King County district to use one-of-a-kind smartphone voting platform for third straight year

For the third straight year, the King Conservation District (KCD) will be running its annual elections through a smartphone voting platform.

‘The difference is staggering’: King County district forges ahead on smartphone voting

The KCD operates as an environmental agency run by the state, with a board of supervisors voted on by all of King County, excepting residents of Enumclaw, Federal Way, Milton, Pacific, and Skykomish.

Because of an archaic law that requires KCD to hold its board of supervisors election at the start of each year rather than in November, it has long struggled to encourage voter turnout using standard mail-in ballots. In 2019 — the last year KCD

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