More than 280,000 ballots had been returned for as of Friday morning, with registered Republican voters leading the pack by far.
Registered Democrats sent in 92,842 ballots with unaffiliated voters returning 74,328 of their own, according to the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office. Republicans returned 112,034 ballots.
Voters ages 18-25 remained the group to return the least number of ballots, with voters 71 and over submitting the most.
Ballots — which includes everything from school board races to local measures — went out last week in all but six of the state’s 64 counties. The counties not participating in the fall election have no contested races or local ballot measures.
, the fall election features no statewide ballot measures.
There are more than However, turnout for off-year elections is typically much smaller than during a presidential election year.
Also, in Denver about one-third of all ballots are turned in on Election Day itself.
As of Friday morning, 21,454 ballots had been returned in Denver. The city has a host of issues before voters, namely , school board races and an initiative that would mandate that the roofs of large new buildings .
Officials are urging voters who are mailing in their ballots to do so at least a week before the Nov. 7 Election Day — that’s — to ensure their ballots are counted. Ballots that aren’t in the possession of a county clerk’s office by 7 p.m. on election day don’t count.
