More primary ballots are arriving to the Spokane County Elections Office. Since Wednesday, another 4,400 ballots have been checked in, but that’s only 8.61% of registered voters in the county.

Be careful where you drop your ballot off though. Many libraries have drop boxes installed on their premises, but many miss those devices and instead drop them in the book return. It takes two library staff members to escort the ballot back out to the drop box - kind of like the buddy system to confirm the validity of the ballot.

Spokane Public Libraries says it’s sometimes happens at their downtown location during the election season, but the Shadle Library sees this happen about twice a week.

And be careful not to drop your checked out library items into the ballot boxes. Spokane Public Libraries warns on Facebook that the elections office may not return your items as quickly as you’d like.

Here’s today’s election statistics for Spokane County. Voters in the 4th Legislative District and the Spokane Valley Fire District continue to lead with ballot returns. You have until August 7.

How many times have you tweeted something, noticed a typo, and went back to delete it? Or maybe you thought the tweet wasn’t worded quite as you liked. Maybe you tweeted from the wrong account. Most everyone has had that problem, including politicians.

You might have clicked delete, but the tweets remain. The Sunlight Foundation, a non-profit utilizing online technology to share government information, devised a website, Politwoops, to track tweets from politicians that were soon deleted.

We went through and searched for local Spokane-based politicians in their search engine to see who was included in the database, but it appears only Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers is included. The database did not include any regional state senate, represenative, mayoral or city council individuals. 

It's a big election year with many seats, local and national, up for grabs. Election announcements are spilling out like Seattle rain, never ending - we're looking at you 3rd Legislative District!

The official candidate filing begins next week on Monday at 9 a.m. Candidates who are serious about running will lay down the cash ranging from $421-1,740 for a chance on November's ballot.

Potential candidates have until Friday at 4 p.m. to lay their claim to this year's political spectrum.

Seats available for re-election this year range from the President of the United States to State Rep. in District 3,4,6,7 and 9 and even congressional.

When a candidate files, they can either do it in-person or online. Going in-person has a sense of fanfare to it so after filing time closes, we'll get a list of who went down there in person.