ballot initiatives

A ballot measure focused on giving parents’ greater access to student records is trailing after election night.

Voters are supporting the state’s new “millionaires tax.” The effort to repeal the tax is losing soundly in early results.

The conservative group Let’s Go Washington is pushing to expand access to medical, counseling and other school records. Critics worry this will roll back protections.

Voters will decide on legislative races, congressional races, and five state Supreme Court races, as well as three statewide initiatives.

The Washington state initiative to ban transgender girls from playing on girls’ school sports teams is controversial, but polling suggests it could have enough support to pass.

Voters have until Aug. 4 to put their choices in the mail or in official county drop boxes. Primary ballots this year will include races for Congress and the state Supreme Court.

All four of this year's ballot initiatives are designed to repeal laws that were enacted by the Legislature or bar laws that were passed from taking effect. This is a change from some past years.

A King County judge ordered a partial pause on the measure Friday.

Lawmakers approved the capital gains tax, which took effect after the state Supreme Court upheld it in a ruling last year. But an initiative on this year's ballot could repeal it.

An initiative on the 2024 ballot could repeal the Climate Commitment Act, which established the state’s cap-and-invest program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.