El Paso County voter turnout at just 21% ahead of November election, clerk encourages early voting
With fewer than two weeks to go before the Nov. 5 general election, voter turnout in El Paso County has only reached 21% — though officials anticipate it could hit as high as 90% on Election Day, thanks to a tense presidential race and a slew of congressional, state and local races and ballot issues to decide this year.
Data from the county Clerk and Recorder's Office's new voter information portal, last updated 10 a.m. Friday, show 104,126 of 489,030 active, registered voters have returned ballots.
The data does not include ballots from absentee voters or confidential voters who have paid a fee to protect their voting information because the voter information portal allows people to collect data down to the precinct level, clerk's officials said.
The total number of ballots not included was unclear, but Clerk and Recorder Steve Schleiker said the figure is not large enough to substantially change the data.
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