41 percent of Ravalli County's absentee ballots returned

Ravalli County Elections Supervisor Regina Plettenberg said 5.800 of the 14,000 absentee ballots that were sent out have been returned. Plettenberg advises voters to get their absentees in the mail by Thursday, and certainly no later than Friday. All absentee ballots must be in the elections office by 8 p.m. Tuesday.