The Clallam County Auditor’s Office has tallied 3,443 ballots since its last count on Thursday in the Aug. 19 primary election, and will count more today.
The additional votes that have been counted changed no outcomes.
About 23,400 of the 44,119 ballots mailed in the all-mail primary election have been returned.
The voter turnout is about 53 percent.
About 5,000 ballots have yet to be tallied.
The approval margin for a property tax levy lid lift for Olympic Medical Center now is 8,894 yes votes — or about 54 percent — with 7,642 no votes, or about 46 percent.
The levy will raise the lid on the hospital operations levy from 11 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value to 44 cents.
The increase will mean a jump from $2.29 a month for the owner of an average-value, $250,000 home to $9.17.
The change will take place January 2009.
