The good people of King County elections would still love for you to cast your vote, and have made it pretty easy, and (lucky you) there is no one in line at the "accessible voting" location inside Union Street Station at 401 S. Jackson Street.

I got there this morning and had the help of a dozen election workers to myself. Walked into the station, found the room (to the right), filled out a brief form, showed my ID, got a magnetized card to plug into a machine, and was led to a touchscreen voting station where it took about three seconds to vote for Mike McGinn, Dow Constantine, no on I-1033, approve Ref-71, etc.—print out The Stranger's full endorsements and take it with you. Then I got to read a printout of my selections to make sure the machine got everything right. Then I pressed a button that said "Cast your ballot." While there, exactly two other people showed up to vote. One of them was another guy who'd lost his ballot. The other was Rusty Williams, who ran for city council this year but didn't make it through the primary, who walked into the polling place saying, "Where is everybody?" We're right here, one of the election workers said back. "No, no, the customers!" Williams said, laughing.

The election workers were so relaxed/friendly/unbusy I asked a tableful who they were voting for. "We're non-partisan," one of them said. She was doing a crossword puzzle. "Within these walls," she added.

Another chimed in, "We just want people to vote."

If your ballot's at home, just go to Union Station to do it. (If you're elsewhere in King County, you can also go to Bellevue City Hall or the elections office in Tukwila—there's a map here.) It's so easy. And it's going to be a close election. And you know how beautiful Union Station is, right?

It's open til 8 pm, though they expect it'll become a madhouse after 5 pm. GO!