Some 612,000 ballots had been returned as of Friday morning across Colorado, with registered Republican voters holding the lead in getting their votes in just a few days before .
Registered Republican voters have returned 236,423 ballots, trailed by registered Democrats with 204,199 ballots returned and unaffiliated voters at 164,755 ballots returned.
Voters between 18 and 25 with the lowest number of ballots returned as of Friday morning, having submitted just 20,473 ballots, according to the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office.
Ballots have to be in the possession of Colorado’s county clerks by 7 p.m. on Tuesday, which means . Instead, you must drop them off at a designated location. (Denver across the city.)
All but six of the state’s 64 counties are holding elections this year. The counties not participating in the fall election have no contested races or local ballot measures.
Also, , the fall election features no statewide ballot measures.
There are more than 3.7 million registered voters in the state. However, turnout for off-year elections is typically much smaller than during a presidential election year.
In Denver, it’s important to note as well, that about one-third of all ballots typically are turned in on Election Day itself.
So far in the city, where voters are deciding , a nearly $1 billion bond package and the Green Roof Initiative, 53,949 ballots have been returned.
Douglas County, which is in the midst of a school board contest, has seen 54,636 ballots returned.
