Sec. of State spokesman: Voting going 'very smoothly'

Election Day voting is going "very smoothly" across Colorado, according to Secretary of State spokesman Richard Coolidge.

"It's been a lot quieter than I thought it was going to be," Coolidge told PolitickerCO.com. "Everything is going very smoothly."

With 16 presidential nominees and 14 ballot initiatives, Colorado's ballot is the longest in the nation this year and the longest in Colorado since 1912.

In 2006, a series of missteps and disorganization by the Denver elections office caused polling place lines so large that up to 20,000 people gave up and went home before voting.

This year, some lines formed between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m., Coolidge said, but turnout since then has been less than expected.

"We didn't see a lunch rush to speak of, so we'll probably see some lines start to develop a little later this evening," he said.

Coolidge said all 64 counties will likely post their mail-in ballot and early voting totals about 8 p.m. on Tuesday. Arapahoe and Weld counties will likely be the first counties to post final election results, he said, as they use more electronic voting equipment. Both Arapahoe and Weld are key swing counties in the presidential race; Weld is a pivotal area in the neck-and-neck 4th Congressional District race.