King County—in the Seattle metro area—strongly encourages voting by
mail aka “absentee ballot”. I have been
to a voting both a couple times in my life in college when there was a booth at
the apartment complex where I lived in Santa Barbara. Other than that, it has been all vote-by-mail. VBM is a fantastic way to vote by leaving a
paper trail that can be audited and recounted along with no lines and open 24/7
for weeks in advance.
This year there were a couple of measures asking how voters felt for
already implemented taxes such as a tax on oil trains amounting to $17M. The choices were to keep or repeal said
taxes. I wanted a 3rd choice
to increase taxes. Not an option.
In light of the voter suppression going on elsewhere in the country, King
County is a bastion of voting opportunity in many ways.
I am grateful for the opportunity to vote in a easy user friendly manor
that does not require me to get special ID or have to wait in line for hours at
a distant hard-to-get-to location.
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