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More than 1 million primary ballots received in Washington

By AP and The Columbian
Published: May 24, 2016, 10:21am

OLYMPIA — The secretary of state’s office said this morning that 28 percent of voters had already returned ballots for Washington’s presidential primary.

As of Monday evening, election officials said they’d received more than 1.1 million ballots. There are more than 4 million registered voters in Washington.

In order to be tallied, ballots need to be postmarked today or delivered by 8 p.m. to a drop box (locations at www.clarkvotes.org) or to the Clark County Elections office.

Results will be posted both at the Washington secretary of state’s website (www.vote.wa.gov) and the Clark County elections website shortly after 8 p.m. today.

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As of this morning the Clark County elections office reported receiving 86,221 ballots of 259,275 mailed, for a voter turnout of 33.25 percent.

Washington has both a presidential primary and a caucus system, but Democrats will ignore the results of Tuesday’s primary, having chosen to continue to use the party caucus system to allocate their national convention delegates. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders handily won the Democratic caucuses in March.

Republicans in Washington will allocate all 44 delegates to their national convention based on the primary results.

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