Ballots continue to be returned to election offices in the Gorge at a good pace.  Hood River County reports a 48.3 percent return rate, while Wasco County is at 44.9 percent.  Local election officials remind people who have not voted by now to take their ballots to official drop boxes to ensure they are in hand by the Tuesday’s 8 p.m. deadline.  Hood River County voters can go to the County Administration Building at 601 State Street in Hood River or Cascade Locks City Hall, while Wasco County ballots can be taken to the County Courthouse at 511 Washington in The Dalles or to Maupin City Hall.  Throughout Oregon over one million ballots have been returned entering Friday, 200,000 more than at the same time in 2012.  In Washington, 41 percent of ballots have been returned in Skamania County, just over 33 percent in Klickitat County, and over one-point-five million statewide.  Washington law requires ballots to be postmarked by the end of Tuesday.