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I just heard on Denver radio that now the computerized poll books are down in several polling places. Denver is run by dems, so this is their issue. This year they decided to ditch the precinct system and go to a voting center model where you can go to any voting center to vote. As a result, each voter's name must be checked against a computerized central data base. I heard the problem has been in checking the names, resulting in the long lines.

I live in a republican-run county in the suburbs of Denver, which has kept the precinct voting model. I went to my precinct where they knew who I was, checked my id per law, and found my name in a printed voter book for my precinct. I was signed in within a minute and spent about 5 minutes voting an extremely long ballot. Of course each precinct only has a few hundred voters, while the 55 "voting centers" in Denver must handle all the voters for a population over one million. Brilliant plan.

Also, according to Colorado law, if you are in line by 7pm (poll closing time) you vote, so what is the problem? Maybe they just want to do drive-through voting like McDonald's. No wait. Terrible to have to stand in line to exercise such a precious right.