Voting was steady on Tuesday —election day for the City and Borough of Juneau.<\/p>\n
But with thousands of votes cast by mail, preliminary results won’t be available until the end of the week at the earliest, said City Clerk Beth McEwen in an interview.<\/p>\n
“I anticipate unofficial results on Friday,” McEwen said.<\/p>\n
Much of Juneau had already submitted their ballots by mail by last weekend, McEwen said.<\/p>\n
[Today is election day. Here’s how to vote if you haven’t yet cast a ballot]<\/ins><\/p>\n “As of Saturday (Oct. 2), we were processing about 4,800 ballots,” McEwen said. “We have about eight people doing pieces of it.”<\/p>\n At City Hall, McEwen said, voting was proceeding smoothly, with a decent lunch crowd.<\/p>\n “It’s been pretty steady,” McEwen said.”I think election day, we’re always going to have that uptick.”<\/p>\n Elsewhere in Juneau, in-person voting had been a little cooler, with “small and slight” start at the Mendenhall Valley Public Library, though officials present noted things on Monday had heated up in the afternoon.<\/p>\n “It builds through the day,” said election official Jack Chenoweth in an interview. “First week was very slow. Second week, it picked up. Yesterday was gangbusters.”<\/p>\n Chenoweth said about three -quarters of voters who came into the center were dropping off ballots, about one-fifth of people coming in reported not receiving a ballot or needing a new ballot, and the remainder of voters had questioned ballots or were at the vote center for another inquiry.<\/p>\n James Jenkins was among the dozen or so people to cast ballots at the library before 9 a.m.<\/p>\n “I always try to vote,” Jenkins said in an interview. “I think it’s one of our duties as Americans to vote.”<\/p>\n • Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at 757-621-1197 or mlockett@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nearly 5,000 ballots had already been mailed in by last weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":76225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[329],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-76224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76224"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=76224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}