King County voters will have more places to drop off their ballots without a stamp.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Metropolitan King County Council on Monday approved a plan to increase ballot drop-off boxes throughout the county, including a site to be determined on Kent\u2019s East Hill and at Highline College in Des Moines. The county will keep a drop box at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in downtown Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Nineteen new drop box locations will be available for the August Primary Election, with 14 new drop box locations in place for the November General Election.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cVoters want more drop boxes, and King County is delivering,\u201d said Council Vice Chair Rod Dembowski, the co-sponsor of the motion, in a county media release. \u201cOur goal is to increase convenience and lower barriers to voting. This new plan is a big step forward in improving access.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The estimated cost of the project is $239,695, according to county documents.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
With the transition to all-mail voting, the council has been reviewing options to increase access to voters who were unable to mail their ballots and were not near the limited number of ballot drop-off locations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cProviding secure and accessible elections is a fundamental responsibility of county government and I am glad there will be more ballot drop boxes all over South King County,\u201d said Budget Chair Dave Upthegrove. \u201cI worked hard to make sure that these drop boxes will best serve our diverse communities and look forward to seeing them installed during the coming months.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The council adopted a motion requesting the Director of Elections to present a plan looking at opportunities to increase the number of drop boxes available to voters in all nine council districts. Elections compiled a list of more than 100 sites to consider as drop box locations including public libraries, current ballot drop-off locations, suggestions from local jurisdictions, community partners, the voting public, the King County Council and the King County Executive\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The adopted plan will have Elections install 33 drop boxes at new drop box sites and seven drop boxes to replace those at existing drop box sites and extend the useful life of three drop boxes at current drop box locations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The plan includes drop boxes at 24 public libraries and three in geographically isolated communities on Vashon Island, Southeast King County and East King County.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Ballot drop-off sites:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Lake City Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Lake Forest Park City Hall<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Shoreline Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Bothell Regional Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n New Holly Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Skyway Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Rainier Community Center (TBD)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Beacon Hill Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n University of Washington<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Redmond City Hall<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Woodinville Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Issaquah City Hall<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Sammamish City Hall<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Snoqualmie Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Ballard Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Broadview Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Green Lake Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Election\u00a0 Headquarters (Renton)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Valley View Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n RJC-Kent<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Highline College (TBD)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Kent East Hill (TBD)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Crossroads Shopping Center<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Kirkland City Hall<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Kingsgate Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Bellevue Regional Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Federal Way City Hall<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Auburn Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Algona-Pacific\u00a0 Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Muckleshoot Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n White Center Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Burien Library\/City Hall<\/p>\n<\/p>\n High Point Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n KC Administration Building<\/p>\n<\/p>\n International District (TBD)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n South Park Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Vashon Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Capitol Hill (TBD)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Fairwood Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Renton Highlands (TBD)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Enumclaw Library<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Tahoma School Dist. Bldg.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Covington Library<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" King County voters will have more places to drop off their ballots without a stamp.<\/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-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585"}],"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=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}