Colorado voters from across the political spectrum are happy with the state’s voting system and give local officials high marks for the way they administer elections, according to statewide exit polling released Thursday by a bipartisan public opinion research consortium.

The Colorado Polling Institute survey found that roughly two-thirds of the state’s voters think the outcome of this month’s presidential election will have a significant influence on their lives, with identical shares of Donald Trump’s and Kamala Harris’ supporters expressing that belief.

Immigration, abortion and housing topped the list of pressing issues voters said Colorado is facing, the pollsters said.

The poll came within just over a percentage point of predicting Colorado’s presidential vote — Harris carried the state in Tuesday’s election by about 11.5 points in unofficial results, at the same time Trump won the national popular vote and the Electoral College — and found significant gender and age gaps in the state’s residential vote, with women and younger voters preferring Harris over Trump by wide margins, and older voters supporting the Republican candidate. 

The poll was conducted jointly by Democratic polling firm Aspect Strategic and Republican firm New Bridge Strategy. The pollsters surveyed 822 general election voters from Oct. 25-Nov. 4 using live calls to cell phones and landlines and online questionnaires, with a margin of error of plus-or-minus 3.42%.

The pollsters said Colorado voters are “overwhelmingly” satisfied with the state’s mail-ballot election system, which allows voters to return completed ballots by mail or at drop boxes, or to vote in person at voter service centers. Overall, 87% of voters said they approve of the system, with 72% of Republicans and 99% of Democrats giving a thumbs up. Additionally, 70% of Trump voters said they were satisfied with the state’s system, as did 99% of Harris voters.

Asked to grade local election officials on how well their elections are run, 72% of voters assigned an A or B, while just 12% gave officials a D or F.

“Perhaps the most noteworthy thing about Colorado is how satisfied we are with our elections,” said Kevin Ingham, principal of Aspect Strategic, the Democratic polling firm. “Voters of all stripes like the way we conduct our elections, enjoy voting on ballot measures, and believe our election administrators are doing a good job.”

Sentiment was nearly as strong in favor of the ability to vote on ballot measures, the pollsters found, with 85% of voters saying they like doing so.

“Despite many pundits bemoaning the length of the ballot, Colorado voters are not shying away from directly deciding policy in our state,” said pollster Lori Weigel of New Bridge Strategy, the Republican firm. She noted that the approval percentage was essentially the same as pollsters found in March, when the group last surveyed state voters.

Faced with 14 statewide ballot questions — seven constitutional amendments and seven statutory propositions — voters said they felt informed, with 40% saying they considered themselves very well informed and 52% saying they had enough information on some questions but needed more on others. Just 8% said they didn’t have enough information about the questions on their ballots.

Voters told pollsters they considered a range of topics to be the top issue facing Colorado, with 12% saying their paramount concern was immigration, including illegal immigration and the immigrant crisis. Close on that topic’s heels were abortion and women’s reproductive health, tied with housing affordability and the state’s lack of adequate housing, each named by 10% of voters.

Cost of living concerns topped the lists for 8% of respondents, while taxes, economy and jobs, crime and public safety, and homelessness each got mentions from 7% of voters.

The pollsters said the issue ranking resembled voters’ answers in their previous survey, conducted nine months earlier, except that abortion leapfrogged from the bottom of the list into the top tier over that period.

The poll found a wide gender gap, with Harris and Trump effectively tied among Colorado men, at 49% and 48%, respectively, but with Harris leading 61% to 36% among women. Additionally, Trump won voters over 65 by 5%, while Harris won voters under 45 by 30%.

The two gaps collided, however, in results that showed Harris with much higher support from younger women than from younger men. Women under age 45 preferred Harris over Trump by a nearly 50-point margin, 73% to 24%, while men under age 45 preferred Harris by a slimmer, 14-point margin, 55% to 41%.

Different from the March survey, large majorities of voters in both presidential candidates’ camps said they cast their vote to support their preferred candidate rather than to oppose the candidate they disliked.

In the poll released this week, 63% of Harris voters said their vote was for her, while 36% said their vote was more against Trump. Among Trump’s voters, 76% said they cast their ballot to support Trump and 24% said it was more about opposing Harris.

Nine months earlier, when President Joe Biden was seeking a second term, 63% of Biden supporters said they were mostly voting against Trump, and 55% of Trump supporters said their vote was to support Trump.