PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson County auditor counted an additional 85 ballots Friday, and reported that results of the District 3 commissioner’s race and the fire levy ballot question remained the same as reported Tuesday.
The office will count another 14 ballots at 10 a.m. Sept. 1, prior to certification of the primary election.
About 30 ballots were submitted without signatures or with questionable signatures. Voters can clear up ballot questions before Sept. 1, and the votes will be counted.
Auditor Donna Eldridge reported 12,437 votes were cast from 21,704 sent to voters in the all-mail election, representing a 57.3 percent turnout.
The result of neither the District 3 commissioner vote nor the ballot measure to raise property tax in Port Townsend to support fire services changed since the initial count Tuesday night.
Port Ludlow home-builder Jim Boyer, 64, and incumbent John Austin, 69, also of Port Ludlow will face each other on the Nov. 2 general election ballot.
Voters within the city of Port Townsend quashed a proposed property tax increase that would have raised the city levy rate for fire services by 43 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuation, with 1,966 votes, or 54.84 percent, opposed to 1,619 votes, or 43.16 percent, in favor.
Five county incumbents were unopposed, and will now serve until December 2014.
Those are Eldridge, Sheriff Tony Hernandez, Superior Court Clerk Ruth Gordon, Assessor Jack Westerman and Treasurer Judi Morris.
