There’s less than a week to go until the 2021 primary election.

And, according to Elections Director Lisa Rivett, county elections staff are “probably 95 percent ready” for the Tuesday vote.

She told the Board of Elections — in this cycle, the county commissioners — during a brief Wednesday meeting that the most recent round of training has focused on bringing poll workers up to speed on using the digital poll books.

Rivett said she’s offered four classes so far with one more this Saturday where about 20 people will walk through the training, which she said she made mandatory for the county’s poll workers.

She told the board that 1,190 mail-in ballots have been returned so far.

While municipal primaries generally tend to not see big turnout, Rivett said that more people are likely voting this cycle because of the ballot questions that all voters — regardless of party — can vote on.

Three are state constitutional amendment issues — two tied to disaster declaration authority highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic — and a question that, if approved, would expand funding resources for volunteer fire and EMS companies.

Rivett said all of the election equipment will be loaded up Sunday and distributed to polling precincts on Monday.

Those precincts will then be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on election day.