{"id":3747,"date":"2006-11-07T13:19:41","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T20:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2006-11-07T13:20:35","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T20:20:35","slug":"meltdown-06-voting-nightmare-reported-by-denver-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3747","title":{"rendered":"MELTDOWN &#8217;06: &#8216;Voting Nightmare&#8217; Reported by Denver Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/ci_4616285\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/VotingLines_DemCandidate_Denver_110706.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/ci_4616285\">From <em>Denver Post<\/em>&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Democratic party leaders are planning to seek a two-hour extension for voting in Denver, due to massive computer problems which have created long lines, and kept many from casting their vote.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe problems began right at 7 a.m. as computer problems at the voter-check in stations bogged down, creating a bottleneck in the first hour of voting as a rush to the polls overloaded the system.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAt Denver Botanic Gardens, more than 200 voters backed up in a line that stretched out of the gates and down the block more than half way to 11th Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will not get to vote today,&#8221; said a frustrated Lauren Brockman as he left the Botanic Gardens. <\/p>\n<p>He lined up at 6:45 a.m. hoping to beat the rush, only to stand in line for close to an hour before leaving. <\/p>\n<p>But an hour wait was short, compared to some.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Denver Post&#8230; Democratic party leaders are planning to seek a two-hour extension for voting in Denver, due to massive computer problems which have created long lines, and kept many from casting their vote. &#8230; The problems began right at 7 a.m. as computer problems at the voter-check in stations bogged down, creating a bottleneck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,76,6,147],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorado","category-election-2006","category-election-irregularities","category-lava"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}