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Clerk 04/12/2017
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AN ORDINANCE relating to King County district court electoral district boundaries for 2017; amending Ordinance 884, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.12.010, Ordinance 16803, Section 1, as amended, and Ordinance 8935, Section 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.68.075 and adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 1.12.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 884, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.12.010 are hereby amended to read as follows:
A. The voting precincts of King County are hereby established as provided in state law and shall be adopted by ordinance and retained officially on file in the department of elections.
B. An alphanumeric system of identifying voting precincts using a combination of letters and numbers shall be established throughout King County. Those precincts located in unincorporated areas of the county that presently have names shall retain them for public purposes in addition to the alphanumeric designation. Names shall be given only to those new precincts in unincorporated areas of the county that are created from portions of existing named precincts.
C. Precincts shall be divided, new precincts created and boundaries of existing precincts altered, as necessary, to implement precinct balancing and to accommodate the incorporation and annexations of unincorporated county areas into incorporated cities.
D. Voting precincts may contain as many as nine hundred active registered voters for each individual precinct.
E. Proposed revisions to voting precincts, as provided for in this section, shall be submitted to the council for approval by ordinance no later than thirty days before the statutory deadline established in RCW 29A.16.040 of the applicable year. The department of elections shall make available to the public and to the political parties the proposed revisions of voting precincts for a review period of not less than ten days. All public comments received sh...
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