Boebert campaign investigating voting patterns as Laubacher leads

Lauren Boebert’s campaign said it is investigating what it called unusual voting patterns in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District race and expects a recount, as Democrat Eileen Laubacher led in Thursday’s reported results. The campaign has not identified the patterns it is examining or presented evidence of illegal votes in its statement. Campaign attorney Scott Gessler said a significant number of ballots remained outstanding and that the campaign would continue monitoring the count. He said ballot returns since election night had reduced Laubacher’s lead, which remained below one percentage point in the reported figures. His statement did not explain what specific activity prompted the investigation. The reported lead changed as ballots were counted. One Thursday afternoon snapshot put Laubacher ahead by 2,276 votes through 2 p.m. Later Thursday reports placed her lead at about 0.9%, or roughly 3,000 votes. Those are time-specific results, not a final count. One late-Thursday report estimated that about 12,000 ballots remained, most of them in Arapahoe County. It said the county had reported 85% of its votes, with Laubacher receiving 60.9% and Boebert 35.8% there. Boebert...