Election Day: Aug. 4, 2020
Key Dates
Military/overseas ballots mailed: June 19
Deadline to register:
Ballots mailed: July 17
Election Day: Aug. 4. Ballots must be postmarked or dropped in a ballot drop box by 8 p.m. Aug. 4.
Preliminary results: 8:30 p.m. Aug. 4
Election certification: Aug. 18
Clark County Elections Department
April 13, 2020, 12:30pm Election
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders endorsed his former rival Joe Biden for president on Monday in a joint online appearance. Read story
April 8, 2020, 8:59am Election
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders, who saw his once strong lead in the Democratic primary evaporate as the party’s establishment lined swiftly up behind rival Joe Biden, ended his presidential bid on Wednesday, an acknowledgment that the former vice president is too far ahead for him to have any reasonable hope of catching up. Read story
April 3, 2020, 4:23pm Clark County News
Sen. Annette Cleveland, the Democrat from Vancouver, is again running to represent Washington’s 49th Legislative District in Olympia. Read story
March 31, 2020, 4:32pm Election
OLYMPIA — As the coronavirus pandemic knocks primary election after primary election off schedule, Democrats argue the outbreak shows the country needs to move toward one of their longtime goals — widespread voting by mail — to protect the November election. Read story
March 26, 2020, 6:03am Clark County News
Clark County Fire District 6’s Board of Fire Commissioners unanimously passed a resolution asking voters to consider a fire levy lid lift as part of the Aug. 4 primary election. Read story
March 20, 2020, 11:07am Clark County News
Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey said this morning that today’s Canvassing Board meeting will be postponed by two hours. The board will now meet at 5 p.m. at the auditor’s office, 1408 Franklin St. The board is expected to review and certify the results of the presidential primary election today. Read story
March 18, 2020, 4:48pm Election
OLYMPIA — Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman has asked Gov. Jay Inslee to use his emergency authority to cancel the April 28 special elections in response to the coronavirus. Read story
March 18, 2020, 9:51am Election
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden swept to victory in Florida, Illinois and Arizona on Tuesday, increasingly pulling away with a Democratic presidential primary upended by the coronavirus and building pressure on Bernie Sanders to abandon his campaign. Read story
March 16, 2020, 8:03pm Election
OLYMPIA — Former Vice President Joe Biden won the statewide vote in Washington’s vote-by-mail Democratic presidential primary, maintaining the narrow lead he’s held over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders since last week as additional results were counted Monday. Read story
March 12, 2020, 9:40am Election
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Thursday called for a sweeping national response to the coronavirus outbreak, chiding President Donald Trump for a response he said was woefully insufficient and warning that the widening public health crisis should not be viewed through a lens of politics. Read story
