DENVER, Colorado -- A district court judge has ruled against holding the polls open an extra two hours in Denver.

There are still long lines here at the Denver Botanical Garden, one of 55 voting centers around the city. An election official tells me the bottleneck occurred due to the new registration process.

Laptops connected the polling places to the city's central voter database. Volunteers would check-in voters, using the Internet to see which precinct they were registered in and whether they had voted yet.

The system crashed around noon and was down for about an hour. It is back up and running and they've added 32 new laptops around the city to speed the registration process. It seems to be helping.

Sigrid Freese, a polling center official, says if people are in line by 7 p.m. mountain time, the polls will stay open until everyone has voted, even if it means staying open all night.