Elections | WA Secretary of State

You've got mail! (Or you will soon ... )

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Keep an eye out for your ballot when you check your mailbox!

UPDATE: R-71 processing begins, disclosure challenged

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State election crews have begun counting the signatures submitted by sponsors of Referendum 71, the effort to

R-71 update: signature requests pending

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As Archives workers wrap up their microfilming of over 9,000 Referendum 71 petitions, public records requests are pending –and it could well lead to online posting of everyone who signed the petitions.

Archives will wrap-

5 Questions with the Assistant Director of Elections

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Shane Hamlin, assistant director for the agency’s Elections Division, fills you in on what’s next for Referendum 71 – and what needs to happen for it to get on the Nov.

R-71 backers bring in signature petitions

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Sponsors of Referendum 71, hoping to force a public vote this fall on the state's new "everything but marriage" domestic partnership bill, have brought in what they estimate are least 138,000 voter signatures.