2016 POST-ELECTION REPORT BY THE NUMBERS

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1 boulder county ELECTIONS CONNECT ENGAGE VOTE POST-ELECTION REPORT BY THE NUMBERS

2 VOTER + VOTING STATS VOTER REGISTRATION Total Number of Active Voters: 215,378 REGISTRATION GROWTH Unity Party 43 American Constitution Party 297 Green Party 1, , , ,378 Libertarian Party 2,520 Republican Party 37,174 Unaffiliated Voters 77,080 Democratic Party 97,034 TOTAL ACTIVE REGISTERED VOTERS WHERE BOULDER COUNTY REGISTERED VOTERS Lyons 0.7% Longmont 25.9% RESIDE Jamestown 0.1% Erie 3.1% Ward 0.1% Nederland 0.5% Boulder 33.6% Lafayette 8.7% Louisville 6.9% Superior 3.6% Unincorporated 16.7% Page 2

3 VOTER + VOTING STATS VOTER TURNOUT 10% 10.7% 9.2% 15.9% 13.9% 14.3% 20% 15.1% 30% TURNOUT BY SEX 23.4% 23.0% 40% 35.8% 38.8% TURNOUT BY AGE & Over 96.1% 74.6% 89.3% 48% Female Male TURNOUT BY YEAR 52% TURNOUT BY STATE, COUNTY AND CITY Boulder County 89.3% TURNOUT BY PARTY Unity Party American Constitution Party Green Party COLORADO 85.2% Lyons 91.8% Longmont 88.5% 71.8% Jamestown 91.7% 80.3% 88.8% Erie 92.2% Libertarian Party Republican Party Unaffiliated Voters Democratic Party 85.4% Ward 75.7% 92.3% 85.9% Nederland 89.1% 93.5% Boulder 90.6% Lafayette 90.6% Louisville 93.1% Superior 91% Unincorporated 91.7% *All turnout calculated from total number of active voters. Page 3

4 VOTER + VOTING STATS 16 VOTING METHOD Total number of in-person voting locations Total Ballots Cast: 192,822 1, ,592 13,230 Voted with a Mail Ballot Voted at a Service Center Number of people who registered or changed their registration & voted on Election Day 93% Boulder County voters who voted by mail ballot HOW VOTERS RETURNED THEIR BALLOTS * 83% of Mail Ballot Voters return their ballot directly to us (not by mail) 14% 18% Drive-by Ballot Drop-off location 1% Military and Overseas Voters by Electronic Transmission or Health Care Facility Post Office 50% 24-Hour Ballot Drop Box 17% Returned Mail Ballot to a Voter Service Center MOST POPULAR 24-HOUR DROP BOXES * For those that returned their mail ballots using Boulder County Elections 24-Hour Drop Boxes Garden Acres Park Longmont YMCA , , , CU Campus UMC Boulder County Housing & Human Services Superior Town Hall South Boulder Recreation Center Boulder County Fairgrounds Louisville Police Department Boulder County Courthouse Longmont Office - County Clerk & Recorder Boulder Office - County Clerk & Recorder Lafayette Public Library 0 * Estimates for these items are based off our Ballot Box Tracking System, which provides estimates of the number of ballots based on weight of returned ballot boxes. Page 4

5 CONDUCTING THE GENERAL ELECTION STAFFING THE ELECTION Number of people contacted to work the election. Number of Temporary Election Judges and Workers Hired for the Election. Number of people who worked on Election Day. Plus 15 full time staff!!! W he re di d pe o pl e wo r k? 237 Bal l o t Pro ce ssi n g 295 Vo te r Se r v i ce Ce n te rs POST-ELECTION WORK CONTINUES 20 temps/judges Average Number of people 15 full-time staff Pa rt y bre a kd ow n o f wo rke rs a n d j u d g es 15% working from the Day after 49% Election through Saturday, 11/19 to finish processing, auditing and reconciliation 36% and counting Re p ub l i c a n Othe r voter records 115,000 D e mo crat over 66,000 pounds of paper were needed to print Boulder County s Number of voter records updated or processed two-sheet 11x17 ballot Page 5

6 VOTER COMMUNICATION VOTER PROGRAM s to Voters with Helpful Election Info and Deadlines 6 292, % 99,777 21,767 Action s sent Total number of s sent Average Open Rate Total Unique Opens Unique clicks on links Ballot Track Users for the General Election Types of links: 20,524 Checking voter registration Finding a 24-hour box Signing up for Ballot Track ELECTIONS WEBSITE STATS Voters signed up to receive , text and/or phone alerts about the status of their mail ballot ELECTION PERIOD 28, ,201 25,514 92,254 21, ,730 Total homepage views ELECTION DAY ONLY Page 6

7 VOTER COMMUNICATION SOCIAL MEDIA Election Period: Sept 1 Nov 8 40,800 impressions Top 3 Tweets 84 Number of Tweets sent 139 Number of Re-tweets 772 Tweet Engagement Total number of times a user has interacted with a Tweet. This includes all clicks anywhere on the tweet, retweets, replies, follows, and likes. 18,137 people reached MOST POPULAR & SHARED POST 28 POSTS 150 POST SHARES 262 POST LIKES 185 Likes, Loves 71 Shares This post was also a sponsored post. Page 7