Candidates for local offices may file by mail starting Monday.
The official filing week is May 11-15, but the two-week period for early filing by mail is available for prospective candidates who won’t be able to get to the county auditor’s office or to a computer with internet access during filing week, Snohomish County Elections Manager Garth Fell said Thursday.
Fell said that filing by mail has some disadvantages, particularly the loss of the candidates’ ability to control information that comes with filing online.
Filing forms are available on the county elections web site.
Elections officials return any mailed filing material that arrives before Monday.
During filing week, candidates can file online or in person at the auditor’s office in Everett. In-office filers get instructions on using an in-house computer.
All candidates must pay their filing fees by the end of the filing week. The filing fee is 1 percent of a position’s annual salary. Unpaid positions, like those on school boards, fire commissions, utility district boards and the county charter review commission, have no filing fee.
The county determines ballot positions for the August primary by a lot draw after filing week.
Evan Smith can be reached at schsmith@frontier.com.
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