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Absentee Balloting Under Way

Kootenai County Clerk Cliff Hayes announced that absentee voting by mail for the Nov. 6 general election is under way.   “We began mailing out absentee ballots last Friday,” said Hayes, “and we’ll mail out ballots daily for the next several weeks”.   The county is paying return postage on absentee ballots received. Tuesday, Oct. 9 is the start of in-person absentee voting.  The Elections office, 1808 N. Third St. in Coeur d’Alene, is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.  “We’re also going to be open on two Saturdays, Oct. 20 & Oct. 27, between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.,” said Hayes.  “We want to make absentee voting as convenient as possible for the voters"/Kootenai County clerk's news release.

You can see the sample ballots for the three county legislative districts below:

Question: Do you plan to vote absentee this year?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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