RIVERSIDE – (INT) - Approximately 61,000 vote-by-mail ballots are being mailed to voters for the Special District Mail Ballot Election on August 25.

Ballots should arrive in mailboxes by the end of the week. In order to be counted in the election, voted ballots must be received at the Registrar of Voters office by 8 p.m. on August 25, or be postmarked on or before Election Day and received no later than three days after Election Day.

The August 25 election includes the Rancho California Water District, Idyllwild Water District, Pine Cove Water District, High Valleys Water District and is not a countywide election.

As an all mail ballot election, there will be no established polling places.

Vote-by-mail ballots can be returned through the postal service or deposited in vote-by-mail drop-off boxes.

Story Date: July 29, 2015