The Cascadia Advocate is written by the staff, board, and contributors of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a regionally focused nonprofit working from Washington, Oregon, & Idaho to constructively transform our world through insightful research and imaginative advocacy.
NPI was founded in August 2003 and is based in Redmond, Washington.
| Excerpt: | NPI's proposal to allow cities and towns to move their regularly scheduled elections to even years if they want is drawing a lot of interest in the wake of the 2023 general election, which saw the worst turnout in state history. |
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| Published at: | 4:30 PM on Monday, December 4th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Voter Turnout |
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| Excerpt: | November 28th, 2023 was the deadline for counties to certify their returns in the November 2023 general election. Statewide turnout will pass into the history books at 36.41% for this year. That's the lowest Washington has seen since recordkeeping began. |
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| Published at: | 6:42 PM on Tuesday, November 28th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Voter Turnout |
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| Excerpt: | Washington State is at real risk of setting a new record for the worst general election turnout in state history. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Thursday, November 9th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Voter Turnout |
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| Excerpt: | Mosqueda is putting on the table a thoughtful proposal to adjust the election timing for Seattle's eleven executive and legislative positions. The proposal takes the form of a charter amendment that would be submitted to voters in November of 2024. |
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| Published at: | 9:03 PM on Wednesday, September 13th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Fair Elections |
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| Excerpt: | King County Elections staff had hoped that countywide turnout would surpass 35%, but it has stalled out at around 30%, and it looks like it will be below what it was in 2021 and 2019. |
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| Published at: | 1:48 PM on Thursday, August 10th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Voter Turnout |
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| Excerpt: | Learn about the voting justice panel that the Northwest Progressive Institute is hosting at Netroots Nation 2023. |
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| Published at: | 8:34 AM on Wednesday, June 28th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Events |
| Other Tags: | Netroots Nation, Voter Turnout |
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| Excerpt: | Bipartisan momentum for even year elections across the United States is growing, judging by an effort underway in Montana by Republican legislators to move city and municipal elections to higher turnout presidential and midterm years. |
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| Published at: | 8:08 PM on Tuesday, March 28th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Even-Year Elections |
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| Excerpt: | It used to be that many cities in Washington had the power to choose when their elections would be held. That's right: they once had the same freedom our bill proposes to give them! Learn about the history of the statute. |
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| Published at: | 12:30 PM on Monday, February 20th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Cities |
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| Excerpt: | A proposed state law developed by NPI and Senator Javier Valdez (D-46th District: Seattle) that would give cities and towns the freedom to switch their elections to even-numbered years passed out of the Senate State Government & Elections Committee on February 17th with a “do pass” recommendation, keeping the bill alive for further consideration. |
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| Published at: | 2:45 PM on Friday, February 17th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Legislative Advocacy |
| Other Tags: | Fair Elections |
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| Excerpt: | Read our recap of the February 10th, 2023 public hearing on Senate Bill 5723, prime sponsored by Senator Javier Valdez at NPI's request and cosponsored by half of the Senate Democratic caucus. |
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| Published at: | 11:21 AM on Friday, February 10th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Legislative Advocacy |
| Other Tags: | Fair Elections |
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| Excerpt: | Imagine being able to as much as double the turnout for important local offices -- and diversify it by an even greater magnitude -- with just one structural change. That's what even-year elections for local governments can do for us. |
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| Published at: | 9:26 AM on Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Fair Elections |
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| Excerpt: | The passage of King County Charter Amendment 1 is part of a nationwide success story in these midterms. There's a growing movement in this country favoring even-year elections that had a clean sweep in 2022, with a total of thirteen even-year election measures identified by Ballotpedia all winning approval. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Monday, November 21st, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Counties |
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| Excerpt: | In this retrospective, NPI's founder and executive director assesses what our 2022 electoral poll findings were able to tell us about state and county-level races on the midterms ballot. |
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| Published at: | 4:30 PM on Friday, November 18th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Research Polling Retrospectives, WA-Counties, WA-Exec, WA-Sen |
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| Excerpt: | Republican Reagan Dunn asks rhetorically if people will pay attention to county races if they're in even years. The answer is yes, they will... because county governance and county-level topics will be part of the mix in years when people are more attuned to politics and when the media's political coverage is more robust. |
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| Published at: | 6:43 PM on Monday, October 10th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Voter Turnout |
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