Reply #2: I don't think vote-by-mail has been mandated yet [View All]

A while back, Seattle held an "advisory" vote (read: expensive showboat) regarding the Alaska Way Viaduct. That was done strictly vote-by-mail at the insistance of the City Council. King County will be going all vote-by-mail in 2008, starting with the February special elections. I can't speak for other counties, sorry.

If you were previously registered to get a mail-in ballot, you should have gotten one. Otherwise, go to the polling place shown on your most recent voter registration card.

As for the voter registration pamphlets, blame the Postal Service. Rather than put them in our mailboxes (like they are supposed to by law), the mail carrier at my apartment complex dropped a stack inside the front door. I got one only by fishing the stack out of the garbage, where some traitorous resident (or guest) relocated them.

The King County election page is at http://www.metrokc.gov/vote.htm
Information on the primary items (candidates and ballot measures) for King County can be found at http://www.metrokc.gov/elections/