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WA voters pick their Primary favorites

WA voters pick their Primary favorites

Washington voters have narrowed the field for the General Election, including the hotly contested race for Seattle Mayor, three special state Senate races and literally hundreds of important local offices. By Wednesday midday, counties had tallied over 660,000 ballots after carefully verifying the voter signatures. That amounted to 20.5 percent of those who received ballots, a number sure to increase as Tuesday evening’s drop-box ballots and those still in the mail are added in. Washington’s election law allows any ballot…

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WA 2011 primary election is underway!

WA 2011 primary election is underway!

Washington’s 2011 primary is underway, with county election officials mailing ballots to more than three-fourths of the state’s registered voters. It’s the first election since lawmakers officially switched the state to full use of vote-by-mail.  Pierce County, the last holdout for poll-site voting for a dwindling number of their residents, had made the switch to mail balloting. Not every registered voter should expect to receive a ballot. Two counties have no primary at all this year — Franklin and Wahkiakum…

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Lawmakers OK Reed military voting bill, earlier primary

Lawmakers OK Reed military voting bill, earlier primary

Washington lawmakers have voted to move the state’s primary election two weeks earlier and to make it easier for our military and overseas voters to cast ballots electronically.  Secretary of State Sam Reed, who championed the legislation, hailed the Senate’s unanimous vote Thursday that sent the measure to Governor Gregoire for her signature. The measure, Senate Bill 5171, allows service members and Washington voters abroad to return their voted ballots by fax or email, as many states do. Currently, ballots…

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Murray, Rossi advance in WA Senate primary

Murray, Rossi advance in WA Senate primary

Incumbent Sen. Patty Murray and challenger Dino Rossi are advancing to Washington’s November Senate election. As expected, the three-term veteran Murray and Rossi, a former Republican state Senate budget chairman who ran for governor in 2004 and 2008,  easily emerged from a 15-person field in Washington’s primary Tuesday night. Although many votes remain to be tallied in the coming days, Murray had 46 percent and Rossi 34 percent as the election night tabulations were totalled. Clint Didier, who was backed…

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