The downside of voting by mail is that it's only a matter of time before there's a bottleneck in the process.
When Denver's first results for the November 8 election were released, at 7 p.m. that night, 109,247 ballots had been counted. That figure represented 23.7 percent of the 461,022 total ballots that had been mailed out.
"The ballot was three double-sided pages on 8-by-16-inch paper, which was three times as long as any other county, and which takes longer for even newer scanners to process ahead of the bipartisan teams," says Wenegieme. According to the Denver Elections Division, a refinement of existing signature files will help the signature-verification machine confirm signatures more frequently. This machine's confirmation rate was approximately 20 percent for the November election; Denver elections staff expects a confirmation rate between 30 and 40 percent for the municipal election. But that leaves 60 to 70 percent of the ballots that still need human signature confirmation.
Still, the Denver Clerk and Recorder's Office doesn't predict having another delayed count for the April 4 municipal election. One process improvement that the Denver Elections Division has made for the upcoming vote is additional training for ballot openers, many of whom are older individuals. In fact, there are so many elections judges who use oxygen that the elections division has a special room for them with an oxygen concentrator where they can plug in their tubes.
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