HELENA — With one day to go in Helena and East Helena’s municipal elections, Lewis and Clark County officials say they saw a steady flow of voters coming in to drop off their ballots throughout the day Monday.

As of noon on Monday, election officials had accepted 7,553 ballots, about 35% of the 21,220 that were mailed out. That means overall, just over 30% of the eligible voters in Helena and East Helena have already voted – but that’s likely to rise significantly before the end of the day Tuesday.

(Watch the video for more on the updated turnout figures.) Lest that 1/3 of votes in one day before Lewis and Clark County municipal elections

The number of rejected ballots in the county has remained relatively low , with only 46 still not being counted.

In September, the county report

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