{"id":5097,"date":"2017-11-06T09:37:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=5097"},"modified":"2017-11-06T09:40:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:40:54","slug":"general-election-ballots-due-tuesday-november-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/general-election-ballots-due-tuesday-november-7th\/","title":{"rendered":"General Election Ballots due Tuesday, November 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in Yakima City Council Districts 2, 4 and 6 have until tomorrow, Tuesday, November 7<sup>th<\/sup>, to turn in their ballots for the November 7<sup>th<\/sup> general election.\u00a0 Ballots returned via the U.S. mail must be postmarked no later than 11:59 pm November 7<sup>th<\/sup> to be counted.<\/p>\n<p>There are multiple options for casting ballots in person besides the U.S. mail. The free drop-off locations accepting ballots through 8 p.m. on November 7<sup>th<\/sup> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A ballot drop box at the Yakima County Courthouse on East Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Courthouse\u2019s Security Station, 128 North Second Street, offers a drop box from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm today, Monday, and 7:00 am to 8:00 pm tomorrow.<\/li>\n<li>The Yakima County Auditor\u2019s Office, 128 North Second Street, Room 117, offers a drop box from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm today, Monday, and 7:00 am to 8:00 pm on election day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>City Council candidates listed on the general election ballot include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>District 2 \u2013 Jason White and Pablo Gonzalez<\/li>\n<li>District 4 \u2013 Keith Effler and Kay Funk<\/li>\n<li>District 6 \u2013 Micaela Razo and Brad Hill<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other items on the general election ballot include three statewide advisory issues and a Yakima County advisory item related to the production, processing and retail sales of marijuana in unincorporated areas of the county.<\/p>\n<p>The first results of the November 7<sup>th<\/sup> general election will be posted on Yakima County&#8217;s website &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakimacounty.us\/\">http:\/\/www.yakimacounty.us\/<\/a>. The City of Yakima will issue updates on the results of the City Council races on its website &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/\">https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>General election results will be certified November 28<sup>th<\/sup> by the Yakima County Auditor\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Ballots-Due-November-7th-News-Release-1.pdf\">Ballots Due November 7th &#8211; News Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in Yakima City Council Districts 2, 4 and 6 have until tomorrow, Tuesday, November 7th, to turn in their ballots for the November 7th general election.\u00a0 Ballots returned via the U.S. mail must be postmarked no later than 11:59 pm November 7th to be counted. There are multiple options for casting ballots in person<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[115,146,114,23,8],"class_list":["post-5097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ballots","tag-courthouse","tag-general-election","tag-yakima","tag-yakima-city-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5102,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions\/5102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}