Tag: Election Day
Liveblog: Early election night results
The polls are closing on the East Coast with results, prognostications and wild-ass guesses streaming in. Coloradans have two hours remaining to cast their ballots. Need help finding your polling place or figuring how to vote, check out our handy guide.
Updated: Police officers ID-ing voters in Greeley
Law enforcement officers in Greeley are inappropriately checking ID at a polling place near the University of North Colorado. Sheriffs and police officers are also stationed at two other polling locations in the area.
Latino voters leave Weld County polls without voting, say election advocates
Reports are streaming out of Weld County that Hispanic voters are leaving polling places without voting because voter information, including ballots, had not been translated into Spanish and because of a lack of translators available at polling places.
Liveblog: Mid-afternoon Election Day
T-minus five hours and we're hitting the Election Day home stretch. The Colorado polls are been surprisingly quiet while long lines and ballot problems are being reported throughout the nation. How's it look from your precinct?
Labor launches election ‘protection,’ GOTV efforts in Colorado
A coalition of nonprofit groups, the AFL-CIO and election attorneys is working to protect the vote in Colorado and eight other battleground states.
Liveblog: Mid-day voting thread
Election watchdogs are reporting problems throughout the state. What's been your experience? Check here for instant analysis, election updates and quirky news.
Election Day Q&A on fans, foes of Amendment 47
The Colorado Independent posed three questions to proponents and opponents of Amendment 47, a so-called right to work initiative that would restrict what way labor organizes in the state, by banning collective bargaining agreements between unions and businesses that require minimal agency fees from nonmember employees who receive union-negotiated benefits in the workplace.
Election Day problems? Report them here
We're tracking and reporting polling problems throughout Colorado. Having difficulty casting a ballot? Encountering long lines? Let us know.
Liveblog: The polls open!
Join us here for campaign observations, poll watch reports and up-to-the-minute news on this historic Election Day. And share your voting experience and win/loss predictions in the comments below.
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Obama lawyers defend ‘vote fraud’ efforts
As Republican charges of “fraud” and Democratic claims of “voter suppression” have escalated in the home stretch of the presidential campaign, liberal activists have started blasting Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign’s “voter protection effort” for not doing enough to ensure that all Democratic votes will get counted on Election Day.