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September 10, 2008 06:27 PM UTC

No-Doze Strongly Recommended For Election Night

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  • by: Colorado Pols

As the Rocky Mountain News reports:

Some counties that will be key in deciding the presidential battle for Colorado’s nine electoral votes don’t expect to have final results from the Nov. 4 general election until the wee hours on the following day.

The nation will be waiting “well into the morning” hours before Denver finishes counting most of its ballots, officials said Tuesday.

Denver and El Paso County are important in determining which presidential candidate wins Colorado because they reflect turnout among a large number of committed voters.

Since Colorado is a swing state, “the whole country could be breathless waiting for the count in Denver,” said Councilwoman Marcia Johnson, a former election commissioner.

El Paso County expects to be finished with all polling place results about 10 p.m. “That’s just a ballpark guess,” Elections Manager Liz Olson said.

The most telling results will come from Larimer, Jefferson and Arapahoe counties, which are considered swing counties because they have a high number of unaffiliated voters…

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10 thoughts on “No-Doze Strongly Recommended For Election Night

  1. If the nation wants to predict the results, look at HD 25, the swing district in the swing state.  If Obama gets at least 45% of the vote here, he will win the state.  For a smaller microcosm, look at the Genesee Precincts especially (6162530005, 06 and 19).  If Obama takes close to 40% of the vote he wins Jeffco and Colorado and possibly, if it’s as tight as predicted, the country.  

  2. I am not so concerned with how fast we get results, I am concerned with the accuracy of the results we eventually get.

    While I am not a huge fan (I am merely okay with them) of all-paper ballot elections, it does afford the highest degree of accurate counting. If ever there is a question, we still have the physical ballots to count agains as need be.

    I have been involved in the oversight Denver’s election process in one form or fashion for 14 years now (this is my 7th election cycle) and I have to say generally I have been happy with the procedures used in Denver so far. There has of course been minor “Doh!” moments from time to time, but in any activity where humans particpate that is going to happen. But the proof comes in the fact that there are enough safeguards to prevent these moments from affecting the validity of the vote.

    So far I have only talked about the counting of votes once they are cast. The whole planing of how best to serve the public in collecting those votes is still a work in progress.

      1. Paper may be more trustworthy, but it does slow down the system.

        There is a process that could speed up the paper system a bit, but it is expensive ($1.5-2M range) and so far no one in the City seems willing to cough up those dollars. We will see if that is still the case if it does indeed take days to count the ballots.

        In the meanwhile, the choice is speed or soemthing that the people trust.

  3. If the race in Colorado is close, Denver will probably be the last to have in its result, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it took a week or longer, based upon the processing rate of election day returns in the primary election (even knowning that not all available counting machines were in use at that time).

    1. are having an election night party, to get in you have to prove that you voted.

      I plan on taking the next day off as well, nursing either my joy hangover, or my sadness headache.

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