Columbia County Auditor Anne Higgins said that out of the 1627 ballots mailed, 868 had the potential to not be counted as they were either not returned or returned as undeliverable. Columbia County still had the second highest voter turnout in Washington State at 46.65% on election night, Higgins said.

Higgins said eighty-five of the ballots were returned with a forwarding address and she was able to mail them on. An additional 24 ballots were returned with no forwarding information.

“These 109 voter registrations will be inactive after the certification of the primary election on August 20th...