Time to Vote and Get Your Ballot to a Drop Box

In Our View: Can USPS deliver? Drop off ballots if possible

Ballots for the 2026 primary election in Washington are due Tuesday, Aug. 4. And as local voters participate in our representative democracy, the process is engulfed in a national discussion regarding vote-by-mail, which is available for all elections in our state.

Time to vote and get your ballot to a drop box

KC Councilmember Rod Dembowski (2nd from left) and the new dropbox at the Northgate LibraryThe official primary election date is this coming Tuesday, August 4, 2026. Your ballots have to be inside a drop box or in the hands of King County elections before 8pm on that date.The elections department told me that every year they find ballot envelopes sitting on top of the drop box after 8pm. They note that the ballot was received but it is not count…