ELECTION 2025: Planning to mail your ballot? Hurry!

Now that we’re less than a week away from Election Day – when voting ends and vote-counting begins – here’s an important reminder if you’re planning to use USPS mail for your ballot: According to King County Elections‘ announcement earlier this month, USPS advised mailing ballots at least a week in advance to be extra-sure they’re postmarked by Election Day. Otherwise, you have six KC Elections drop boxes in the area, all open until exactly 8 pm Tuesday, November 4: The Junction, High Point Library, South Seattle College, Morgan Junction, White Center (now on SW 102nd outside Steve Cox Memorial Park), and South Park. (See the map/list for exact locations.) Here’s our story listing the decisions you’ll be making when voting; among them, the Seattle Mayor’s race – here’s our coverage (with video) of the one forum held in West Seattle during the general-election campaign.

pelicans October 29, 2025 (1:18 pm)

WSB, is there an advised method, USPS vs. Dropbox, that KC Elections recommends whether we mail early or later? Current gov’t climate is against mail-in ballots, as I understand it, and may challenge them.

WSB October 29, 2025 (2:14 pm)

I don’t know about “advised” but dropboxes – or voting at KC Elections or another “vote center” that they stand up – are the only way to near-guarantee your ballot is going directly to KCE. And be sure you sign your ballot envelope, and don’t get fancy or sloppy (they really do compare the signatures, I’ve been through a challenge).
Lynda B October 29, 2025 (2:24 pm)

I did the dropbox and also have text alerts. I received alerts that my ballot was picked up and one that confirmed my signature.If you do use USPS, make sure it gets in before Election Day to ensure it gets postmarked by Election Day. I heard that on the radio.

Jay October 29, 2025 (2:06 pm)

For the sake of our kids, please vote for the future and not the past. And please vote! I can guarantee that everyone who feels nostalgic for redlining is turning in their ballot. We need younger people to be engaged as they are, at least when it comes to voting.

anonyme October 29, 2025 (5:08 pm)

This kind of ageist stereotyping is as unacceptable as it is widespread. Everyone should vote, but the suggestion that older people support redlining is ignorant and narrow-minded.
- Foop October 29, 2025 (6:52 pm)
  
  It’s statistically true. But also younger folks really need to get out and vote more
  - anonyme October 30, 2025 (2:30 pm)
    
    Which statistics are you referring to? Redlining was outlawed in 1968, long before you were born, I’m guessing. Nor can I find any online evidence that today’s older generations support redlining. The statement is ageist, period. It also insinuates that those of a certain age are racist; again, unfounded and divisive. You do realize that folks who are now in their seventies were anti-war, pro civil-rights, back to nature freaks at that time, right? We grew up and grew old and so will you. I really do wish younger people would get out and vote as it is the only way we will ever see movement on climate change. But the fact is that we need balance in both government and society, and that involves both the pragmatism and experience of the old, the idealism and energy of the young – and views from all sides.
Not a boomer October 29, 2025 (7:09 pm)

Thanks for the great advice. I voted for Bruce, not the privileged white woman who’s being supported by her parents, and doesn’t care about jobs and our quality of life.
- K October 29, 2025 (8:01 pm)
  
  Bruce is worth $15 million, Katie’s parents helped with childcare during her campaign (gasp). But the bar is always higher for women. You do you, buddy.
Derek October 29, 2025 (11:01 pm)

I don’t see Jay’s post as ageist, no need to weaponize identity there, they are posting facts. I agree and will get my ballot in this week!
- Frog October 30, 2025 (3:02 pm)
  
  Jay has no idea what red-lining even is. It was a risk management policy pushed on savings and loans in the mid-20th century regarding where they should write mortgages. 2/3 of Seattle voters have never heard the phrase “saving and loan” because they haven’t existed in more than 30 years. Residential mortgages are now all securitized, and risk management is no longer the concern of bank regulators. Newt Gingrich with his “ownership society” actually flipped the script 30 years ago and began promoting mortgage lending in poor neighborhoods as a means to improve them. Ironically, many neighborhoods that would have been red-lined in the ’50s are now hot spots of gentrification and would be considered good risk, if anyone cared about that , though no one does (see NINJA loans, great financial crisis). Very few Seattle voters of any age have any idea what red-lining was, or care at all about risk management in the mortgage market.
  - K October 30, 2025 (6:02 pm)
    
    Redlining was a risk management policy like slavery was an economic policy. You can try to sterilize the history all you want, but redlining was about racism.
    - Frog October 30, 2025 (7:54 pm)
      
      Redlining represented above all a prediction that inner cities would decay and suburbs would prosper. 85% of residents of Type D (red line) neighborhoods in the original 1935 map were white. To reduce it simply to race, while typical of the progressive left, misses key elements of the history. Redlining is of course highly controversial in retrospect, with many complaints that it was self-fulfilling and promoted urban decay, suburban sprawl, car culture, and every other bad thing. Also, to say that anyone in Seattle is nostalgic for it is totally silly — central city neighborhoods are fashionable and expensive here, and you would have no problem getting a mortgage there. and no one would care.
- Actualperson October 30, 2025 (3:55 pm)
  
  Your agreement with Jay’s post is telling. Making things up to fit your agenda is lame. We see right through it.