Sit down and vote!
Sit down and vote!
If you are not already signed up to receive an absentee ballot, you can find out where you need to go by visiting www.vote.wa.gov. You must be registered, even if it is just a change of address, at least 30 days before the election. If you want to automatically receive an absentee ballot, you must submit a written application, but you can still get the details from the website.
I got my absentee ballot in the mail yesterday. If you are like the majority of King County, which votes absentee, so did you. The tricky part is that the booklet explaining the issues was mailed earlier, and is now lost under a pile of paperwork somewhere in your den/office/living room.
It looks like this:
Got it? Good. Now, while you are thinking about it, open the pamphlet and fill out your ballot and stick it in the mail.
On the ballot this time are the following issues:
Initiative 960
Should we make our politicians go through extra voter notification and approval, and have a 2/3 majority vote for any fee increase.
Referendum 67
Should we make it illegal for insurance companies to unreasonably deny certain claims (this does not include health insurance).
Don’t be fooled into thinking that other lower-profile initiatives and elected positions which haven’t had the same amount of advertising are less important. Your day to day lives are probably more impacted the lesser local officials than, say, the President of the United States. Which, by the way, we will begin electing when we have the Washington State Presidential Primary on February 19th, 2008.
November 6th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
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