Voters in three Lynnwood-area precincts didn’t get their ballots for today’s primary election until today.
Two of the affected precincts are in Lynnwood, the other in nearby unincorporated Alderwood Manor.
In response, officials set up a special ballot-collections center at a retirement community in the affected area, a retirement community where many voters who didn’t get ballots on time live.
County Elections Manager Garth Fell said this morning that county officials discovered the error Monday when they noticed a low rate of return for the affected precincts and they started getting phone calls from voters in the area about ballots that didn’t come.
Elections officials sent ballots to voters in the area with priority designation.
Voters whose ballots don’t arrive today can get a ballot by e-mail, which they can mark and leave at the retirement community or the Lynnwood Library, or they can vote in person at the accessible voting site at the Lynnwood Library, 19200 44th Ave. W.
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