Douglas and Chelan Auditors Share Important Presidential Primary Vote Reminders

Chelan County auditor, Skip Moore, and Douglas County auditor, Thad Duvall, want folks in both counties to remember the presidential primary ballot requires voters to select a political party. Voters are required to make a party declaration on the return envelope.

"In this process, what gets lost, is this is a nominating process for the individual parties," said Moore. "Both parties want to make sure that anyone participating in this process is only doing it for one party or the other."

It is crucial for voters to double check that the vote inside the ballot matches the party selection on the envelope.

"When we receive those envelopes back, we're going to stack them into Democrat and Republican, two different stacks," said Duval. "So if we have a Republican ballot in the Democrat stack we can't count it."

The auditors won't be able to reach out to voters that didn't vote correspondingly with the party selection due to the auditors opening the envelopes once sorted as a mass.