Colorado ballots go out tomorrow. For the first time in its history, every registered voter will receive a ballot in the mail.
Also for the first time, Colorado has same-day voter registration. If you are not registered, you can go to a voting center on the day of the election to register and vote. Thank you, Colorado Legislature!
Democrats turned out in large numbers this evening for this year's Get-Out-the-Vote (GOTV) training. The stakes are high. Sen. Mark Udall is probably trailing Cory Gardner by a point or two, and Andrew Romanoff is locked in a tight race with incumbent Mike Coffman in Colorado's 6th congressional district.
They say the "ground game" can add up to a 2% boost. Arapahoe Democrats are off to a good start. As of today, 60,000 households have been contacted through canvassing, and another 70,000 households through telephone.
Having worked GOTV in 2004, 2008, and 2012, I'm reasonably convinced that these GOTV efforts are getting better and better at turning out the vote. In 2004, election day was chaos. Even at that, we turned out a high percentage of the vote. By 2012, GOTV had become better organized, almost business-like.
Under Colorado law, a citizen may take another person's ballot to the voting center. Each person is limited to taking a total of 10 ballots. The Colorado Democratic Party has chosen not to encourage its volunteers to take ballots.
The reason seems to be that Colorado currently has a Secretary of State who rivals Kansas' Kobach for worst in the nation. He'll be all over the election looking for anything that might be dangerous to the state, such as people voting. (Nevertheless, be it known that it is still a person's right, under the law, to take the ballots of 10 people to the voting center.)
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