Candidates on the Tuesday ballot took their last steps on the campaign trail this weekend in Central Oregon, hoping to urge voters to get return their ballots before it’s too late.

As of Monday afternoon, roughly 48.3% of Deschutes County voters had already submitted their ballots for the November election, according to unofficial returns recorded by the Oregon Secretary of State Elections Division.

But the fight for candidates to earn voter support won’t be over until polls close at 8 p.m. on Election Day.

Democratic Party candidates joined together Saturday morning for a final mobilization effort to reach voters who had not yet returned their ballot.

“It’s important to be counted,” said Janelle Bynum, U.S. Rep. for Oregon’s Fifth Congressional District, as she canvassed the streets of Bend.…