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Too Late To Mail Your Ballot: Secretary of State
As of Monday, Republicans outpaced Democrats in returned ballots statewide.
BOULDER, CO – Coloradans can still vote–and even register–right up until election day. As of Monday, however, Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams recommends that you no longer return your ballot via the U.S. Postal Service. The postmark isn't enough, explains the secretary of state's office, and the ballot must be physically in the hands of an election official by 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 6.
Instead, voters can still turn in ballots at 24-hour drop-off locations around the state, or vote at the polls on Election Day.
"I have worked very hard to provide funding for our county clerks to set up 24-hour drop boxes so voters can drop off their ballots any time of the day or night," Williams said in a press release. "In Colorado, we want to make it as easy as possible for people to vote."
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As of Monday, 618,942 ballots had been received and validated. Of those 219,064 were from registered Republican voters and 216,653 from Democrats. This was the first year that unaffiliated voters could vote in the governor's race primary in June, and 176,143 unaffiliated voters have already cast their ballots in this year's general election.
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In Boulder County, 25,430 Democrats have voted compared to 7,967 Republicans. Women are slightly outpacing men, 24,838 to 22,953, and there have been 456 gender-unidentified ballots cast. Of the 246,110 registered voters in the county as of Oct. 1, 2018 according to Boulder County Elections statistics, 19.6 percent have voted.
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