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Election 2023
The latest 2023 Election coverage from KNKX and NPR.
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Threats made against election workers have sharply increased in recent years, and the latest scares in Washington state have officials thinking of ways to prepare for 2024.
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The south part of Tacoma has some of the lowest voter turnout in Washington state. Regardless, organizers for one initiative hit the neighborhood hard this election season.
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As of Friday's vote count, leading candidates in Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Bellingham and Spokane support some form of sending unarmed civilians to respond to mental health crises and other nonviolent incidents.
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While many jurisdictions elsewhere in the country have provided some interpretive services or materials in the two languages, King County could be the first to provide an actual votable ballot in Somali or Russian.
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In an odd-year election like the one coming up on August 1, getting the right endorsement from the right group can make or break a local political campaign.
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Local politicians in Seattle and around King County are opting to term out instead of running for reelection. One elected official who is running talks about why.
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Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, the most senior member of the Council and the city’s only elected socialist, will not seek reelection when her term expires in December. Sawant announced Thursday that she will instead form a new national labor movement.
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