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November 02, 2004
Colorado | Power Outage / 3-Hour Waits Hit Some Precincts

Rocky Mountain News reports on a few problems at the polls today…

Some technical problems were reported in Arapahoe and Teller counties.

In Arapahoe County, five precincts lost electrical power. According to the Colorado Secretary of State’s office, Xcel Energy was working on restoring power to those precincts. The voting machines that were affected have a battery backup and were still functioning.

In Teller County, voters who said they had not cast ballots in this year’s election appeared to have already voted early or voted with an absentee ballot. The software for the voting machine was fixed and election judges released new poll books, the Secretary of State’s office said. Voters in the first 30 minutes were given provisional ballots.

In some voting locations across the Denver area, lines were extremely long. For example, it three hours for a 7 a.m. voter at the Tattered Cover bookstore in downtown Denver.

Denver voters at the Tower at Speer Apartments at 1255 Galapago St. waited for up to two hours in lines that stretched through the complex’s lobby, into a main hallway and past residents’ doors.



Posted by Dave Bowdish at November 2, 2004 08:12 PM | TrackBack
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