Ballots and voters’ pamphlets for the Nov. 4 general election are in the mail.
The Snohomish County auditors’ office in Everett sent ballots by first-class mail Thursday to about 410,000 registered voters around the county. Some people will get ballots Friday or Saturday. County Elections Manager Garth Fell said Thursday that he expects all voters in the county to get their ballots by Tuesday, Oct. 21.
The secretary of state’s office in Olympia sent combined state and local voters’ pamphlets this week to all residential addresses in the county. Fell said Tuesday that Snohomish County elections officials had sent local elections material to be included in the state voters’ pamphlet because having a single pamphlet saves money in even-numbered years when most items on the ballot cross county lines.
King County is sending a separate local voters’ pamphlet because it has more local contests than Snohomish County has.
Voters can leave their ballots at 24-hour drop boxes that already are accepting ballots in front of the Lynnwood City Hall, near the Edmonds Library and nine other sites around the county. The drop boxes are open until 8 p.m. election Day. Mailed ballots must have a postmark of Nov. 4 or earlier.
Evan Smith can be reached at schsmith@frontier.com.
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