The campaigns are done. Now it’s up to the voters to decide.
That’s the feeling expressed by the six people seeking three major elected offices — Jefferson County commissioner, Port of Port Townsend commissioner and a Port Townsend City Council position — in today’s general election.
Fifty other seats — most of them uncontested — are up for election in precincts across the county today.
Nearly 59 percent of the 11,586 absentee ballots distributed for the election have already been returned to the County Auditor’s Office.
Voters still hanging on to their ballots have until 8 p.m. tonight to deliver them to the Jefferson County Courthouse, 1820 Jefferson St., Port Townsend.
The ballot can be dropped in a mailbox today, as long as there’s time for it to be postmarked with today’s date.
For voters not casting their ballot as absentees, polls will be open until 8 p.m. today.
Polling places are listed on voter registration cards, or are available by calling the Auditor’s Office at 360-385-9119.
In all, 19,268 people are eligible to vote in today’s election, Auditor Donna Eldridge said Monday.
That’s about 450 more than were registered at the beginning of the campaign season in July.
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The rest of the story appears in Tuesday’s Peninsula Daily News Jefferson County edition.