UPDATE: The race just got another update. Boebert’s lead has shrunk another 9 votes or so:
Posted on 11/17/2022 11:35:36 AM PST by Red Badger
Boebert’s lead sits outside of the state’s automatic recount threshold, though Frisch can still request a recount
County clerks across the 3rd Congressional District began publishing their latest results Thursday from ballots mailed from outside the state by Colorado voters, and incumbent U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert appears to be holding her lead over Adam Frisch as the first results trickled in.
Boebert, a far-right Republican, took the lead in the race a week ago and held fast. As of 12:29 p.m. Thursday, the latest ballots put her in the lead by 1,088 votes, just a few less than the 1,122-vote margin she had over Frisch at the end of last week, according to the Secretary of State’s Office.
Political experts had expected a landslide victory for Boebert, but she’s only ahead now by a fraction of a percent. Her margin of victory sits outside the state’s automatic recount threshold of about 810 votes, a number equal to half of 1 percent of the top vote-getter’s tally.
If Boebert’s margin shrinks below that threshold — or if Frisch requests a recount — a winner in the race won’t be officially declared until sometime next month when the recount process is finished. Recounts rarely change the outcome of a given race, however.
More ballots are likely to be reported to the Secretary of State’s Office throughout Thursday and possibly into Friday, so the results could still change.
The ballots being counted so long after election day are those sent from Colorado voters who mailed their ballots from out of state, which can be counted so long as they arrived before 11:59 p.m. Wednesday. Ballots requiring additional signature verification could be counted until then as well.
As of Thursday morning, neither candidate had declared victory or conceded.
Frisch tweeted his thanks for volunteers who helped voters fix and count ballots throughout the election, one of the country’s closest.
“Running in this race, getting to know so many people in my district & hearing your stories has been an honor of a lifetime,” Frisch said on the social media site. “Stay tuned.”
Boebert didn’t address her race on Twitter but celebrated that Republicans had secured a majority, albeit a slim one, in the House, meaning a member of the GOP will replace U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House.
“The Pelosi era is over,” Boebert tweeted. “Good riddance!”
This is a developing story and will be updated.
UPDATE: The race just got another update. Boebert’s lead has shrunk another 9 votes or so:
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The ballots being counted so long after election day are those sent from Colorado voters who mailed their ballots from out of state, which can be counted so long as they arrived before 11:59 p.m. Wednesday.
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...of which month?
Count.
Recount.
Recount again.
Recount until the Dem wins then stop.........
How come Lauren Boebert is described as a far right Republican, but Fritch’s party is not even mentioned at all?
Going on almost 2 weeks now....fricken ridiculous.
Because it’s not right to be biased.....................
Some enterprising investigator should see how many times a recount changed the outcome and how often it went for "D." My gut sense tells me 90% of all audits, reviews, recounts, ballot "curing," magically "found" ballots, counting of ballots days or weeks after the election, etc go for "D."
The RAT winning ballots are sitting in a car trunk or closet somewhere. They’ll be the last bananas brought in and handed over to the tallymen.
If she “pulls this off”, it will be taken by Lauren as a message from the deep state - we’ll let you be selected this time, but don’t stray too far. Next time it won’t go your way. Lauren must know well, those in office at this point are ALL sElected, not elected.
I cannot recall even one instance when the continuous recounts ever gave the Republican a victory..............
I read in another thread Frisch showed up in DC for orientation. ??????
Hubris........................
But, but, but — our esteemed sec o state, the criminal Griswold, repeatedly claims Colorado’s mail ballot system is one of the nation’s best since we’ve been using this system for 10+\- years and we have it perfected (plenty of time to fine tune the cheating process, unlike those dem operative pikers in AZ).
I really dislike this Soros SOS lackie.
A 3 vote majority would very helpful. I believe 2 of the impeachment traitors are still there.
“... as clerks begin reporting the last of their ballots”
Unless some Republican areas hold out and refuse to report until all the Democrat areas report, the lead will probably not last.
Frisch landed in D.C. a couple of days ago for freshman orientation. So maybe he was given a heads up about the result.
On the other hand vote counting has been dragging on, which could indicate that efforts to ‘cure’ Dem ballots hasn’t resulted, yet, in enough Dem votes.
Either way, I’ve read where Colorado law requires an official update to be given by tomorrow, Friday.
Well, last time I remember is Bush vs. Gore in Florida. At least when they did statewide recounts, Bush kept gaining votes. That’s why Gore wanted recounts only in Dem-heavy areas.
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