Adams County starts issuing excuses for slow election results – before the election
August 5th, 2010
Waiting, waiting, and more waiting for Adams County election results.
Slow election results from Adams County have become the norm rather than the exception with final results not arriving until well after polls close. Despite years of problems nothing has been done to fix the problem and now county officials are being preemptive in issuing excuses for the 2010 elections.
Final results in the 2008 election weren’t posted by Adams County until 25 hours after polls closed. Last year the county reported results 23 hours after polls closed taking four times as long as the next slowest metro area county.
Adams County Clerk and Recorder Karen Long told the Denver Post today not to expect any improvement. “We are really encouraging people to get their ballots in early. You can have all the planning in place, but when you get buried on the last day, it delays the results,” she said.
Despite years of ineptitude counting ballots and being unable to give its citizens timely and accurate results, the county appears to have done nothing to correct the problem. Instead, they have taken the tact that excuses will make folks feel better about their elected officials’ inability to do the job they were hired by the voters to do.
Looking back:
This is the best endorsement of Dana West for Adams County Clerk and Recorder 2010 I’ve seen. Want the problem fixed? Vote for Dana.
The current commissioners and the clerk have been in office long enough that it should have been fixed or at progress made. Time for a change.
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