POULSBO — Kitsap County voters have their work cut out for them.

By 8 p.m. Aug. 2, they must choose who advances to the Nov. 8 general election for U.S. senator, 6th District U.S. representative, governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, state auditor, commissioner of public lands, superintendent of public instruction, insurance commissioner, 23rd District state representative, state Supreme Court justice, and Kitsap County Board of County Commissioners, and Public Utility District commissioner.

Ballots must be postmarked no later than Aug. 2.

Mobile Voting Units will be open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Aug. 2 at the Elections Division and at the Poulsbo Fire Station, 911 NE Liberty Road, Poulsbo.

You can drop your ballot off until 8 p.m. on Election Day at one of the following locations:

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND: Bainbridge Island School District, 8489 Madison Ave. NE.

BREMERTON: Kitsap Regional Library, 1301 Sylvan Way; Norm Dicks Government Center, 345 Sixth St.

KINGSTON: North Kitsap Fire & Rescue, 26642 Miller Bay Road NE.

PORT ORCHARD: Kitsap County Auditor Elections Division, 619 Division St.; South Kitsap Fire and Rescue Station 8, 1974 Fircrest Drive SE; South Kitsap Fire and Rescue Station 17, 7990 McCormick Woods Drive SW.

POULSBO: Poulsbo Fire Station, 911 NE Liberty Road.

SILVERDALE: Central Kitsap School District, 9210 Silverdale Way NW.

There are 159,236 registered voters in Kitsap County, according to the county Auditor/Elections website. As of end of day Aug. 1, the county had received 31,840 ballots, or 20 percent.

A Pew Research Center survey conducted June 7 to July 5 found that about six in 10 Americans, or 59 percent, were feeling election fatigue.

Kitsap County Elections Supervisor Kyle Joyce said busy schedules, summer vacations and number of candidates also play a part in lower-than-desired voter turnout.

“We aren’t that far off from 2012,” he said of the last election in which residents voted for U.S. Senate and governor. “The same day, Monday before the election, we had 21.6 percent [ballots returned],” he said.

“Typically, we get over 50 percent of our ballots election week … 20 percent [election eve] looks low — we want it to be as high as it can, we’d like to see it on an upward trend — but we’re not that far off from 2012.”

In the 2012 primary election, the ballot return in Kitsap County was 41.5 percent.  “Chances are we won’t get there this year,” he said.

Kitsap County will post election results by 8:15 p.m. election night at www.kitsapgov.com/aud/elections. Visit this website for comprehensive election night coverage.

Election official Charles Friend seals the Kitsap County ballot drop box Aug. 2 in front of the Poulsbo Fire Station on Liberty Road and 10th Avenue. (Richard Walker / Herald)