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Mar 18, 2008 9:01 pm US/Mountain
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Glitches Halt Lottery For Park Permits At DNC
DENVER (CBS4/AP) ―
A lottery determining which groups will get permits to use Denver parks around the time of the Democratic National Convention has been halted while city officials respond to complaints that members of a protest group were left out of the process.
Katherine Archuleta, the city's liaison for the convention, said Tuesday the lottery has been rescheduled for Thursday.
Barbara Cohen, a member of the Denver-based group Recreate '68, said her name was left off applications for four of the five days she sought a permit for Civic Center Park in downtown Denver.
"How do you suppose that happened?" Cohen said. "It looks like the only day I have a card here for is Aug. 27. Yeah, what we'd like to do is take a break."
"This is what we call democracy, where we have to worry about our permits being pulled out of a lottery system that we wouldn't have even noticed if Barbara Cohen hadn't noticed it," Glenn Spagnuolo with Recreate '68 said.
Archuleta said the database of applicants appears to be accurate, but some of those applicants didn't make it onto the tickets that were to be drawn from a box.
The dispute adds one more hitch in the contentious race for access to the public areas near the convention, which will be held at the Pepsi Center west of downtown Aug. 25th through the 28th.
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