As of this morning, 8,564 Linn County voters, or 14.3 percent, had turned in their ballots.

Linn County sent out 59,728 ballots, and elections supervisor John Ramirez said the office had not yet counted the number of ballots returned as undeliverable.

In Benton County, 3,887 voters had turned in their ballots as of this morning, which is 8.4 percent.

Benton sent out 46,994 ballots and received 2,058 back as undeliverable.

If a voter accidentally mails in a ballot after Sunday with an outdated 41 cent stamp, “We will pay that extra one cent,” said Jill Van Buren, Benton elections supervisor.

Van Buren added that she hopes voters use the correct postage, as paying the difference is not a very efficient use of public funds.

Linn County Elections Supervisor John Ramirez said in the past a staff person has gone to the post office to pick up ballots with incorrect postage so that they may be counted.

It is the postal service’s policy to attempt to deliver mail with any postage and charge the addressee the difference. However, the addressee has the right to refuse, in which case the mail is returned to the sender.

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