Deadline nears to request absentee ballots for May 19 primary election

The deadline to request an absentee ballot for the all-mail primary election in Idaho is next Tuesday.
 Voters can request a ballot online at the Idaho Secretary of State’s Idahovotes.gov website or by calling the Washington County clerk’s office and request a form be sent in the mail.
 Some ballot request forms have been placed in locations around the county, including at the post offices in Weiser, Midvale and Cambridge.
 As of Thursday, the Washington County clerk’s office had processed more than 2,500 requests for absentee ballots.