By BRIAN PORTER | The Rocky Mountain Voice
Election Day voting pushed turnout above 30.5% Tuesday and Republican Party primary ballots past 600,000, an 11 a.m. report from the secretary of state’s office detailed.
There have been 1,155,302 ballots cast among 3,786,720 registered voters, with 59.1% of returned and counted ballots being voted in the Republican Party’s primary election. Ballots cast in the Democratic Party’s primary election trails by 18.3%, with 140,272 ballots in process.
Unaffiliated voters have cast about 37.9% of all ballots in the primary election, with those voters casting 438,399 ballots. Almost half of the unaffiliated ballots cast – 204,172 – have been cast in the Republican Party’s primary, with 94,037 cast in the Democratic Party’s primary.
Voting from the younger population picked up some in the early moments of Election Day, with ballots cast by those ages 45 and older falling to 78.5% of all ballots from 80.1% of ballots at the start of Election Day.
While voting by women had the ballot lead throughout the final week of voting, men took a slight edge in the Republican Party’s primary at the midday report.