Voting underway on local issues

Staff members in the county elections office had received approximately 2,050 ballots for the Nov. 5 election as of Monday. They had about 1,600 processed as of Friday and another 450 arrived in the mail Monday.

The return is just more than eight percent of the 25,220 ballots which were mailed out for the general election Oct. 18.

Under state election changes, voters who have moved or new voters can register up until the election ends Tuesday.

A sample ballot of all the measures up for a decision covers a full two broadsheets of paper. Other than the state measures, none of the other ballot ve...