Candidates Make Last Minute Push For Mayor
DENVER (CBS4) - The candidates for mayor of Denver are making a last minute push for votes. They're encouraging people to turn in their ballots.
Recent polls show the front runners are James Mejia, Chris Romer and Michael Hancock. All three were campaigning on Saturday by going door-to-door and making calls.
The election is mail-in only, but there are places where people can drop off ballots. There are 13 voter service centers across the Denver metro area for voters where they can not only drop off ballots, but get replacement ballots, do emergency voter registration, or even just pick up a ballot if they never received one.
Five of the locations, like the one at the Denver Elections Division on 200 West 14th Avenue, have drive up drop off boxes for voters.
Michael Hancock took to the streets of Denver in what he calls his ballot bus -- making stops all over the metro area. Once stopped, he took to neighborhood streets on foot as he's done for most of his campaign.
"We're reminding folks to get their ballots in, of course it's a little too late to mail it, and so we're giving them instructions on how to get them in, the voting centers around town, and when we can we're taking the ballots on their behalf and dropping them off for them," Hancock said.
Chris Romer made last minute calls in person to voters, hoping to capture votes from those who haven't made a decision yet, but more importantly, he encourages people to vote.
"We're excited because we're getting our voters to the polls, people are really getting excited by the election -- they're excited about my message of putting people back to work," Romer said.
A phone bank was one of a long list of events and activities on Romer's 24-hour tour, which started Saturday morning and will continue into Sunday with a midnight stop at Denver International Airport and a 2:30 a.m. visit to Pete's Kitchen on Colfax.
James Mejia and his family also went door-to-door hoping to capture support and to get people involved in the election as there's still time to do so. His campaign has been saturated with meet and greets, phone banks, and meetings at neighborhood homes.
"We've been calling voters and identifying who's with us, who's persuadable, and getting people to vote -- it's a ballot chase for the last few days here," Mejia said.
It's too late to mail in ballots. The suggested cut off for mailing was on Friday.
For more information, visit denvergov.org.
