Pierce Council still hearts polling places
Although 99 percent of this year’s voters cast ballots by mail, Pierce County apparently will remain the state’s last holdout for poll-site voting. The County Council has ordered newly elected County Auditor Julie Anderson to continue operating polling places, the News Tribune reports, but has de-funded it, meaning she’ll have to figure out how to cover the $150,000 cost out of her agency budget. About a tenth of this year’s Pierce County voters, or less than 18,000, went to a polling…