Top 20 Ballot Drop Boxes In King County: Seattle Still No. 1

SEATTLE, WA - Sometimes, finding a stamp can be tough, either because it's too much trouble to go buy one or because a book of stamps just isn't in the budget (and many other reasons). That's why we have ballot drop boxes.

King County recently released a list of the top 20 most-used drop boxes in the county. As usual, Seattle's Ballard Branch Library came out on top. But Redmond City Hall moved up two spots compared to 2016 to become the No. 2 most-used drop box (comparing 2016 to 2017 is not accurate, however, because turnout was much lower in 2017 - 42 percent compared to 82 percent in 2016).

See if your local drop box made the top 20:

2017

1. Ballard Branch Library: 18,695
2. Redmond City Hall: 13,647
3. Crossroads Shopping Center: 11,816
4. King County Administration Building: 11,776
5. King County Elections: 10,739
6. Burien Town Square Park: 10,463
7. Federal Way City Hall: 9,925
8. High Point Library: 8,991
9. Lake City Library: 8,849
10. Seattle Central College, Broadway-Edison Building: 8,562
11. University of Washington Campus, Schmitz Hall: 8,129
12. Sammamish City Hall: 7,800
13. Bellevue Regional Library: 7,690
14. Shoreline Library: 7,642
15. Green Lake Community Center: 7,441
16. Broadview Library: 7,292
17. Issaquah City Hall: 6,803
18. Woodinville Library: 6,740
19. Kirkland City Hall: 6,324
20. Regional Justice Center: 6,229

2016

1. Ballard Branch Library: 39,282
2. King County Elections Building: 31,896
3. Crossroads Shopping Center: 24,332
4. Redmond City Hall: 23,317
5. King County Administration Building: 22,602
6. Federal Way City Hall: 22,289
7. Burien City Hall: 19,630
8. University of Washington Campus – Schmitz Hall: 18,985
9. Bellevue Regional Library: 18,559
10. Issaquah City Hall: 17,631
11. Shoreline Library: 16,949
12. Seattle Central College – Broadway-Edison Building: 16,396
13. Lake City Library: 15,435
14. Lake Forest Park City Hall: 14,619
15. High Point Library: 14,614
16. Regional Justice Center: 14,373
17. Green Lake Community Center: 13,691
18. Covington Library: 13,539
19. Sammamish City Hall: 13,371
20. Fairwood Library: 12,535

Caption: One man drops a ballot in a voting box as another waits as voters cast ballots to start choosing a new mayor, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, in Seattle. Voters were choosing from a field of 21 mayoral candidates and the top two vote-getters will advance to a November election.

Photo by Elaine Thompson/Associated Press