By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice
More than a third of all active Colorado voters had not cast a ballot entering Election Day, a report from the secretary of state’s office reads.
Coloradans had cast 2,507,472 ballots as of the opening of polls on Election Day. There were 4,045,182 active voters as of that time. Colorado is a same-day registration state. As of the start of Election Day, 61.9% of registered voters have cast ballots.
Unaffiliated voters have cast 43.1% of all ballots cast entering Election Day. Republicans have outperformed their registrations, with 26.8% of all ballots cast and Democrats matching their registrations with 28.4% of ballots cast. Republicans represent 23.3% of all registered voters.
The ballot tally as of the start of Election Day indicates of the 712,788 ballots cast by registered Democrats, 60.0% have been cast by women and 39.3% by men. The Republican ballot tally indicates men have cast 51.5% of ballots, with women casting 48.1% of ballots.
Republican men have a 66,328 ballot lead on Democrat men, but Democrat women had cast 104,241 more ballots than Republican women entering Election Day. It places Democrats with a 40,630 ballot lead over Republicans.
Republicans hold a ballot count advantage for all persons age 55 and above, with Democrats holding a ballot lead for those ages 54 and below. An anomaly in the age 75-and-over age bracket is more Republican ballots being cast than unaffiliated ballots. It is the only age division for a party to outperform unaffiliated voters in ballot count.
The age 55-and-older age range, where Republicans hold a ballot count lead, accounts for 47.9% of all ballots cast.
Following is a glance at the top 10 counties in ballot count entering Election Day:
El Paso – 307,771
Jefferson – 289,800
Denver – 265,710
Arapahoe – 250,899
Douglas – 204,035
Larimer – 177,960
Adams – 169,757
Boulder – 154,301
Weld – 135,085
Mesa – 76,494