The City of Coos Bay has one City Council position in which no one has filed for the November 4, 2014 election. As such, the City has received questions from citizens on the write-in process for the open position. First, to qualify, a citizen of the City of Coos Bay must be a registered voter and have resided within the city limits for at least one year preceding the election. An interested citizen should contact the public, friends, and media to let the public know of your interest in the open position and provide the correct spelling of your name to write-in on the ballot. The County Elections Office will count the write-in votes once all the ballots have been counted through the tally machine. Because this is a manual process, completed by an Election Board made up of four people, the final results for this contest will not be immediately available. The Election office has 20 days in which to certify the election results to the City.
