PORT ANGELES – It’s election day, and just over 31 percent of ballots in Clallam County have been cast.

Elections officials say, through yesterday, just under eighteen thousand of the 57-thousand ballots that were sent out were back for counting.

Voters have until today to get ballots back in an official drop box or postmarked to be valid.

It’s an off-year election which usually garners lower turnout. But unlike previous off-year’s the majority of seats on the Port Angeles City Council are up for grabs in four highly contested races. The same is happening in Sequim for city council there.

There are two hotly contested races for seats on the Olympic Medical Center board of commissioners, and a handful of school board seats are up for election on the Sequim and Port Angeles School boards.