2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Oregon's Voting method should be done nationwide! [View all]Turn CO Blue
(4,221 posts)Every voter gets a ballot in the mail. It's great to sit there with the computer to research amendment and levy issues.
We have 24 hour official dropoff lock boxes everywhere (libraries, post offices, all with surveillance camera notices) if you don't want to pay for return postage.
We also have absentee voting, two weeks of early voting (your mail in ballot number gets invalidated), voters can go to any of the voter centers across town (they have all the different ballots), and finally we have election day voting.
Considering we have Republican SOS's most of the time, Colorado has a very accessible and open voting system here, and we had a 55% voter turnout in the 2014 midterms, which was in the top four states for turnout for that election. Considering the record turnout for the caucus last year, it's possible that turnout could be staggeringly high for this election.
One thing I can think of that needs improving in CO is extending the voter registration time frame.
Mail in works and it works beautifully and on my husband's informal poll on Facebook, at least 20 friends had received theirs yesterday, and completed it and mailed it back out or dropped it off on the same day.