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Officials urge Coloradans to vote by absentee ballot

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Some Colorado counties stand ready to help voters cast their ballots by mail to alleviate concerns about potential tampering or other problems with computerized voting machines.

In fact, Denver and Arapahoe counties are urging citizens to vote absentee with mailed paper ballots, simply because November's ballot is so long.

A Denver judge ruled Friday that the computerized machines had not been tested sufficiently for security vulnerabilities.

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Jefferson County is recommending mail ballots to voters who are worried about security, said elections director Susan Miller.

The secretary of state did an "abysmal" job of security testing on the new touch-screen machines, Denver District Judge Lawrence Manzanares ruled Friday. But he said it was too late to bar the machines from the election, as plaintiffs in the lawsuit requested.

Instead, the judge ordered the state and plaintiffs' attorneys to devise new election security rules to ensure that no one can get to the machines to tamper with them.

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The Democratic Party and the Democratic and Republican candidates for secretary of state have suggested that voters cast absentee ballots.