Perhaps you read our endorsements yesterday and you’re ready to vote. King County’s elections have gone entirely to vote by mail. Who the hell uses the mail anymore—that is, other than candidates who are stuffing your mailbox with their grinning mugs on glossy card stock mailers?
Luckily, there are a few places the stampless masses can vote in Seattle:
• King County Administration Building, 500 Fourth Ave.
• White Center Library, 11220 16th Ave. SW
These Seattle neighborhood service centers will also take ballots:
• Ballard, 5604 22nd Ave NW
• Delridge, 5405 Delridge Way SW
• Central, 2301 S Jackson St.
• Lake City, 12525 28th Ave. NE
• Southeast, 3815 S Othello St.
• University, 4534 University Way NE
All of these locations have drop boxes accessible 24 hours a day, and you have until 8 p.m. on Aug. 18 to drop off your ballot. The complete county list is posted here.
As mayoral candidate James Donaldson recently learned, White Center is NOT in Seattle.
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After you vote, why not celebrate and come on the Link Light Rail Pub Crawl with everyone else – Thursday starting at 7 pm (it’s on FB)
Vote against the plastic bag fee and spend the savings on postage stamps.
WTF?!?! If an election is going to be ALL mail-in, the envelopes have to be postage paid! Even for elections where voting in person is an option, the envelope should be postage paid if you’ve requested a mail-in ballot.
Seems like this would be a slam dunk, summary judgement kind of constitutional rights challenge. It’s a clear poll tax!
And if the USPS wants to gripe about cost, they can think about their federal charter for a few moments.
@4: The cost would fall on King County, not USPS. And the reason it’s done is that nobody has brought a legal challenge yet.
@5 I was assuming that the government holding the election would just ask the USPS for a freebie. You know it would come down to “who’s gonna pay for it?” crap instead of “what’s the just thing to do?”.
Seriously though, if you can’t scrape together enough change for a stamp OR find one of the drop-off locations (conveniently listed in an insert that comes with the ballot), why should you be allowed to vote? Dipshits need to just accept that some parts of life will be harder for them.
I’m still not a big fan of the prospect of going to a mailbox and sticking my ballot in there *with my name on*, and potentially having some angry delusional USPS worker decide to pitch out all the ballot envelopes that come from Capitol Hill, because all the people there are commieliberal homofags.
That said, I know that the vast majority of USPS workers would never do that because they take their jobs very seriously. Maybe even a little too seriously at times.
I’m not sure what the disparagement of the postal system is all about. I’ve never had any mail get lost in my four decades on earth. It’s a great and extremely affordable service. I use the mail to send tapes and pictures to friends, and they all universally love getting mail. Mail is awesome. All this dumping on the mail is only going to lead to the disappearance of the cheap first class letter and free Saturday delivery. Stop the stupidity, please!
44-cents is in the cracks of your sofa or your Esso’s ass – do you actually think the effort and the energy of pioneering in a Conestoga wagon to one of the free drop-off spots is worth the stupendous effort to vote? Just get a stamp and mail in your ballot. Or would you prefer to wait for someone from the election board to come to your door and ask if they can deliver your ballot personally, after they help you find a pen and explain how to fill in the holes with black ink. JesusHumpfestChrist! Or would you rather be a mule?
@9, from an article in the Times today: “Seattle postal worker charged in theft; $208,307 check deposited”.
#4, I never really considered this a poll tax because a) it’s freaking 44 cents and b) there are many free dropoff locations.