Election 2010: For last-minute voters, drive-up dropbox, late mailbox

Let’s say you get home from work tonight and realize you still haven’t voted but don’t want to take the chance it won’t get postmarked in time. The King County Elections drive-up dropbox alongside Boeing Field isn’t all that far. We hadn’t been there before, so we drove over a little while ago in order to be able to semi-coherently explain what/where to look for, in case you want to take your ballot there too. It’s at 9010 East Marginal Way, on the Boeing Field side of the street, a couple blocks north of the Museum of Flight. From south West Seattle, we took the Highland Park Way route to the 1st Avenue South bridge northbound, from which you take the Michigan exit and then an immediate right on East Marginal:


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The dropbox is on the airfield (east) side of the Elections building, and signs will point you to the lot on the building’s north side that you must drive through to get there:

As you can see in the top photo, the dropbox itself is a mailbox-style “snorkel” setup- you can drive right up and put your ballot envelope in the slot. (No stamp needed if you do this, though you’ve probably burned gas worth more than the first-class stamp would’ve cost you.) Speaking of the U.S. Postal Service: The Riverton Heights branch in SeaTac is still open till almost midnight, so if you just absolutely can’t get to a dropbox (here’s the full countywide list) before 8 pm, you can try going to Riverton Heights – map and address here – by 11:45 pm – if your ballot really does get postmarked November 2nd, it’ll still count. But the first and only vote count for election night (with subsequent ones each afternoon thereafter) is scheduled for 8:15. Once the numbers are up, we’ll publish the results; you add the reaction!

1 Reply to "Election 2010: For last-minute voters, drive-up dropbox, late mailbox"

  • kg November 2, 2010 (4:09 pm)

    THANK YOU for posting this! I realized with horror as I stepped on the bus this morning that I left my (completed) ballot on the kitchen counter, and have been trying to figure out what to do since. Looks like the babe and I will be heading out for an evening drive!

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