Primary return nears 10 percent

As of Monday, 1,147 primary election ballots have been returned to the auditor’s elections office. The office mailed out 11,159 ballots on July 19.

Deadline for returning the ballots will be the primary election date of Aug. 6. Mailed ballots are required to have a postmark of that date or earlier.

The ballot levy proposals carry turnout requirements of 60 percent of the ballots cast in the last general election. The turnout for validation of the Pullman election is 2,428. Turnout requirement for Garfield is 73 and for Farmington it is 22.

The primary includes one three-way contest for a vacat...