The Clallam County Auditor’s Office received 685 more election ballots on Wednesday, bringing the total of returned ballots to 12,380, or 27.1 percent, of the 45,724 registered voters who received them for Tuesday general election, said Auditor Patty Rosand.
In Jefferson County, 8,574 ballots have been returned, said Voter Registration Coordinator Betty Johnson, bringing the total to 39.5 percent of the 21,676 ballots mailed to eligible voters.
Ballots must be postmarked by Tuesday or placed in an official drop box by 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Anyone who needs a replacement ballot in Clallam County can go to www.clallam.net/elections and click on the “My Vote” icon, or stop by the auditor’s office on the main floor of the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles.
Drop boxes are located at the Clallam County Courthouse; Sequim Motor Vehicle Licensing Office, 1001 E. Washington St., Suite 5, Sequim; Sequim City Hall, 152 W. Cedar St., Sequim; and the Forks District Court lobby, 502 E. Division St., Forks.
Anyone who did not receive a Jefferson County ballot by Monday should phone the Auditor’s Office at 360-385-9119 or email karenc@co.jefferson.wa.us.
Marked ballots can be returned to the Auditor’s Office in the Jefferson County Courthouse, 1820 Jefferson St., Port Townsend, or dropped into a box in the back parking lot of the courthouse or in the parking lot of the Jefferson County Library, 620 Cedar Ave., Port Hadlock.
Copies of the 2011 North Olympic Peninsula Voter Guide, with separate editions published for Jefferson and Clallam counties, were in the Peninsula Daily News last Friday.
Free copies of the voter guide are available at libraries, county courthouses, city halls, PDN offices in downtown Port Angeles and online at www.peninsuladailynews.com (click on the respective county’s voter guide button at the bottom of the home page).