Early Voting
After attending a packed to the gills lunchtime fundraiser for Colorado congressional candidate Ed Perlmutter (headlined by former President Clinton, who as of 2:45 when I left, had not yet arrived), I drove downtown to the Denver Election Commission to cast my early vote. The line was fairly long, about 1/2 hour, but once you got to the first checkpoint where they examine your driver's license, it was smooth sailing. Five minutes later I was in front of my electronic touch-screen monitor.
The ballot was 11 pages, nicely laid out, and the choices registered immediately. They also could be changed. When done, you get to see all your selections on the monitor, with a second chance to make changes. Then you press print, and a paper print-out of your vote appears on the left. Only when you click that the printout is correct, do you click "submit" and your vote gets counted.
As Tristero writes over at Digby's place, those in Florida were not so lucky.
Florida voters using electronic ballot machines are having persistent problems choosing Democrats in early elections, the Miami Herald reports.
The touch-screen gizmos seem strangely attracted to Republican candidates. One voter needed assistance from an election official, and even then, needed three tries to convince the machine that he wanted to vote for Democrat Jim Davis in the gubernatorial race, not his Republican opponent Charlie Crist.
I'm now off to meet McJoan from Daily Kos and some local Denver bloggers at a Drinking Liberally event. I'll be back here after that.
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