A ballot from the March 2024 primary election in Washington state. (Credit: Johanna Bejarano / NWPB) Listen (Runtime 7:53) Read In preparation for the general election this November, Northwest Public […]Read More
The skepticism in how elections work and their accuracy has become a hot topic on social media, at the dinner table and in the news.
Kyle Haugh, Pierce County elections manager, said since 2016, there’s been a spike in interest in how elections are administered. Read More
More eyes are on ballots in the Tri-Cities area this election, according to reports from the Benton County auditor.Read More
Democratic incumbent Steve Hobbs and independent challenger Julie Anderson were leading Washington’s top two primary for Secretary of State after the initial ballot count Tuesday night. Republican Bob Hagglund, who has never held public office, was in a close third place.Read More
Washington legislative Republicans were taking stock Wednesday of their less than dazzling performance in the initial returns of the August primary.Read More
County election officials in Washington are warning that a new statewide voter registration database system is not ready for the state's August 6 primary and could result in some voters getting incorrect ballots or no ballot at all. The concerns reached a crescendo on Tuesday at a work session of the Washington Senate's State Government, Tribal Relations and Elections Committee.Read More
More than $25 million has poured into Washington state's 8th Congressional District race, making it one of the most expensive U.S. House contest in the country.Read More
On the final day of the Washington legislative session last week, lawmakers passed a bill to make it easier to prosecute police for negligent shootings. It was a compromise agreed to by groups on all sides to keep a potentially divisive initiative off the November ballot.Read More
A batch of late-arriving ballots is going out to nearly 7,000 Washington voters in advance of next Tuesday’s special election. That’s because of an error in the state’s Motor Voter system that allows people to register to vote when they get a drivers license.Read More
Joyce Dorsey, whose son Che Taylor was shot by Seattle Police nearly two years ago, speaks in Olympia before the delivery of Initiative 940 petition signatures to the Washington […]Read More
Republican Jinyoung Lee Englund, left, and Democrat Manka Dhingra, right, are vying for the 45th legislative district Senate seat. Dhingra leads in early results. CAMPAIGN PHOTOS Listen Democrats had the […]Read More
A state legislative race in Washington is starting to draw out of state money. For one donor from Idaho that’s because the outcome could determine west coast climate policy. Read More
