Parties and special interests are scrambling Election Day to make every vote count – or at least get it in the ballot box.

“I tell them it’s an historic election and they need to participate,” said Neil Whitehead III, a 69-year-old Vietnam veteran from Conifer who was one of about a dozen volunteers working the phones at the Republican Party’s Jefferson County field office on Youngfield Street in Golden.

“This is a history-making election that will determine the future of our country, and then I encourage them to vote Republican.”

Democrats have been rolling a blue and white bus with “Stronger Together” in giant letters on the side across the state. It made one of its last stops in Denver at noon Tuesday with a collection of top Democrats, including U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and Gov, John Hickenlooper.

“Now we’re down to the last straw,” Hickenlooper said in a strip mall parking lot off Santa Fe Drive. “What happens in the next seven hours here in Colorado could affect not just what happens hot just in this country but in the world.

“It doesn’t happen often in life you get a chance to play a role on that stage. And each of us is going to have that chance to make calls and knock on some doors and to really push that final push.”

The man who never ran a negative ad during his two campaigns for governor or two for Denver mayor added, “This is the clearest contrast in candidates I’ve ever seen in my life, that anyone could ever imagine.”

He said a lot of good things about Hillary Clinton, then added, “On the other side, you have a problem.”

In the Jefferson County GOP field office, Sandy Killian, 63, of Lakewood saw Clinton as the problem and Trump as the solution.

“I’m totally against Hillary Clinton,” she said, taking a break from the phones. “We need somebody stronger in there. Immigration is big on my list – not bringing in more people to take away our jobs, and jobs is an important issue to me. We need more jobs.”

Trump was not expected to do well with Latino voters.

At the Denver Democratic rally, state Senate Democratic leader Lucia Guzman called out Maria Amaro, a 69-year-old Hispanic woman from Denver who was working to elect Bennet.

“I’m here,” she called back, saying later she was referring to Hispanic voters. “I’m everywhere.”

Exit polling of Latino voters in Colorado conducted by five left-leaning organizations found that the most important issue i the election to those voters were immigration reform (35 percent), the economy (28 percent), education (18 percent) and healthcare (17 percent).

“Stopping Trump” collected just 10 percent in the survey by America’s Voice, the Service Employees International Union, Latino Victory Fund., Mi Familia Vota and the National Council of La Raza..

Chad Medina, a Hispanic voter who happened to be in the shopping mall where the Democrats were rallying, said he was motivated not just by issues but also the candidates’ personalities.

“She’s very polite,” he said of Clinton. “She doesn’t talk with curse words and stuff like that. Trump, he’s smarter than the generals, this guy.”