Mark Udall has now moved to within 2% of Gardner

[Tender Branson]

Latest vote totals:

48.20% - 983,103 votes - Cory Gardner (REP)
46.27% - 943,585 votes - Mark Udall (DEM)

Gardner leads by 1.93% (down from about 6% on election day).

CO's turnout is now 57%.

http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CO/53335/149509/Web01/en/summary.html

[Tender Branson]

This is somewhat interesting, because I also checked the results page yesterday and yesterday Udall was down by 2.14% and today by 1.93%, a gain of 0.21% !

Which votes are they still counting ?

[Tender Branson]

At what rate does Colorado normal vote at in Presidentia years and what was it in 2010?

That is 20% higher then nationally. For all the talk about low turnout deciding the outcome, the hot races seem to have turned out pretty well (CO, ME etc). The places that didn't had nothing contested like IN.

I think the map in the Senate and gerrymandering in the House are somewhat responsbile for the low turnout numbers.

2008: 76% turnout (among active & inactive registered voters)
2010: 55% turnout
2012: 71% turnout
2014: 57% turnout (so far)

[Tender Branson]

Come on Mark, you can do it!

I do wonder how and why they're still counting votes though. From what I understood of the Colorado law, all votes had to be received by election day at 7pm. It's not like some other mail vote states where it only has to be post-marked by election day. Why are they not done yet?

Well, mail-in voting "only" accounted for 1.6 million votes.

There are also 500.000 election day voters (so far), some of them might have only registered on election day.

I think they are taking a close look at these voters to verify them, which could take some time.