What to expect on election night in Colorado

The November 2022 Midterm elections are actually upon us and News5 is ready to deliver you realtime protection main as much as and after ballots are due in Colorado.

If in case you have not already registered to vote in Colorado or haven’t solid your poll, you are able to do so in particular person up till 7pm on election evening. The deadline to mail in your poll and have it’s counted in outcomes lapsed final week.

Observe your poll utilizing the BallotTrax system which follows from when it was mailed to when it was obtained and counted by your native Clerk & Recorder’s Workplace.

The Colorado Secretary of State’s Workplace additionally offers an easy-to-use search function for locating a polling location and drop field close to you.

News5 will deliver you up-to-the-minute data in our newscasts starting with News5 at 4pm and into primetime alongside updates from NBC Information.

We’ll additionally carry prolonged election protection on our KOAA News5 reside streaming platforms for KOAA.com, the News5 cell app, and in your Roku, FireTV, AppleTV and Android TV. Simply search KOAA News5, obtain and begin watching.

Primetime protection on streaming platforms begins at 8:00pm (or earlier if outcomes are available in) and thru News5 at 10pm with the most recent updates on nationwide elections and evaluation, adopted by reside protection from News5’s Alasyn Zimmerman, Rob Quirk, and Dianne Derby on native jurisdiction and statewide elections. You may additionally see updates from News5 reporters within the subject following the large candidate races and points impacting Colorado.

Counties and the Colorado Secretary of State’s Workplace might start releasing the outcomes of ballots counted quickly after polls shut. Relying on the jurisdiction, we might see outcomes are available in repeatedly via the early night.

Outcomes from smaller counties are usually not up to date a number of instances within the night. Traditionally, we have seen a preliminary rely earlier than 8pm adopted by a bigger rely launched round 10pm.

Take into account the outcomes aren’t ultimate till licensed by an elections board and/or the Colorado Secretary of State’s Workplace.

News5 does depend on election knowledge collected by the Related Press from the Colorado Secretary of State’s Workplace for native races and for elections exterior of Colorado, as do all media retailers. We don’t name winners in races, as a substitute, we are going to present attribution to which information group is declaring winners based mostly on their statistical evaluation. The identical is true for NBC Information election protection and evaluation on races throughout the nation.

Key races to look at this yr are all throughout Colorado, together with a US Senate seat, a brand new US Home district, all State Home and State Senate seats, a number of statewide propositions, and a handful of marijuana-related points in our communities. (See beneath for what’s on the poll in your jurisdiction.)

Get an in-depth take a look at how elections are run in Colorado’s bigger jurisdictions, with Andy Koen’s dialog with El Paso County Clerk & Recorder Chuck Broerman as he invitations us to examine the work of his workplace for ourselves.

Get a head begin now with News5’s Election Watch protection of the 2022 candidates and points:

News5 helps you put together for Election 2022 with guides to search out out what’s on the poll, what it means to you, and the place to ship your poll throughout the area. Click on right here for our Election Information.