Your vote countsOn Monday it was widely reported that the Democrats jumped out into the lead on the first day that people were really keeping track of ballot returns.  Today, the Democrats saw their share of the ballot count collapse a bit.

Yesterday’s results showed Democrats with 48,030 votes, which accounted for 42.2% of total ballots returned.  Today their share of the total ballots returned has slipped to 41.1%, while Republicans saw an uptick in their portion of the returns, moving from 32.3% to 33.0%.

This morning’s ballot chase break down is below:

Republican ballots returned: 94,499
Democrat ballots returned: 117,766
Unaffiliated ballots returned: 70,410

Other party ballots returned: 3,964

Some key counties are below:

Adams

Democrat: 7,249

Republican: 4,447

Total: 15,838

Arapahoe

Democrat: 14,391

Republican: 11,436

Total: 34,662

Denver

Democrat: 21,671

Republican: 4,999

Total: 35,017

Douglas

Democrat: 5,717

Republican: 9,406

Total: 20,235

El Paso

Democrat: 8,549

Republican: 13,195

Total: 29,546

Jefferson

Democrat: 15,930

Republican: 12,457

Total: 39,606

Weld

Democrat: 3,011

Republican: 4,050

Total: 9,440