Election returns top 18 percent

Ballots due back Tuesday

Return on primary ballots has topped 18 percent of eligible ballots, with the Whitman County elections officials reporting 1,716 had been received as of Tuesday.

The total includes 1,477 from voters in precincts in port district three which has four candidates on the ballot, and 423 from the Colfax city precincts which includes votes for the mayoral candidates and the port district.

Total mailout of ballots July 29 was 9,445. Some of the ballots are from the Garfield and Farmington precincts which have levy propositions on the ballot.

Mailed ballots must be postmarked...