Don’t Forget to Vote!

Posted by the Kenmore Crow | Filed under Politics

Kenmore's BallotDon’t forget: Tuesday is “Election Day” (a.k.a. – mail your ballot day).

Here in Kenmore three of our seven city council positions are up for election this year. In the primary, only 29.4% of Kenmore’s registered voters bothered to return their ballots. Flip that around: that means that over 70% of voters in Kenmore did not vote in the primary. I have to say, that is pretty pitiful, especially considering how easy it is to vote now that we have been forcibly switched to an all-mail system.

I’m not interested in making “recommendations” that allow you to abdicate your civic responsibility to make your own informed decision, but I will do what I can to help you get to that point for yourself. In order to help you make an informed decision on the two contested races for Kenmore City Council, here is a collection of relevant links.

Don’t forget that there is also a convenient King County ballot drop box located outside the lower entrance to Third Place Books just down the street in Lake Forest Park.

You have no excuse not to vote other than sheer laziness.

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Permalink | November 1st, 2009

2 Responses to “Don’t Forget to Vote!”

  1. Bill Leak Says:
    November 1st, 2009 at 4:26 PM

    “You have no excuse not to vote other than sheer laziness.”

    Amen!

  2. James Lupori Says:
    November 5th, 2009 at 7:50 AM

    KC – Well, unfortunately, they didn’t vote. As of yesterday fewer than 3000 of the 12,700 registered voters voted. If one looks closely at the numbers, 3 City Council members were elected with fewer than 2000 votes each. This means that 1% of the people in Kenmore have elected 3 people whose decisions (such as building an $18 million city hall) are made without asking the residents of Kenmore. And people accuse the “government” of being irresponsible. Well, we get the government we deserve….

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