Of the more than 23,000 Weld County voters who were listed as “inactive” before the recent election, only 389 requested ballots and just 108 ultimately cast their ballots, according to the Weld Clerk and Recorder’s Office.

The county mailed ballots to about 99,000 voters, but election officials decided not to send ballots to the 23,668 inactive voters — eligible voters who did not participate in the last election and who did not respond to mailings from the Weld Clerk and Recorder’s Office asking to activate their records.

Inactive voters were still eligible to vote if they requested a ballot from the county by Election Day on Tuesday.

About one-third of those on the list of inactive voters live in Greeley and most are not affiliated with a political party. Weld Clerk and Recorder Steve Moreno said he believed most of the people listed as inactive voters no longer live in Weld County.

Voter mobilization groups had criticized the decision by most Colorado clerk and recorders to withhold election ballots from inactive voters, saying it disenfranchises minority groups and is a disadvantage to Democratic voters. Last month, a Denver district judge rejected an effort by Colorado’s secretary of state to block Denver’s plan to send ballots to inactive voters.

Moreno said voter turnout Tuesday hit 42.4 percent, or 42,864 of 101,085 registered voters.