elections

Races for city council, school board and fire district commissioners are set for the fall elections.  After the filing period for candidates ended May 9th, a few primary races with at least three candidates will appear on the August Primary Election ballot but most of the races will materialize in the November General election. ...

Midway through filing week for public office, few races have materialized as of Wednesday morning, May 7th.  Filing week for any office up for election this year runs through Friday, May 9th at 5pm. There are a lot of filings to scan through so I did a review of who is in so far and any emerging races. ...

Candidate filing week for elected offices starts May 5th.  The August Primary election will feature races for City Council, local school board director and seats on various Commissions. Candidate filing opens at 8am on Monday, May 5th through 5pm on May 9th. The P...

The complaint stems from transfers of re-election money for Ferguson to his new campaign for governor.

Two of the top campaign fundraisers are Chelan County Commissioner candidate Anne Hessburg, who raised $81,164, and current Chelan County Sheriff Brian Burnett, who raised up to $88,507.

Douglas County Elections Office started receiving calls from voters Monday that alerted them some folks had received two ballots in voter packets. After an investigation, it was discovered there was a machine malfunction during the mailing process which caused two ballots in a number of packets...

The State House passed a low carbon fuel standard Wednesday in a contentious debate. 12th Dist. Rep. Keith Goehner says it's the same bill the House passed last year, and that it will hurt small business, agriculture, low-income people and emergency services...

Gov. Jay Inslee and Secretary of State Kim Wyman jointly announced Tuesday they had secured funding for statewide ballot return postage in the 2018 Primary and General Elections. King County last week adopted an ordinance to pay for ballot return postage for its residents. Tha...

From a press release - Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman testified before the King County Council today that all voters in Washington should have the same access to the ballot box, and called on Gov. Inslee to provide her with emergency spending authority to fund prepaid postage for all ballots in every county across the state for the 2018 elections...

With the passage of the federal Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018, Washington will receive an estimated $7.9 million to enhance cybersecurity controls and replace an aging voting infrastructure. States must provide a 5 percent match within two years ...