Volunteers rushing to encourage voters before Election Day

It’s down to the final hours of campaigning and volunteers will be working through the night urging voters to make their voices heard.

Right now, the candidates are likely on edge, even with hours left in the campaign. It’s anyone’s guess as to who is going to win several races in Colorado.

Which is why Democratic and Republican party volunteers in El Paso County, are trying to get everyone who can, to cast their ballot.

If there’s one thing both parties agree on, it’s that you should vote.

“They’re very short on deadline here, they can’t mail it in,” said volunteer Dennis Moore.

“It is the basic right that we have,” said volunteer Martha De Ulibarri.

They’re making calls and pounding the pavement.

To get people here, one of 25 voter registration centers in the county.

“We’ve been asked by family and friends, especially about how to get their votes out,” Moore said.

“We don’t have the right to complain about what’s going on and what’s happening to us in the government unless we are part of the whole process,” said De Ulibarri.

Both parties say a majority of voters have told them they already cast their ballots and the secretary of state said about 100,000 more Republicans have cast their ballots than Democrats.

But until the polls close Tuesday night, these workers will be out.

“This is the final push. You know how hard everyone has worked, how hard the candidates worked. We just have to keep plowing forward,” said De Ulibarri.

“I have 40 years in the military, I’ve been voting since I was 18, I was involved in the Civil Rights movement. I do not miss a vote, It’s too important, too many people have died for that right,” said Moore

Those volunteers said they’re in for a long day ahead before the winners are announced Tuesday night, but they feel it’s worth it to encourage others to the polls.