Ballots returned: June 27, 2018

DENVER, June 27, 2018 -- Colorado's primary election is over, with 1,158,700 Coloradans returning ballots as of 12:17 this morning, Secretary of State Wayne Williams announced.

Of that, 465,331 ballots were cast by Democrats, 412,411 by Republicans and 280,958 by unaffiliated voters. The report is attached.

County clerks are still processing ballots. July 5 is the last day for a military-and-overseas ballot to arrive, and the last day for a voter to cure a missing signature or a signature discrepancy.

The ballot-return reports do not list the number of Coloradans who voted in person at a Voter Service and Polling Center, which opened on June 18. The total is 13,546 voters, with 9,647 casting Democratic ballots and 3,899 voting Republican ballots. That report is also attached, and it breaks down whether the voter used a machine or a paper ballot.

This is the first primary election where unaffiliated voters are allowed to automatically participate. Unaffiliated voters who expressed a preference for a Republican or Democratic ballot were sent that party's ballot, but those who did not were sent both ballots with the caveat: Only vote one, if you vote both neither ballot will count. Secretary Williams in March launched the UChooseCO campaign to stress to unaffiliated voters to pick one ballot.

The new style of report reflects information about unaffiliated voters. It breaks down ballots by those voters who expressed a preference for the Republican or Democratic ballot. "Pkt" refers to "packets" for unaffiliated voters who got both ballots in the mail. Pkt-Dem and Pkt-Rep indicates which ballot the voter chose. In some cases, the ballots have been received by the clerk but have not yet been tallied so the preference is unknown. That is "pkt-unopened."

Ballot received by age, party and gender (PDF)

In-person voting (PDF)