nov. for the sake of party unity. Oh, to be a fly on the wall during that meeting….
Reality is, if Joe does not come close to 50% of the vote, he has no chance in the general (he may not any way) If Lamont wins by 6% or more, Joe really needs to hang it up, for the party and for himself.
If Dodd anc convince Joe to step aside (if Joe indeed loses), and Dems pick up net gain in Senate seats (our take the majority), he enhances his own reputation with Dems, when it comes to 2008.
Having said that, I must disclose that I like Dodd and could support him in 2008.
Looks like that survey USA poll wasn’t that far off. Ed has a 54% to 38% lead over Peggy.
The RMN has numbers on CD 5 with Crank ahead w/ 52%, but that’s based upon a grand total of 47 votes counted! Take it for what little it is worth……
I’m still expecting Doug Lamborn to demonstrate first hand his God-like qualities by multiplying the fishes, the loaves of bread, and the absentee ballots………
The polling place at Botanic Gardens was the busiest vote center, by far, in Denver, according to City Clerk Wayne Vaden. It also was the center with the most problems. Some of the problems stemmed from unpreparedness from the Commission and the rest were from undertrained judges.
The judges running the machines seem to have forgotten everything they were taught in judge training. The problem with the ballot styles was not the check-in judges giving out the wrong ballot syles, but the machine judges were typing in the wrong numbers because they apparently forgot how to enter ballot styles in a primary.
The day started off badly when the computers needed for checking in voters were not even at the vote center yet when we got there. There was no IT person as there was supposed to be to set them up. One finally showed up 10 minutes after the polls were supposed to open, and then took another 20 minutes getting the equipment set up. So the polling place opened 1/2 hour late.
Then the issue with the ballot styles came up after about 20 or so voters had already voted. When we figured out the machine judges either could not remember their training, or perhaps had not been trained on this issue at all, we got together and worked out a system of amking ballot styles so every judge was on the same page and rest of the day went reasonably smoothly.
So even though the day started off rocky, it quickly smoothed out and even when a large crowd came in towards the end (we processed 400 voters in the last 3 hours) it went very smoothly for the voters by that point.
Voting is not a process which is supposed to get bettter as you go along….Voting is a right and each vote has to count. Is there a state law which says a county gets a margin of error…if some ballots are wrong; machines don’t work, someone isn’t trained…that’s okay? That’s crazy. Every vote has to be counted, accurately and secretly. From what I can tell, that did not happen in Denver. And, when you mix the old machines with the new machines, there is no way to do a valid recount. Only some of the machines have the paper audit trail, you can not verify the votes in the old machines.
And what is this, Dan Willis, about you all getting together and working out a system of “amking” ballot styles so everything went smoothly. Being on the same page and things going smoothly is a value ONLY if it leads to an accurate and secret ballot cast and an accurate final tally.
What if this really was a test ….how much confusion and misvoting will Denver voters tolerate? I think the answer is: A LOT. This was an election, not a practice run.
It is, finally and always, the Constitution, Stupid.
At this point, there is no way of knowing how many votes may have been cast by voters voting in the wrong district.
One guy on Channel 9 acknowledged that he mistakenly did. I suspect there may have been more. But who knows how many incorrect ballot styles were handed out to voters, who then voted them not knowing that they may have voted in a district in which they did not live.
This does not instill confidence in the system.
The errors made yesterday were bad. There is no excuse for them.
As you say, there is no way of really knowing how many errors there were. All we (the election judges and the Election Commission) can do now is look at what happened and set a course of action to prevent it from happening again.
I wrote a longer post with more explantion on a newer thread