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What if you totally spaced and forgot to register to vote in time for today's election?

Wyman is asking Gov. Jay Inslee to provide her with emergency spending authority. "We've run the numbers statewide and for the primary and general elections in 2018 it will be about $1.8 million."

And it's too close to call two other measures. In Selah a $48 million bond to build a new school to replace John Campbell Primary School is trailing with 59.99 percent. 60 percent is needed for passage.

OLYMPIA  (AP) — The Senate has passed a measure that would move the state's presidential primary from May to March. The chamber approved Senate Bill 5333 on a 34-15 vote Monday. It now heads to the House for consideration. The bill was requested by Secretary of State Kim Wyman, who had said she wanted the earlier date so that the state could be more relevant in helping choose presidential nominees

PORT ANGELES (AP) — A county auditor northwest of Seattle says her office has discovered 125 ballots from the 2016 presidential election that were not opened. The Peninsula Daily News reported Thursday the ballots were discovered inside a walk-up election ballot drop box at a courthouse in Port Angeles...

I was bummed as I dropped off my ballot this morning at the ballot box in Prosser because I see my Facebook friends in voting booth states sporting their "I voted" stickers. I think it would be great in mail-in ballot states if they included those stickers in our ballot envelope. I did some snooping and here's what I found for Washington state voters who can't find those stickers. Read M

SEATTLE (AP) — Democrat Patty Murray is Washington's senior U.S. senator, and she has mostly coasted to re-election over four terms. Her challenger this November, Republican Chris Vance, hopes his message of fiscal discipline and social moderation will resonate with voters long turned off by the GOP...

NEW YORK (AP) — Neil Young doesn't want his "Rockin' In The Free World" used by Donald Trump's campaign. The song blared as Trump arrived on stage at his presidential campaign kickoff announcement yesterday. Young says the Republican didn't have permission to use the music...

A federal judge has decided that U.S. House candidate Clint Didier's complaint against a campaign volunteer for opponent Dan Newhouse will be heard before the Nov. 4 election. Attorneys on Wednesday argued over a motion Didier's campaign has filed against Chris Voigt, executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission, the commission itself and Newhouse's campaign...

The National Cattlemen's Beef Association announced Tuesday that 45 cattlemen’s associations don’t want USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to issue an order for a supplemental beef checkoff.