DPS candidates await results
Denver Public Schools’ board candidates were gathering tonight for parties that will turn out to be either celebratory or consolatory as results begin rolling in after 7 p.m.
One results already was clear, however: “Voter turnout is low,” Tina Romero, spokeswoman for the city Elections Division said this afternoon.
Romero said the rate of return on the ballot, containing four school board races and an initiative about impounding the cars of unlicensed drivers, appears likely to fall in the 20 to 25 percent range.
During the last school board election, also an all-mail ballot in 2007, voter turnout was 45 percent.
As of the end of the day Monday, 63,885 ballots had been returned by voters and were deemed eligible. Another 39,456 ballots had been returned to the Elections Division as “undeliverable” by mail and 2,085 ballots had been rejected.
A total of 347, 726 ballots were mailed out beginning Oct. 16. That means 243,002 ballots were still out as of this morning.
A first round of results was scheduled to be released between 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Romero said those results will contain “primarily everything mailed before today.” Results are then expected to be released every 60 to 90 minutes.
