Of 45,336 primary election ballots sent to voters in Clallam County, 10,672 had been received as of Wednesday.
In Jefferson County, 5,877 ballots out of 20,888 sent to voters had been returned.
In both counties, elections are all-mail. There are no neighborhood polling booths.
Ballots must be postmarked no later than this coming Tuesday, Sept. 19, which is Election Day, or deposited in a certified dropbox (see your voter instructions) no later than 8 p.m. Sept. 19.
The first vote count will be done Tuesday night.
A second vote count will be conducted of ballots that arrive in the mail Wednesday and later.
Clallam County
The Clallam County Auditor’s employees are holding six ballots until voters provide identification.
Among the Clallam ballots that could not be logged in, 27 bore signatures that did not match the voters’ names, 29 were unsigned and nine were signed by the wrong person.
Undeliverable ballots — people who moved within the county for whom new ballots must be mailed — totaled 2,589.
Jefferson County
Jefferson County Auditor Donna Eldridge reported that the 5,877 ballots returned so far represented 28.14 percent of the ballots mailed out Aug. 30.
Of the ballots received, 65 are being challenged for signatures or other reasons.
Three returned ballots have been voided.
One was returned with “deceased” written where the signature of the voter should go — and two appeared to be replacement ballots for voters who had already submitted their original ballots, said Eldridge.
She said she will have to find the original ballots to see if the voters did in fact send in two voted ballots, which is a prosecutable offense.
