{"id":16905,"date":"2011-06-11T13:26:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T20:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/more-than-500-candidates-file-for-policial-office-king-county-elections\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T20:50:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T03:50:29","slug":"more-than-500-candidates-file-for-policial-office-king-county-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/more-than-500-candidates-file-for-policial-office-king-county-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 500 candidates file for policial office | King County Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The candidate filing week ended with 503 candidates filing for office. At the close of filing, candidates had filed for 304 of the 311 offices up for election this year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The majority of candidates, 465, chose to file online. A lot draw was conducted to determine the order candidates will appear on the ballot. The list of candidates and their ballot order is posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingcounty.gov\/elections.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">King County Elections website.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u201cElections in odd years include local positions that affect the daily lives of voters,\u201d Elections Director Sherril Huff said. \u201cEvery voter in King County will receive a ballot in the mail this year, so it\u2019s a good time for voters to update their registration and visit our website to stay up to date and informed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The deadline for candidates to withdraw is Thursday, June 16 at 4:30 p.m. An updated list of candidates will be posted to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingcounty.gov\/elections.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">website after the withdrawal deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Important upcoming dates and deadlines:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Monday, July 18 &#8211; Deadline to register to vote online or by mail, or to update a registration<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, July 27 &#8211; Primary election ballots mailed to all King County voter<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday, August 16 &#8211; Election Day deadline to return primary ballots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The candidate filing week ended with 503 candidates filing for office. At the close of filing, candidates had filed for 304 of the 311 offices up for election this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16905"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}