OUTSIDE DRY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, CENTENNIAL- Brian Johnson didn't vote early because he was on the road, driving truck. So he showed up at Dry Creek Elementary School to cast his ballot.

"I brought a sample ballot," he said. "My parents taught me well."

The sorry economy has affected Johnson, 45, of Centennial.

"This economy is in trouble," he said. "I saw what it did to my business. That's why I'm not trucking right now. We hauled scrap steel. And the price dropped 75 percent without warning in a couple of days. So we just parked our trucks and came home."

Johnson said he has voted in elections past, but was particularly motivated to vote in this one.

"We've got to make some changes," he said.

He declined to say who he voted for.