King County Sees Surge In Early Voting: 2020 General Election
RENTON, WA — King County Elections is celebrating a record start to early voting, led by a surge in ballots returned over the weekend.
Ballots were mailed to 1.4 million registered voters on Wednesday. By the end of Sunday, elections workers collected nearly 90,000 ballots from King County drop boxes, a spokesperson for King County Elections told Patch Monday. That number is almost nine times higher than the 5-day total logged at the beginning of the 2016 presidential election.
Teams of two visit each dropbox location at least once per day, collecting up to 5,000 ballots for transport to the elections headquarters in Renton for counting. As the Seattle Times reports, activity over the weekend was so high that some locations had to be emptied more than once.
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