Election officials get 4,210 ballots

With one week remaining until election day, most Whitman County voters had yet to decide on issues in the primary election.

Whitman County’s election department had received 4,210 completed ballots in the all-mail election as of Tuesday. That equates to just over 20 percent of the 20,268 ballots mailed out to registered voters.

In addition to the completed ballots, 2,252 ballots were returned because they could not be delivered. Most of those were from students in Pullman.

Deadline for the primary election is Aug. 18. Ballots postmarked after Aug. 18 will not be counted.