voter turnout

The number of people showing up at county election offices on Election Day to register to vote or update registration information has been on the rise after changes to state law.

Participation for Washingtonians 18-24 dropped 8.5 points from the 2020 election, but improved compared to 2016.

While many young climate voters are rallying around Harris, her backpedaling on a fracking ban and support of President Biden’s oil and gas policies leave some disenchanted.

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.

Rep. Jim Walsh, a state lawmaker from Aberdeen, was elected chair of the Washington State Republican Party during a meeting of party leaders in Olympia Saturday. The group also issued an early endorsement for Joe Kent's 2024 congressional campaign.

Numerous Democrats in the Washington Legislature are backing a new proposal to make voting in elections compulsory. Citizens are required by law to cast ballots in about 25 counties, but in no other U.S. states. Republicans in Olympia described the idea as "un-American."

The youngest two generations of voters finally outstripped the number of older voters in 2016 — a sign of how politicians will have to grapple with winning over a fast-changing electorate.

Voter turnout in Washington state could be a 36-year low. Not since 1978 has such a small percentage of registered voters participated in a Washington…

Election 2014 is less than a month away. Ballots will soon be arriving in mailboxes in Washington and Oregon where the election is all vote-by-mail. Idaho…

With one week until Election Day, voters in Washington’s three largest counties have been slow to return their ballots. But officials also say it’s too…