DENVER — Early in the third day of of the 2022 midterm election, incumbent U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert overtook Adam Frisch with a small lead in the race, but thousands more ballots have yet to be counted.
As of 4:23 p.m. Mountain time Thursday, Boebert led Frisch by 1,229 votes at a slim margin of 50.19% to 49.81%, according to vote tallies from the secretary of state’s office. Previously Frisch held an even more narrow lead with just a few dozen votes.
But the race is far from over. Pueblo County Clerk Gilbert Ortiz confirmed to The Denver Post early Thursday that his office had yet to count thousands of in-person and mail-in ballots, plus his staff was in the process of verifying the signatures of another 500 or more ballots. Ortiz’s office is expected to filter updated vote counts to state election officials throughout the day.
