2008 Your Polling Place
posted by on November 4 at 9:16 AM
Slog tipper Jezbian has made an awesome Google map of all 392 polling places in King County. You can also find your personal polling place at the King County Elections web site, or at the Secretary of State’s office. (The KC link appears to be down right now, but you can enter your address on the sample ballot link to the right side of the main elections page.
She also wants us to let you know that writing in a candidate is a big ol’ waste of your and King County election workers’ time. On the other hand, it can be satisfying, especially in races where you aren’t thrilled with either candidate…
Joni Mitchell - is that Nelson's ballot?
Writing in a candidate may not change the outcome, but a protest vote is a legitimate form of political expression. Sometimes I write in on races where the incumbent is running unopposed; voting for the only candidate on the ballot feels too much like a Soviet-style one-party "election."
Your protest write-in only counts as a vote if the person you've written in has registered as a candidate. Unless that's the case it's not a vote at all. It's just scribbling on a ballot.
I voted Dan Savage and Your Mom for some judicial races, please don't tell me it was in vain. I always write in names for candidates running unopposed.
Stephanie Pure beats Chopp or Verde any day of the week.
anyone going in to vote today? what are the lines like at meany middle school?
anyone going in to vote today? what are the lines like at meany middle school?
ROJO!
Also, why exactly does King County have to wait until 8 PM to start counting absentee ballots? I ain't Eastwood but this shit is unforgivable.
[W]hy exactly does King County have to wait until 8 PM to start counting absentee ballots?
I presume because they have to allow for the fact that the absentee voter might also have shown up at the polls in person, and thus invalidated their absentee ballot.
Why is writing in a candidate (registered or not) a waste of election workers' time? They only have to read them if the write-in wins.
it's just stupid that no one runs against Chopp.
Not as stupid as it would be to run against him.
I always vote for Mrs. Fnarf (by her proper name) against McDermott and for Lieutenant Gubner.
Oh, man! I voted for Rob Johnson for Lt. Gov. Next time we need to organize the Rob Johnson campaign in advance so we all vote for him for the same office.
Hey Bill,
I voted for you for something else (maybe 37th District Rep. against Sharon Tomiko-Santos?) but it didn't show up on this part of the ballot.
ECB
@9 - they do not wait to COUNT...they wait to RELEASE information. the tabulation of absentees started when the polls OPENED today at 7:00 a.m.
btw you can follow twitter updates from pollworkers around the county at:
http://twitter.com/kcvotes
and see some pictures taken by pollworkers/other election workers at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kingcountyelections/
Technically, King County could start counting absentee ballots at 12:01 this morning.
They really need to do so.
oh, and the Seattle Times and Facebook have online Look Up Your Polling Place sections on their main pages.
i dunno about anyone else, but when i put my information into the seattle times lookup feature, it didn't give me a polling place/location, it only showed me what would be on my ballot...
and whether or not KCE could technically start counting...well that's paying overtime to temps who are already being paid a very nice wage...and what with the $90 million deficit...i'm sure there'd be lots of people shouting about that.