November 01, 2010 07:41 PM UTC

How Many Votes Are Still Out There?

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• by: Colorado Pols

We’ve updated the ballot counts from Friday, which shows 924,466 votes counted as of Friday afternoon. The Secretary of State will provide another batch of ballot numbers today after 3:00 p.m., and tomorrow at about Noon.

So just how many votes are going to be coming in on Election Day? For comparison’ sake, here’s how the last two elections break down:

2008

Total Votes: 2,422,236

Percentage of “Active” Voters Casting a Ballot: 91.68%

2006

Total Votes: 1,586,105

Percentage of “Active” Voters Casting a Ballot: 62.59%

There’s virtually no chance that we’re going to see 2008 levels of turnout. But we should surpass 2006, depending on how many non “Active” voters decide to cast a ballot; as of Friday, Democrats and Republicans saw “Active” voter turnout at 41-44%, so there’s still a way to go to reach the 62.59% of 2006.

Our guess is that total turnout ends up somewhere in the 1.8 million range, which means that as of Friday, we’re a little more than halfway to the total. But what say you, Polsters?