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Candidate filing week
Time to sign up to run on the 2018 ballot

Time to sign up to run on the 2018 ballot

Although fervent politicking began weeks ago in races across the state, the official start of election season arrives Monday, with the beginning of Candidate Filing Week 2018. From May 14-18, candidates for federal, state, and local offices from county commissioner to U.S. Senator must register with county elections offices or the Office of Secretary of State to get their names onto ballots for this year’s elections cycle. The 596 races on this year’s Washington ballots include legislative races in every…

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Hate moving? Imagine King County Elections’ headache

Hate moving? Imagine King County Elections’ headache

Just as Washington’s largest county elections department was settling in to a state-of-the-art headquarters building, they’ve had to move, at least temporarily, to avoid possible flood waters from the Howard Hanson Dam. The department, which tends to the needs of over 1.1 million registered voters, has just opened its new temporary home on the grounds of Boeing Field, on East Marginal Way not far from the Museum of Flight. Elections Director Sherril Huff says the move from Renton to Tukwila has…

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