UPDATE #3: Udall for Colorado sends this video clip of voters in line at CU-Boulder:
Another view of the line at CU:
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UPDATE #2: Lines building across the city, update from the Denver Botanic Gardens:
It's busy at Denver Botanic Gardens as voters arrive to cast ballot. Polls close in 2-hours. #copolitics pic.twitter.com/8sVPirkdAD
— Rory Schmalzried (@roryals) November 4, 2014
At Denver Election Commission headquarters, voters are sitting while they wait to vote, but voters still moving through quickly:
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UPDATE: The Denver Post:
Debra Johnson, Denver's Clerk and Recorder, says the city and county are geared up for 72 percent-plus turnout.
"Busy, busy and busy," Johnson said of her expectation for the day. "We are geared up to receive up to 150,000 ballots today."
Johnson said Denver typically votes last minute, adding that they looked at trends when determining turnout…
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We're getting photos of lines at vote centers from around the Denver metro area, and reports that suggest building turnout on the 2014 election's final day. At the Tivoli on the Auraria Campus, several dozen consistently in fast-moving lines throughout the morning:
A similar scene at Denver Botanical Gardens:
We'll update with more photos and reports as they come in. Send your photos to alva@coloradopols.com or post in comments.
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computer problems at outsourced voting sites. Outsourcing is immoral and counter to our democracy and to our economy.
Perfect weather for voting which should drive turnout. I love living in a peaceful Democracy. Go us.
Election day is a day I always sit back and give thanks for those who gave us our freedom over these many years. To have peaceful "revolution" like this, even after all the horrors of a campaign, is just so beautiful. Congratulations America!!
That is something we can all agree on.
Go Coloradans! If we get get a half million or so votes in the door today, I'd much rather be sitting in Udall and Hick's shoes than the GOP.
BD, they keep coming in.
Ballots now up to 1,703,738
R+124,363 with only about 400 K more coming.
If 400,000 more still come in, that means turnout in 2014 will be 300,000 more than in 2010 when the Dems did OK? I remember a comment about realistic Republicans shaking in their boots today. Do you really think this 15% increase in voter turn-out is going to benefit the Republican Party?
PS. Where'd you get the new numbers?
I think this level of voting was anticipated and does not by itself help or hurt either party. I think the estimate was 2 to 2.2 million total votes. A much larger percentage of Republicans have been voting and there are obvious limits on that but the percentages will end up with Republicans at 39%, Dems at 32% and UAF at 28% which is more favorable to the Republicans than the polling outfits generally assumed by a couple points.
Here is a link to the numbers. http://media.wix.com/ugd/786786_d8e198b471c24148b8968b2e0665921b.pdf
You are locked on to the Republican vote—now look at reality—Dems AND independents will also vote today.
Indeed, AChoilio loves to post numbers without providing links. This "data" was probably filtered through Repub flacks Magellan Strategies.
Z, you are paranoid.
Post your links.
Oh, you DID post the link–and, what do you know, it's to Magellan Strategies! Favorites of Karl "I have THE math" Rove.
The R/D spread shrunk a full percentage point with the first 200k ballots cast today. The balance of the vote will be increasingly less-friendly to R's. Only in WIF's World would this be good news
achole the troll's worst nightmare is coming true.
If Dems are at parity with the remaining 400k, they win. That would mean a 124k R-D margin at 2.1m votes, which is under 6%. Bennet won in 2010 with a R+7 electorate.
My point exactly.
I think you make a mistake in assuming Udall picks off Republican votes like Bennet did and retains Dem votes like Bennet did. The polling I have read does not support that. I take the turnout as Gardner picked up a couple points to his lead in the polls with was a 2-3 pointy lead.
You sound desperate like buck did, in searching for votes like buck did and con man cory will end up like buck did. Oh well at least he won't have your nasty rash. Or will He?
As of this morning, 60% of Us go D, 40% go R
That was supposed to be a graphic showing turnout if 60% of Us go D and 40% go R.
Diif as of this morning is only 1.6%
http://youtu.be/V8lT1o0sDwI
I hope the Auraria vote service center is not collecting ballots from students who live in counties other than Denver.
I assume this is just rank speculation with no facts behind it since all the other Republican BS about voter fraud has been, well bull shit. I'm pretty sure that the Denver Election Clerks know how not to take a ballot that says Jefferson County on it. I'm also pretty sure that all those wonderful students who ride the W-Line to the Jeffco Courthouse will be able to find the ballot box, which is one block from the station.
Are you sure that people at the Denver Botanic Gardens aren't just using voting as an excuse to sneak into the Chihuly exhibit?
Whatever it takes……
Is it still going? It was fantastic BTW. I think it was the best special exhibit yet because his glass creations are so organic looking they just seem to be growing along with the rest of plants in the garden.
Looks like it's on until November 30th. While I can take or leave Chihuly on a glass by glass basis, I especially enjoyed seeing the exhibit at night, when the glass is lit up.
Haven't seen it at night yet. Good to know there's still a chance. I thought it was going to be over early November.
Bundle up, that's for sure, if you're going at night.
Me, I'm off soon to see the Mark Mothersbaugh (of DEVO) exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art. I think he and his band were quite prescient in the notion that human beings are undergoing "de-evolution." For me, this election certainly makes that case.
No!!! But I'm sure that all those people voting at the Evergreen Motor Vehicle Office are from Clear Creek County and they're casting Jeffco ballots. I just know it.
Because the folks in Clear Creek County feel inferior to folks in Jeffco and want to be one of them by association or something like that.
DIXVILLE NOTCH, NH: Scott Brown 3–Jean Shaheen 2
GAME OVER!!!
And half the turnout that they had in 2012. Only 5 votes instead of 10.
Udall walkers in my 'hood – 3 days straight. Good sign.
Isn't Dixville Notch being slowly abandoned?
Yes, I think their pop decreased from 12 to 9, or thereabouts.
Why are there lines when everyone got a mail ballot?
Drop-offs, David. They also have machines there for same-day registrants (who, obviously didn't receive a mail ballot) and the die-hards who insist on doing things the old-fashioned way.
It will be interesting to see how many same day registrations there were.
Lots of folks, especially Dem demo folks, procrastinate. Some just prefer the experience of in person voting. I know I never mail mine because it isn't entirely impossible for stuff get lost in the mail but I hand dropped mine a little over two weeks ago. There are also folks who left it laying around until it got lost or accidentally thrown away. They can vote in person and their mailed ballot is voided immediately.
You may as well ask why stores are crowded Christmas Eve day or why there's a line at the late mail boxes outside the PO on April 15th. Because not all of us get our Christmas shopping done in July or our taxes finished up before the middle of January. It's not like we didn't know Christmas and tax time were coming. BTW, the only people I know who do brag about having their Christmas shopping done months early are Republicans.