CACHE COUNTY – With the general election looming on Tuesday, nearly 50 percent of Cache County’s registered voters have already cast their ballots.
Slightly more than 34,000 of the county’s 72,000 registered voters have already cast their mail-in ballots that have been received and tabulated by the County Clerk’s Office.
As a candidate for re-election, County Clerk Bryson Behm has recused himself from the any contact with those ballots, but his staff has been working to prepare for the general election since mid-October.
That’s when logic and accuracy tests of election equipment were required to be submitted to the Office of Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson in Salt Lake City.
Early in-person voting in Cache County ceased on Friday, Nov. 1. The remaining 38,000 registered voters here can still cast their ballots via the U.S. Postal Service – although those must be postmarked by Nov. 4 – and at drop boxes located through the county until 8 p.m. on Election Day.
The location of those dropboxes can be found by going online to https://www.cachecounty.gov/elections/ballotdropofflocations.html
The Cache County polls for in-person voting on Election Day will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., only at the Cache County Event Center at the fairgrounds at 490 South, 500 West in Logan.
The results of balloting in local races will begin to be announced after 8 p.m. on Election Day.
Voter registration totals for Cache County reflect the area’s strong conservatism, with nearly 42,000 registered Republicans compare to about 7,000 Democrats. Nearly 20,000 local voters consider themselves unaffiliated and another 2,000 are members of the Independent American Party.
The remaining about 1,500 voters have declared themselves to be affiliated with the Constitution, Green, Libertarian, United Utah, Utah Forward or other parties.