Primary 2024 ballots are out

May 3, 2024

PORT ORCHARD – Voters throughout Kitsap County will begin receiving Primary ballots as early as today, and there is a new drop box at Bremerton National Airport.

Ballots were mailed on Tuesday. Voters throughout the entire county will have a chance to elect candidates for federal, state and county offices, as well as a commissioner position in the Kitsap County Public Utility District. Additionally, four fire districts and a park district placed funding measures on the ballot.

The presidential race is not on this ballot. The Primary for that race was in March and the presidential candidates will be on the ballot in the November General Election.

The county will have 27 drop boxes open for the election. The Local Voters' Pamphlet was mailed last week and is available online at kcowa.us/lvp. A single sheet listing all the drop boxes is also available at https://www.kitsap.gov/auditor/Documents/Drop%20Boxes.pdf.

The Bremerton National Airport drop box is at 8850 SW Highway 3 in Bremerton.

The drop box formerly located in the Olympic College parking lot was removed after the college opted to close the lot after hours for security reasons.

Kitsap County Elections recommends using ballot drop boxes to return ballots, but voters can also do so by mail without postage. Voters returning their ballots by mail should do so by July 30th, a week ahead of the election.

Online and mail registrations and address changes must be received by July 29th. Residents needing to register to vote can do so in person at the Kitsap County Auditor's Office, 619 Division Street in Port Orchard from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. every weekday. Residents can also register to vote at one of three vote centers from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 3 and Monday, August 5th. The vote centers will be open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Election Day, August 6th.

Vote Center locations:

• Kitsap County Administration Building, 619 Division Street, Port Orchard, WA 98366;
• Marvin Williams Recreation Center, 725 Park Avenue, Bremerton, WA 98337;
• Poulsbo Fire Station, 911 Liberty Road, Poulsbo, WA, 98370.