I needed to remind myself a few instances that we’re solely voting in native and county elections this fall. These Washington governor and president and lawyer basic elections are all occurring in 2024, people.
Tighten your seat belt; It will be a rocky yr and a half. The 2024 marketing campaign has already began and I count on to listen to about these races all through 2023 and thru to subsequent November. Possibly on November sixth, 2024 I will ditch my crimson, white and blue gown and discover a new job centered on meals or vogue information.
Within the meantime, we have to be conscious of the native races that can be determined over the following few months. Native selections can have a significant affect on our day by day lives, from how parks are maintained to how excessive our rubbish and tax payments are.
Crosscut helps you keep on monitor with our voter information centered on this yr’s election in Seattle and throughout Washington. In earlier odd-numbered elections, we’ve centered totally on the Seattle Metropolis Council, which represents many, however in no way all, of our readers. Following final fall’s success in protection of congressional elections throughout Washington, this yr we’re taking the following step in protection of statewide elections.
This yr, along with Seattle, we’ll be visiting Bellingham, Tacoma, Spokane, and Yakima to see what’s on these ballots. To this point, due to the information, we all know that voters have a variety of choices in these elections. If you happen to stay in these cities, you may want some assist sorting your ballots, as most media reviews (sure, even at Crosscut) are already specializing in the yr 2024. That is one of many causes we determined to increase our odd yr election information past the western shores of Lake Washington. The opposite is that we have to construct muscle to totally cowl subsequent yr’s elections statewide: from the Legislature to the Governor’s Workplace and in each congressional district.
The nationwide voter information is simply step one. We can even be writing native election tales exterior of Seattle. If you happen to’re studying Crosscut from one in all these cities, we’d even ship a workforce to go to. Subscribe to our election e-newsletter to seek out out extra. If you already know of an thrilling or momentous native election that we must always control, please e-mail me and we’ll look into it. And if you would like me to ship you a weekly calendar reminder that it is 2023 and never 2024, let me know.
