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Voting experts say it is impossible to say how many votes were not counted that should have been. But in Florida alone, the discrepancies reported across Sarasota County and three others amount to more than 60,000 votes. In Colorado, as many as 20,000 people gave up trying to vote, election officials say, as new online systems for verifying voter registrations crashed repeatedly. And in Arkansas, election officials tallied votes three times in one county, and each time the number of ballots cast changed by more than 30,000.
 
In Colorado the D County Clerk decided to use an untried system on the official election day. That was in Denver, in Douglas County his friend went along. That one is R. I seriously doubt it would have changed the results.
 
This new current system in insecure from all unbiased expert points of view and without a secure election system we do not have a true Democracy
 
Desh said:
This new current system in insecure from all unbiased expert points of view and without a secure election system we do not have a true Democracy
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I'm not disagreeing with that, only informing that this was not a widespread issue in CO, we turned not one voter away in my three precincts! Nor was it a problem in only D areas...
 
“If the success of an election is to be measured according to whether each voter’s voice is heard, then we would have to conclude that this past election was not entirely a success,” said Doug Chapin, director of Electionline.org, a nonpartisan election group that plans to release a report Wednesday with a state-by-state assessment of voting. “In places where the margin of victory was bigger than the margin of error, we looked away from the problems, but in 2008 we might not have that luxury.”
 
Denver votes count falls short
By Christopher N. Osher
Denver Post Staff Writer
Article Last Updated:11/21/2006 05:41:58 PM MST


Mary Ann Thompson smiles as she feeds in the last ballot on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006, at the City and County of Denver Election Commission. (Post / RJ Sangosti)The Denver vote on election day fell about 20,000 short of expected projections, reflecting voting day problems that now have elected officials considering a overhaul.

Denver finally finished counting its votes today, two weeks after election day.

An analysis of past voting trends confirms that a sizable chunk of voters, confronted with long lines, likely gave up and went home fuming during Denver's disasterous Nov. 7 election.

There's no way to know exactly how many voters were affected, but when compared to past gubernatorial races, it's clear the Denver vote tally this time around came up short.

"We're not going to pretend that people didn't leave without voting because they did," said

Final numbers
To see final voting tallies, and search The Post's database by race, county, and candidate, click here.
Alton Dillard II, the commission's communications director.
In both 2002 and 1998, when there were gubernatorial races, the voter turnout exceeded 65 percent of registered voters. This election, 58.45 percent of the registered voters actually voted, a total turnout of 160,388.

This year's voting problems led to the resignation of Denver County Clerk and Recorder commissioner Wayne Vaden, and calls for others with the commission to be fired.

Mayor John Hickenlooper has convened an investigative panel to look at restructuring the way Denver governs elections.
 
Desh said:
Denver votes count falls short
By Christopher N. Osher
Denver Post Staff Writer
Article Last Updated:11/21/2006 05:41:58 PM MST


Mary Ann Thompson smiles as she feeds in the last ballot on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006, at the City and County of Denver Election Commission. (Post / RJ Sangosti)The Denver vote on election day fell about 20,000 short of expected projections, reflecting voting day problems that now have elected officials considering a overhaul.

Denver finally finished counting its votes today, two weeks after election day.

An analysis of past voting trends confirms that a sizable chunk of voters, confronted with long lines, likely gave up and went home fuming during Denver's disasterous Nov. 7 election.

There's no way to know exactly how many voters were affected, but when compared to past gubernatorial races, it's clear the Denver vote tally this time around came up short.

"We're not going to pretend that people didn't leave without voting because they did," said

Final numbers
To see final voting tallies, and search The Post's database by race, county, and candidate, click here.
Alton Dillard II, the commission's communications director.
In both 2002 and 1998, when there were gubernatorial races, the voter turnout exceeded 65 percent of registered voters. This election, 58.45 percent of the registered voters actually voted, a total turnout of 160,388.

This year's voting problems led to the resignation of Denver County Clerk and Recorder commissioner Wayne Vaden, and calls for others with the commission to be fired.

Mayor John Hickenlooper has convened an investigative panel to look at restructuring the way Denver governs elections.
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Once again Denver is not all of CO, and I even know why and informed you why Denver's issues happened. Foolish people playing with new equipment that was never even tried during a Primary! Both Douglas County and Denver were foolish.

They simply decided to centralize the vote and instead of having Precincts have "Voting Centers" where anybody can enter and vote regardless of Precinct. The software they had was difficult to use and the training was seriously underdone they had machines sitting empty as they tried to figure out which ballot people were supposed to get...

Fricking retarded people...
 
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