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Denver Post, Appointed U.S. Sen. Michael Bennett will be elected to the U.S. Senate after pulling ahead of rival Ken Buck this morning.

Returned early today from Denver and Boulder last Bennet Buck moved up front, 47.5 percent to 47.1 percent.

A recount would be necessary if the difference between total votes of the two candidates is less than half of 1 percent of the total number of votes, or about 3,900 votes on the basis of actual counts.

Bennet leads by about 7,000 votes with about 30,000 yet to be counted in Boulder County.

Early in the morning telling also added clarity to a state Senate race in Colorado Springs, but the count is likely to decide whether medical marijuana businesses get the start of the unincorporated areas of El Paso.

local voters helped Senate candidate Ken Buck GOP win the slimmest of leads over Democratic incumbent Michael Bennett for a while. At 5:30 am, Buck was the celebration in 5568-a vote of carrying out of 1.54 million votes cast statewide. But by 6:30 am, the vote had been inclined to Bennet, with about 87 percent of the votes in the state account. Bennet had 774,410 votes to 767,470 Buck at 6:50 am

In the District 11 state Senate races in Colorado Springs, the current Democratic state Sen. John Morse held a 252-vote lead out of 26,600 votes cast. Lead, while close, it seems to Morse above the margin of victory would lead to an automatic recount, with 100 percent of precincts reporting.

Ban county medical marijuana business, however, appears headed for a recount. In that contest, residents rely on the prohibition of this morning, but only by a narrow margin. Ban opponents held a lead of 331 votes of 181 600 votes counted.