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WA election tally 1.9 million … and rising

WA election tally 1.9 million … and rising

Heading into Friday afternoon-evening updates, the 39 county election offices had processed 1.9 million ballots, or better than 52 percent of the state’s 3.6 million registered voters.  Counties estimated that they had over 600,000 ballots on hand to tally, and an undetermined number still in transit.  Final turnout could top 70 percent. Washington requires only that a ballot be postmarked on Election Day, and it can take days to get from the destination to the home county, particularly for those…

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Top 2 system produces some all-in-the-family races

Top 2 system produces some all-in-the-family races

Washington’s voter-approved Top 2 Primary says the two voter favorites for each office move forward to the November General Election, without regard to party preference of the candidates. As in the two previous years we used the new system, this week’s winnowing of the field produced mostly traditional R-D matchups for November.  Neither the U.S. Senate nor the nine U.S. House races will have two people with the same party preference, and most of the 123 legislative contests likewise. But…

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Media reports: Rossi hopping into Senate race

Media reports: Rossi hopping into Senate race

Dino Rossi, a marquee name for Washington Republicans ever since his oh-so-close loss for governor in 2004, plans to jump into the U.S. Senate race on Wednesday, according to media reports. His entry into the race against three-term Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, one of the Senate’s most powerful senior members, comes unusually late for a challenger.  Filing Week is now less than two weeks away, and ballots for the Top 2 Primary go in the mail July 30. Rossi’s decision…

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