PORT ANGELES — Filing for Clallam County elected offices opens today, with at least three candidates expected to seek a single county commissioner’s seat.
Incumbent judges, however, probably will keep their seats unopposed on each of Superior Court’s three benches.
Candidates may file their declarations and pay their filing fees — 1 percent of the salary for the offices they seek — from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at the auditor’s office in the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St.
If more than two candidates vie for the same office, the two top two vote-getters in the primary election that will end Aug. 19 will advance to the election that will end Nov. 4 — regardless of political party and even if one wins more than 50 percent of the vote.
Washington voters approved the top-two primary in 2004, but political parties tied it up in court until March 18.
That’s when the state Supreme Court put it back into effect.
