{"id":44490,"date":"2020-02-19T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/king-county-elections-mails-presidential-primary-ballots\/"},"modified":"2020-02-19T15:45:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T23:45:15","slug":"king-county-elections-mails-presidential-primary-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/king-county-elections-mails-presidential-primary-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"King County Elections mails Presidential Primary ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>King County Elections mailed ballots Wednesday, Feb. 19, to more than 1.35 million registered voters for the <a href=\"https:\/\/info.kingcounty.gov\/kcelections\/Vote\/contests\/candidates.aspx?eid=19\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 10 Presidential <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/info.kingcounty.gov\/kcelections\/Vote\/contests\/candidates.aspx?eid=19\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Primary<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Any voter who has not received their ballot by Monday, Feb. 24 should call King County Elections at 206-296-VOTE (8683).<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of State mailed voters&rsquo; pamphlets last week.<\/p>\n<p>This Presidential Primary will mark the first time in the last four years that voters need to declare a party preference to participate. While Washington voters do not register by party, voters across the state will have to pick a party, check the box, and vote for one candidate from the party they selected.<\/p>\n<p>This party preference will remain on the voter rolls for 60 days before being expunged and is publicly disclosable information, per state law.<\/p>\n<p>King County Elections is projecting 40% turnout for the Presidential Primary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ballot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>President of the United States<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Democratic candidates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael Bennet<\/p>\n<p>Joseph R. Biden<\/p>\n<p>Michael Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>Cory Booker<\/p>\n<p>Pete Buttigieg<\/p>\n<p>John Delaney<\/p>\n<p>Tulsi Gabbard<\/p>\n<p>Amy Klobuchar<\/p>\n<p>Deval Patrick<\/p>\n<p>Bernie Sanders<\/p>\n<p>Tom Steyer<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Warren<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Yang<\/p>\n<p>Uncommitted Delegates<\/p>\n<p><strong>Republican candidate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: Your ballot will have an option to vote for Uncommitted Delegates. The uncommitted option was requested by the Democratic Party. It was not requested by the Republican Party. You may vote for one candidate or the Uncommitted Delegates option, but not both.<\/p>\n<p>A vote for one candidate listed on the ballot directs party delegates to support that candidate at their national convention.<\/p>\n<p>A vote for Uncommitted Delegates allows uncommitted party delegates who represent Washington to decide during their national convention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters must vote by March 10 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":44491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-44490","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\/44490"}],"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=44490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44490"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=44490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}