Washington State and Local Government Washington 2024 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions:Democrats RepublicansWashington State's Top Two Primary The two candidates who receive the most votes in the primary and receive at least 1% of the votes cast qualify for the general election. Each...
Five months after holding its presidential primaries, Washington state is looking further down the ticket to select candidates to compete for federal and state offices in November.
The Secretary of State has historically been a mostly administrative position; the primary duties of the office are to oversee and certify elections, manage the state’s physical and digital archives, and register corporations and nonprofits. In recent years, though—perhaps you’ve noticed—the mun...
Washington state has 44 delegates up for grabs. Trump will therefore cross the threshold and clinch the nomination on June 7, when California and four other states vote on the final day of the Republican primary contest. The real estate mogul's former rival, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, as well ...
Voters in the state of Washington enacted Initiative 872 (I-872), the ballot measure creating the con- tested primary structure, by a wide majority in the 2004 general election.Although aimed at enacting the kind of non- partisan primary envisioned in Supreme Court dicta from California ...
While 84.8% of the state’s nearly 4.9 million voters returned a ballot for the Nov. 3 general election, the final rate Tuesday hit 84.1% after county canvassing boards reviewed ballots that were challenged over issues like signatures or postmarks. Tuesday was the last day...
Article II, Section 19 applies to initiative measures. This constitutional provision is applied to the ballot title where an initiative to the people is concerned. Washington Fed'n of State Employees, 127 Wash. 2d at 548, 551-55,901 P.2d 1028. ...
ANAHEIM -- As Ron Washington took the microphone for the first time after being officially introduced as Angels manager on Wednesday at Angel Stadium, it would have been easy to mistake his initial comments as a pep rally or a motivational speaking engag
Don’t laugh, but in down-ballot, under-the-radar races, being near or at the top of the ballot can get a candidate a few extra points. Research of varying quality has found this to be the case inDanish local and regional elections,Vancouver local elections,California state elections,Calif...
California voters rejected an assisted-suicide initiative similar to Washington's in 1993. On the other hand, in 1994, voters in Oregon enacted, also through ballot initiative, that State's "Death With Dignity Act," which legalized physician-assisted suicide for competent, terminally ill adults.14...