Selfie of the author wearing a bike helmet about to put a ballot into a drop box with gas works park in the background.

Which ballot dropbox is the most bike-friendly? + It’s not too late to register or get a replacement ballot – Seattle Bike Blog

I dropped my poll right here Saturday night and obtained a textual content Monday morning saying it has been counted. That is how voting ought to work in each state. Monitor your poll’s standing and join alerts by way of the King County Elections web site.

I biked my poll to the drop field close to Fuel Works Park the opposite day, which obtained me questioning: Is that this essentially the most bike-friendly poll drop field in Seattle? It’s throughout the road from the Burke-Gilman Path, in order that’s obtained to be arduous to beat. I threw collectively this map overlaying poll drop field areas on the Seattle bike services map, and there are a number of bike-friendly drop bins round city. This near election day, it’s best to take your poll to a drop field quite than use the mail simply in case it doesn’t get postmarked by election day or get misplaced en route.

Map of Seattle with bike facilities and drop box locations marked.
Use the King County Elections web site for an interactive map of all county drop field areas and addresses. Different county drop field maps: Kitsap, Pierce, Snohomish.

Talking of voting, in case you are already registered in King County however misplaced yours or by no means obtained it since you forgot to alter your deal with, there may be nonetheless time to print out a alternative poll on-line. When you have not but registered, you missed the deadline to take action on-line. However you’ll be able to nonetheless register in particular person as much as and together with election day by going to the King County Elections Workplace in Renton (919 SW Grady Means, Suite 100, Renton, WA 98057). Election data for different close by counties: Kitsap, Pierce, Snohomish.

Each Lime and Chook are providing a pair of free rides via election day to encourage folks to vote. Use code VOTE2024 within the Lime app or code RockTheVote2024 within the Chook app.

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There are nonetheless volunteer alternatives to assist move Seattle’s Proposition 1, the Seattle Transportation Levy. The No on I-2117 marketing campaign can be internet hosting an enormous get out the vote telephone banking day tomorrow. You possibly can be part of from wherever. The polls have seemed respectable, however we additionally don’t know how correct they’re this 12 months. It looks like polls get shakier and shakier every election cycle as fewer folks reply unknown numbers. We’ve to imagine these two measures which are important to biking and strolling security in our area will come right down to the wire and that we’ll want each final vote we will get.

By 8 p.m. Tuesday, no house ought to include each a bicycle and a poll. Let’s win this factor.