More than 2.2 million of Colorado’s nearly 3.3 million registered voters had turned in their mail-in ballots by Election Day, according to the Colorado Secretary of State’s office, with Republican voters slightly ahead of Democratic voters.

The early Election Day tally showed Republican voters cast 771,745 ballots, Democratic voters cast 753,052 ballots and unaffiliated, or independent, voters cast 656,882 ballots.

Despite the large number of early returned ballots, some counties expected a long night of tallying votes.

As reported by the Fort Collins Coloradoan, Larimer County elections officials do not expect to complete ballot counting until as late as mid-day Wednesday. Clerk and Recorder Angela Myers told the Coloradoan that she had set a limit of counting only 20,000 ballots turned in on Election Day before she plans to send vote counters home for the night. Myers said that is partly due to mail-in ballots: despite the convenience they give voters, they take more time to process than votes cast at traditional polling stations due to security measures.

Elections officials in both Denver and Arapahoe counties told The Colorado Statesman that if a heavy last-minute rush of ballot returns happens today and tonight, they would likely send election judges home early Wednesday morning, to avoid any potential early morning vote-counting mistakes. Vote tallying would then resume later Wednesday morning.

On the other side of the coin, the election is already over for a small town in New Hampshire.