Millburn reached the 300-signature threshold and filed for the general election on June 16, the Davis County Clerk’s office confirmed Tuesday.

Millburn will face the winner of the Republican primary between two-term incumbent Lorene Kamalu and Susan Lee. There is no Democratic candidate.

Millburn served as Davis County commissioner from 2007 to 2018, eventually being replaced on the commission by Bob Stevenson, who is now challenging Trevor Lee for the House District 16 seat.

Millburn did not immediately return a request for comment.

Clarifying Millburn’s affiliation, Davis County Clerk Brian McKenzie said Millburn is not running under a party ticket.

“He may or may not be affiliated with a political party, but as a candidate, he’s running as an unaffiliated candidate,” he said.

Elaborating on the difference between an unaffiliated candidate and an independent candidate, McKenzie said independent in Utah usually refers to the Independent American Party.

“But generally, people say, ‘I’m independent,’ and they’re usually meaning that they’re not a member of a party,” he said. “And so he’s running on a nonparty ticket.”

In her reaction to the news, Kamalu emphasized the positive effect Millburn’s entry will have on voters.

“The really good thing about it is it keeps people engaged to keep learning,” Kamalu said. “A lot of people have learned a lot.”

Kamalu’s challenger in the Republican primary, Susan Lee, expressed confidence in the Republican nominee going forward.

“I still feel very strongly that the Republican on the ballot is going to end up winning,” she said, adding that she couldn’t remember it happening any other way.

She said she welcomed the challenge and said “it makes the process better.”

Election results

Election results will not be available as of the Standard-Examiner’s print deadline Tuesday, but Weber County Clerk/Auditor Ricky Hatch said election results would be available at elections.utah.gov at around 8:30 p.m. and that those results would reflect about 85% of all ballots cast.

“The reason is we clear the dropboxes at 8 and there’s a full process we have to go through verifying the signatures, the last four, making sure the voter hasn’t already voted,” he said. “We have to open the envelope, unfold it, scan it – that takes a bit of time, and I don’t want staff doing that when they’ve already worked 12 hours or 15 hours because that’s when mistakes happen. So we will store those securely overnight and then we will process those on Wednesday morning.”

He anticipated by Thursday, 99% of the ballots will be processed, but he said it might happen as early as Wednesday.

“It just depends on if there are any issues with the equipment or any issues with in-person voting or anything that takes away from processing ballots,” he said.

Hatch said that the election won’t be over until it’s been canvassed two weeks after election day.

He said races have flipped in the two-week period, which involves accounting for provisional voters as well as military and overseas voters.

He said there’s also the cure process. If a signature or the last four don’t match, the voter is notified and has 13 days after election day to correct that.

“So we’re doing all of that after election day and that’s going to impact the votes and the results and if it’s a super close race, you just never know,” he said. “So we always emphasize election night results are unofficial. Regardless of what the news says, they’re unofficial until it’s actually certified and canvassed two weeks later.”

According to a post on the Weber County Elections Facebook page, as of 3:27 p.m. Monday, the countywide average for turnout was an estimated 28.2%.

Unincorporated Weber County led the way at 29.9%, followed by Marriott Slaterville at 28.9% and Ogden Valley City at 28.2%. Other county municipalities were as follows:

Washington Terrace – 27.5%

South Ogden – 27.2%

Farr West – 27.1%

Riverdale – 27.0%

Huntsville – 26.1%

Ogden – 25.7%

Uintah – 25.6%

Pleasant View – 25.1%

Plain City – 25.1%

Harrisville – 24.5%

North Ogden – 24.1%

Hooper – 21.4%

West Haven – 21.2%

Roy – 21.0%

In highlighting the post, Hatch explained a couple of caveats. He said the numbers were not official, exact or necessarily current. He also said that election officials “never know what the actual vote tallies are until the close of polls on election night – they just know the # of votes cast in total.”

Hatch estimated turnout would end up in the upper 30% range but didn’t think it would eclipse 40%.

During Tuesday’s Davis County Commission meeting, McKenzie issued a reminder that voters had until 8 p.m. to turn in their by-mail ballot to any of the dropboxes in the county. He said polling locations were also open for in-person voting.

He said shortly after 8 p.m., preliminary results would be posted to daviscountyelectionsutah.gov and vote.utah.gov, and that results would be updated until about 10 p.m. Tuesday.

Contact Standard-Examiner editor Ryan Comer at rcomer@standard.net.