February 03, 2009
Final reminder

If you haven't already voted for Elections Director, be sure to vote for David Irons.

Your ballot must be postmarked today. That doesn't mean dropped in a mailbox today, that means postmarked today.

Before you drop your ballot in a mailbox, check to make sure it's still before the posted "Last Pickup Time". If you deposit your ballot after the daily pick-up, your ballot won't be postmarked on time and won't be counted.

The surest way to get your voted counted today is to get your ballot to a post office before closing time and get a hand postmark stamp at the counter, or at least drop it in the mailbox before the last pick-up.

Don't worry if you can't find a stamp. It's longstanding county policy to pay for return postage on unstamped ballots.

UPDATE: there are also Accessible Voting Centers and Ballot Drop Off Locations, which aren't particularly convenient for most people.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at February 03, 2009 11:08 AM | Email This
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1. Thanks for the heads-up on the stamp issue. To refuse a ballot for lack of a stamp would be imposing a poll tax, and King County elections knows this.

Posted by: vtrguy on February 3, 2009 11:32 AM
2. Is there no place you can go to vote in person now? I refuse to vote by mail.

Posted by: Smoley on February 3, 2009 12:22 PM
3. @2 You can still take your ballot and drop it off at your local polling place I believe.

Posted by: Palouse on February 3, 2009 12:28 PM
4. Well, so far so bad.

Neither I nor my significant other got ballots. We got voter pamphlets, but not ballots. Only today do we realise there are no polling places per se.

I checked the elections department web site (no, not the one that comes up from a search, which only mentions election results from earlier elections, the *other one*.... and look at the tracking info. The ballots were "assembled and sent" on 14 January. Sent to whom it doens't say. I imagine they were intercepted. (Shocking, simply shocking).

So I call elections and they say "they've had a lot of ballots returned" as the on;y excuse they could come up with. Right....

So, they have "accessible polling places" only three places in the county:

Downtown bellevue (getting through traffic and high parking)
Renton (!)
and Seattle.

Does this look like a little "english" being applied?

Please don't insult my intelligence like this. If your going to rig the elections, have a *little* class and try not to make it this obvious.

Well, at least we're rid of Ron "Bob Mugabe" Sims.

Posted by: bfr on February 3, 2009 12:40 PM
5. @2 I voted touch screen at king co. elections office due to a non deliverd ballot.

Posted by: DOWN ON THE FARM on February 3, 2009 12:42 PM
6. The "accessible polling place" for east KC :

Bellevue City Hall, 450 110th Ave NE, Room 121, Bellevue, WA 98009

Beneath a disused lavatory behind a locked door with a sign saying "beware of the leopard".

Posted by: bfr on February 3, 2009 12:47 PM
7. If you have a First, Last, and a birthdate you can track a ballot:

http://info.kingcounty.gov/elections/mailballottracking.aspx

Posted by: Robert on February 3, 2009 01:12 PM
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