Denver District Court Judge Sheila Rappaport has denied a emergency request from the Democratic Party to keep Denver’s voting centers open for an additional two hours this evening due to faulty computers.
Attorney Mark Grueskin, representing the Democrats, had asked the court to extend the voting hours to 9 p.m., because voters were becoming disenfranchised from the numerous incidents of computers crashing and because of the abnormally long lines at the polls.
But attorney Richard Westfall, representing the Republicans, countered that there had been no evidence that voters couldn’t go elsewhere to vote or return to the same poll at a later time.
Rappaport told lawyers for both parties she didn’t have the authority to keep the polls open, citing case law from the states of Missouri and Arkansas.
