King County Elections Department--please spread the word

An important message from King County Elections:

King County Elections is making one last attempt to contact voters whose signatures on their absentee ballots either do not match their voter registration or whose ballot was not signed. These automated phone calls use the voters registered phone number and will start today. Contacting a total of almost 4,000 voters, these calls will continue through Monday afternoon, the day before the election is certified.

“During each election, hundreds of absentee voters either overlook the signature and oath or their registered signature does not match the signature on their return envelope," said Jim Buck, interim director of Records, Elections and Licensing Services. "Voters need to make sure to sign the return envelope and to keep their signature and registration information current in order to avoid these calls."

King County Elections compares every absentee ballot signature against the voter’s registered signature on file. If an absentee ballot is returned with a signature issue, election officials immediately attempt to contact the voter both by mail and by phone, as is required by state law. Contact attempts have already been made for a vast majority of these voters

If King County Elections does not receive the required documents from voters with signature issues by Monday, November 27, at 6 p.m., their ballot will not be tabulated.
If there's a problem with your ballot, you should have already received a letter in the mail, and additionally, you may get a phone call that sounds like this. http://www.nwprogressive.org/multimedia/audio/KCEPhoneCall.mp3

To accommodate voters, King County Elections will offer extended office hours at the downtown Seattle office on Monday, November 27 from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. King County Elections is located in the King County Administration Building at 500 Fourth Ave, Room 553 in Seattle. Voters may also call 206-296-VOTE (8683) for more information during those hours. But note that King County Elections will be closed Thursday, November 22 through Sunday, November 26 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Voters may also visit a King County Community Service Center during normal hours of operation to pick up and complete or drop off their affidavit or registration form. For more information on King County’s Community Service Centers, .