Denver Judge denies extended voting hours

[El Supremo]

DENVER - The lawsuit filed against the City and County of Denver Tuesday requesting polling places be kept open until 9 p.m. Tuesday has been denied.

The hearing, which began at 12:45 p.m., was heard by Judge Sheila Rappaport who denied the request just after 3 p.m. Tuesday.

Democrats, witnesses and poll watchers testified that several voters left after they could not vote in a timely fashion due to the technical problems which occurred at various Denver polling places.

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[Supersedeas]

1. another example of liberal activist judges...mealy mouth Mehlman??

[Tempest]

3. She's was appointed by Repug Owens

Let's see Mehlman defend this.

[Tempest]

2. Judge was appointed by Repug Owens

http://www.state.co.us/owenspress/04-26-00a.htm

[Der Blaue Engel]

4. Check out this quote from the article

"According to the Denver Election Commission, problems arose early Tuesday morning because the Electronic Poll Books were on the same computer server as the city and county of Denver employees. When the employees came into work, it slowed the entire system down, officials said."

THE SAME SYSTEM? :wtf: There are no words.

[redacted]

5. WTF? JAW HITS FLOOR

[MissB]

6. Holy.Hell.

[GAspnes]

10. they didn't do *load* testing?

Sheesh.

[Hawkeye-X]

7. They should do a interloctury appeal

and go straight to CO State Supreme Court

It's still Democratic.

Hawkeye-X

[denverbill]

8. What I want to know is who set up this new f-ing system.

Hickenlooper (Denver's mayor) and virtually all of the city govt (and I'd assume county govt) are Democrats. If it was a Democrat who decided Denver should go to 'voter centers' instead of precincts, that was an incredibly dumb thing to do.

The most heavily populated, most Democratic district in the state, and you pull some dumb-ass stunt like this and have no back-up system? It's either incompetence or deliberate voter suppression.

[Blaq Dem]

9. It may be a republican precinct

There are pockets of conservatives in large metro areas.

[denverbill]

13. Not in the Botanic Gardens vicinity.

Anyway, this is a city/county wide system. Instead of precincts voters were told they could go to any one of 55 'voter centers' to vote. All these centers were connected to one server, which got overloaded when city workers logged on.

The system also totally failed again this afternoon, for 20 minutes.

[Kikosexy2]

15. Fuck that ...

judge..challenge the vote....declare voter fraud!!...

[IntiRaymi]

11. Can we sue judges on Civil Liberties grounds?

[Andreas Baader]

12. Bill Owens, you F-ing tool

Way to go, Owens. Stomp on democracy by denying voters the opportunity to cast a ballot with your idiot, bought and paid for judge.

[Divine Discontent]

14. Owens is Awful

this is so undemocratic and ignoring the will of the people to keep polls open so they can vote due to major problems.



www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable <<-- antibush prodem stickers/shirts

[Boo Boo]

16. I wonder if they really testified to "several" voters leaving. If so...

that may be why they were denied. The judge may have decided that the harm done by just sticking to the rules was not enough to warrant overriding the rules. Not what I would have done. Seems like if you have problems with the system, go ahead and tack an hour on. The rule should be that the polls are open and functioning to an appropriate level for a certain amount of time---not just from Tam to Tpm.

[Megahurtz]

17. Fuck that NeoCon Judge.

She knows all of the working class Democrats have to work late. :mad:

http://www.jail4judges.org/national_001.htm

or:

http://www.jail4judges.org/

[NotGivingUp]

18. how on earth does it make sense in a democracy, that a person

does not even get a chance to cast their vote????

[Anakin Skywalker]

19. Damn! With that Haggard thing and now this........

I'm starting to get the feeling Colorado is one big rightwing state! WTH is wrong with these people?

[Cha]

20. We need to have a National Holiday

for Voting! Like that's gonna happen any time soon.