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Here’s How to Cast Your Primary Election Ballot in Redmond

Mail-in ballots must be postmarked Tuesday or dropped off at a drop-off location by 8 p.m.

If you haven’t yet mailed in your primary ballot, you still have time. It’s a packed one, with races for statewide, congressional, legislative, judicial and local offices, as well as some spending measures, depending on where you live.

Washington votes all by mail, and ballots must be postmarked by Tuesday, Aug. 7, in order to be counted. Be sure to use first-class postage.

You can also drop off your ballot without a stamp at one of 15 drop-off locations in King County (including one at ), or visit an accessible voting center if you need help with your ballot.

Be sure to mail or drop off your ballot by 8 p.m. Tuesday, and click on the links above for information about hours.

If you lost or damaged your ballot, you can mark, review and print it out here before mailing it.

As of Friday, 170,460 voters, or 15.33 percent of King County’s 1.11 million registered voters, had returned their ballots. The Secretary of State’s Office expects about 46 percent turnout statewide for this primary.

Questions about what’s on the ballot? Check out the King County voters’ pamphlet here.

Two other resources that might be helpful include a custom sample ballot voters can prepare through the League of Women Voters website here and this website to help voters assess judicial candidates.

Patch will have election results here Tuesday night when the first batch of ballots is counted shortly after 8 p.m. And if you’ve got a smartphone, the Secretary of State’s Office has free elections results apps for watching the returns for federal, state, legislative and judicial races.

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