{"id":32629,"date":"2018-01-24T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/king-county-elections-mails-feb-13-special-election-ballots\/"},"modified":"2018-01-24T11:26:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T19:26:41","slug":"king-county-elections-mails-feb-13-special-election-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/king-county-elections-mails-feb-13-special-election-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"King County Elections mails Feb. 13 special election ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>King County Elections mailed ballots Wednesday to about 750,000 registered voters for the Feb. 13 special election. The department estimates a 34.4 percent voter turnout rate.<\/p>\n<p>This special election consists of propositions from 18 jurisdictions, including 16 school districts. The Kent School District has two levies on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There are important local issues on the ballot for more than half of King County voters this February,&rdquo; said Julie Wise, director of King County Elections, in a county news release. &ldquo;These issues impact our daily lives, so be sure to vote and make your voice heard.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Ballots can be returned without a stamp to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingcounty.gov\/depts\/elections\/how-to-vote\/ballots\/returning-my-ballot\/ballot-drop-boxes.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"link\">any of the 55 ballot drop boxes<\/a> by 8 p.m. on Election Day. Or voters can return their ballot through the Postal Service with one first class stamp. Ballots returned by mail must be postmarked by Feb. 13.<\/p>\n<p>Voters who don&rsquo;t receive a ballot by Jan. 29 or who have questions should call King County Elections at 206-296-VOTE (8683).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent School District has two levies up for vote <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":32630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-32629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32629"}],"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=32629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32629"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=32629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}