After an “Election Day” that spanned nearly three weeks, the process of tallying the final vote will take still more time. As of this morning, ballots of 28.5 percent of the state’s 3.58 million registered voters have been counted. That’s over a million ballots. Tons more are being processed as we speak, and many more are still “in the mail,” since state law only requires that ballots be postmarked by Nov. 3. How many people will have voted by the…
OK, it’s like asking you eat your vegetables (and not just that Halloween candy!), but From Our Corner adds this Election Eve plea – please vote. As of Monday morning, the returns were described as light in King, Snohomish, Clark, Yakima, Spokane, Pierce and other populous counties, and moderate-to-wimpy in other locales. It literally couldn’t get much easier to vote. Except for a relative handful of polling places in Pierce County, we’re all voting by mail. Your ballot literally came…
With the November 3 General Election just days away, Secretary of State Sam Reed is reminding voters to mail in or drop off their ballots by Election Day. As Secretary Reed has noted, each election features races and issues that affect all of us, so he encourages all registered voters to exercise their right and have their voices heard. Mail-in ballots have to be postmarked on or before Election Day. Secretary Reed suggests if you are mailing your ballot to…
Our Elections Division has posted the Online Voters’ Guide, a one-stop resource for what’s on the November ballot, on its Web site here . This guide includes information about the two ballot measures – Initiative 1033 and Referendum 71 – that will be placed before voters statewide this fall. It also has info about the three House races in Eastern Washington, as well as two judicial contests in the Puget Sound area. In addition to being in English, the information in the Voters’ Guide may be…
If you haven’t yet registered to vote in Washington, keep this in mind: Monday, October 5 is the last day you can register online or via snail mail if you want to vote in the statewide General Election on November 3. That deadline also applies if you’ve moved to another county or changed your name and want to update your voter registration info accordingly. Monday, October 26 is the last day to register in person (go to your county elections…
Our Elections Division this week put the final touches on this fall’s statewide Voters’ Pamphlet and sent it to the printer. (More than 3 million copies will be printed and mailed throughout Washington in October.) Of the 56 pages that make up this year’s edition, 37 are devoted to Referendum 71. The photo below shows how the pages look when you stretch them out on a football field. (No, Olympia and Capital high schools aren’t going to use this to replace their yard…
Washington Families Standing Together announced Wednesday night that the group won’t appeal Tuesday’s ruling on Referendum 71 by Thurston County Superior Court Judge Thomas McPhee. (See The AP’s story.) That clears the way for a statewide vote on R-71 this November. Now that R-71 is going on the General Election ballot after a close and lengthy signature check and three lawsuits, it’s important that you understand the choices that will appear on the ballot. (There has been some confusion out there…