The big day is final­ly upon us! Today is Tues­day, Novem­ber 5th… Elec­tion Day, also known as the last day you can do your civic duty and vote. Tonight we’ll begin to have some idea of who will be gov­ern­ing cities, ports, schools, and coun­ties across Wash­ing­ton State for the next few years (not to men­tion spe­cial districts).

Regard­less of where you live in Wash­ing­ton, there are two statewide ini­tia­tives to vote on, plus five “advi­so­ry votes” that we’re now refer­ring to as Tim Eyman’s push polls. Chances are, you prob­a­bly have a num­ber of local races on your bal­lot too.

If you have already returned your bal­lot, that’s great… thank you for par­tic­i­pat­ing and doing your civic duty! If you haven’t, please plan on tak­ing your bal­lot to the post office or a drop box before tomor­row evening. King Coun­ty Elec­tions has a list of return loca­tions on its web­site. So do these oth­er counties:

If you need help vot­ing on the bal­lot mea­sures, vis­it NPI’s BallotGuide.info. It pro­vides an illus­trat­ed guide to what’s on the front side of your ballot.

We urge you to vote NO on Tim Eyman’s I‑517 and YES on Ini­tia­tive 522, which would require that foods pro­duced with genet­ic engi­neer­ing be labeled.

The dead­line to return bal­lots is eight o’clock tonight across the state. Make sure you get your bal­lot to a drop box before then.

If you’re plan­ning on mail­ing your bal­lot from a Unit­ed States Post Office, be aware that the last out­go­ing mail col­lec­tion times may be soon­er than this!

Tonight, we will have results for all of the hot races on Pacif­ic NW Por­tal in a real­ly cool, easy to nav­i­gate grid lay­out. The results web­sites oper­at­ed by King Coun­ty and the Sec­re­tary of State unfor­tu­nate­ly make you do a lot of click­ing to see results for dif­fer­ent races. We take a dif­fer­ent approach. We put results for all of the hot races on one page, so you can see what’s going on around the state.

We will also have elec­tion night head­lines from Vir­ginia, New York, and oth­er places. (New York is elect­ing a new may­or, while Vir­ginia is choos­ing its next governor).

Our live elec­tions cov­er­age will start around 7:30 PM. Results should be avail­able short­ly after 8 PM. Sim­ply browse to Pacif­ic NW Por­tal around that time, and you’ll find results, analy­sis, and live cov­er­age from our board, staff, and contributors.

We hope you find our cov­er­age use­ful and informative.

About the author

Andrew Villeneuve is the founder and executive director of the Northwest Progressive Institute, as well as the founder of NPI's sibling, the Northwest Progressive Foundation. He has worked to advance progressive causes for over two decades as a strategist, speaker, author, and organizer. Andrew is also a cybersecurity expert, a veteran facilitator, a delegate to the Washington State Democratic Central Committee, and a member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps.

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One reply on “Today is Election Day in Washington; time to vote NO on I‑517 and YES on I‑522”

  1. The Mon­san­to lies and the mil­lions they spent to bam­boo­zle Cal­i­for­ni­ans over Prop. 37 (label­ing GMOs) appar­ent­ly paid off. Cal­i­for­nia did­n’t pass Propo­si­tion 37. I hope the peo­ple in Wash­ing­ton State will not allow them­selves to be bought by the likes of Mon­san­to. Vote yes on I‑522. Don’t be a dumb­bell — send Big Ag a message! 

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