Filing closed March 4 for county offices.

Multiple county positions are on the 2026 ballot, including a commission seat, sheriff, county attorney, clerk and recorder and treasurer.

The primary is scheduled for June 2 and the general election is Nov. 3.

County candidate filing closes March 4, some races uncontested so far

As of 5 p.m. March 4, the following have filed with the county elections office:

County Commission, District 2: Tom Lynch, Rick Wolke, Pete Anderson, Barbara Bessette

Clerk and Recorder: Lynn DeRoche, Rina Moore, Desarea Valentine

Sherriff: Jesse Slaughter (incumbent), Melinda Kahle

County Attorney: Josh Racki (incumbent)

Treasurer: Diane Heikkila (incumbent)

Justice of the Peace, District 1: Brian Bebbington, Robert Polich

Justice of the Peace, District 2: Stephen Fagenstrom (incumbent), Cayle Halberg

Public Administrator: Gerald Boland (incumbent)

Commissioner Jim Larson, the incumbent for District 2, has decided not to seek re-election.

He told The Electric that “I’ve enjoyed my time here,” but 12 years has been enough and ready to retire.

Filing opens for county elections

The following positions are up for election on the 2026 ballot, with their filing fees, which are a percentage of the salary for their position:

• clerk and recorder, filing fee is $405.98
• commissioner, District 2, filing fee is $400.82
• county attorney, filing fee is $744.36
• two justice of the peace seats, filing fee is $400.82
• public administrator, filing fee is $10
• sheriff, filing fee is $546.09
• treasurer, filing fee is $415.98

The write-in deadline for the school board election is March 2 and no candidates filed.

Three incumbent school board members — Bill Bronson, Kim Skornogoski and Amie Thompson — filed for reelection.

Terry Thompson, county election administrator, sent a letter to the district on March 3, giving the 30-day notice that the GFPS board election was canceled under state law.

The county elections office is also partnering with the U.S. Postal Service to complete the required National Voter Registration Act process to cleanup voter rolls by identifying voters who have submitted an address change with the post office but not updated their voter registration.

Ballots cannot be forwarded by law.

The NVRA process has two steps designed to assist voters in updating their information and maintaining the accuracy of the voter rolls.

On Jan. 1, the county elections office mailed the first confirmation notice with a 30-day deadline to confirm or update their address.

The second confirmation notice was mailed Feb. 2 to those who didn’t respond by the deadline.

If the voter fails to return the first and/or second noticed by the deadline, their voter status will be inactivated.

Voters can update their information or cancel their registration without returning the NVRA notice by submitting a voter registration application or a voter cancelation request to the county elections office.

Fillable forms are available on the voter registration forms section of the county elections website.