(KEVIN KRECK, THE GAZETTE)
Election officials tallied votes in this year’s local elections at El Paso County government’s downtown office at Centennial Hall, 200 S. Cascade Ave., on Tuesday night.
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Election results for El Paso and Teller counties
November 07, 2007 3:00 AM
THE GAZETTE
Off-year elections don’t tend to fire up the grass roots, even when voters can participate from the comfort of their own homes.
Twenty-nine percent of El Paso County voters participated in this year’s mail-ballot election for school board, city council and mayoral races and money questions.
The first countywide mail-ballot election was in 2001. It garnered a 31 percent voter turnout.
Odd-year polling place elections in 1999 and 2003 produced 26 percent and 27 percent voter turnout, respectively.
The 2005 polling place election saw a 35 percent turnout. That year had a hotly contested Colorado Springs School District 11 board race on the ballot.
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