voter turnout
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Turnout surges and winning margins stretch as final returns post in Colorado’s 2026 primary
County clerks finished posting unofficial results in Colorado’s primary election on Friday, drawing a line under a series of nominating contests that witnessed upsets, surprises and outright shockers by the time the votes were tallied. While the outcome changed in only one major, top-ticket race after the initial returns were reported on June 30, several…
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Mobolade, Colorado Springs leaders say election date lawsuit is attack on local voters
Mayor Yemi Mobolade and other city leaders will fight to keep Colorado Springs elections in April in the face of a new lawsuit. Mobolade, the mayor’s Chief of Staff Wayne Williams and City Councilmember Roland Rainey addressed the lawsuit in a news conference Thursday morning. The lawsuit filed on Wednesday argued that holding municipal elections…
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Colorado election bill seeks to expand tribal voting, disclose candidate income
Update: Senate Bill 276 passed the Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee Thursday in a 5-0 vote. It will next be sent to the Senate Appropriations Committee. Colorado lawmakers will soon consider a host of changes to the state’s election system with the introduction of Senate Bill 276 on Tuesday. The near-annual election “clean…
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Colorado Latinos voted for Democrats in dominant fashion, exit poll shows
Latino voters in Colorado overwhelmingly backed Democratic candidates this election, contributing to the failure of the so-called “red wave” in the state. The Colorado Latino Exit Poll found that 72% of respondents voted for Democrats in congressional races – including in the new 8th Congressional District that has a nearly 40% Latino population. In CD…
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Colorado’s 2022 ballot returns still 9,000 short of 2018 turnout
Colorado’s ballot returns for the 2022 election climbed to nearly 2.56 million, but they still fell short of the voter turnout during the last midterm election. As of 11:59 p.m. Sunday, 2,557,562 ballots were returned, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. That total is 9,222 fewer than the 2,566,784 ballots that were cast in Colorado in…
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Colorado’s 2022 ballot returns only 16,000 short of 2018 turnout
Colorado’s ballot returns for the 2022 election hit more than 2.5 million, nearly reaching voter turnout during the 2018 midterm election after weeks of underperformance. As of 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, 2,550,784 ballots were returned, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. That is exactly 16,000 ballots short of the 2,566,784 ballots that were cast in Colorado in…
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El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s Office still processing thousands of ballots
The El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s Office was still processing about 70,000 ballots on Wednesday after voters submitted a record 100,000 ballots on Tuesday, Election Day, officials said. “People really moved on the last day to either return their ballot by mail or vote in person,” said outgoing Clerk and Recorder Chuck Broerman, who…
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Colorado’s ballot returns climb to over 2.4 million
More than 2.4 million ballots have been returned in Colorado, narrowing the gap between voter turnout during the 2022 and 2018 midterm elections after weeks of underperformance. As of 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, 2,444,585 ballots were returned, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. This number is expected to increase as counting continues in county clerk…
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ELECTION 2022 | The ‘unrealized potential’ of Latino voters in Colorado elections
From Spanish-language campaign ads to pleas to Latino voters during debates, Latino Coloradans took center stage in this year’s election – and for good reason. In 2020, 21.9% of Colorado’s population identified as Hispanic or Latino, according to Census results – the highest share since the 1870s. In the last decade, the Latino population of Fort…
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Colorado turnout trails past elections: Only 35% of voters have returned ballots
With only one day remaining until Election Day, just over 35% of voters have returned their ballots so far, according to Monday’s data from the Secretary of State’s Office. As of 11:59 p.m. Sunday, around 1.34 million ballots were returned out of the over 3.81 million active registered voters in Colorado. That’s an increase of…