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Old 10-07-2020, 11:58 AM
 
Location: WA
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Originally Posted by StealthRabbit View Post
"no later than October 16th" ...not too useful to those of use who travel FT w/o a forwarding addy.

Too slow too late... I am home for 7 days. leave on 13th (hit the road),

Guess my vote won't happen or count. (not unusual for the 35 of 39 counties in WA who form the 'minority'). Too bad I won't have a say in local matters, but a 'democracy' purposely does not represent the views or tax revenues or / job creation of those contributing and finding the financial health of the community.

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Great 'system' for renters / transient residents / those feeding off the public pig trough.
You can have your Clark County ballot sent directly to any out-of-state address that you want. They make it pretty easy compared to most other states: https://clark.wa.gov/elections/trave...uring-election

And if you are military or overseas, you can even return your ballot via email.: https://clark.wa.gov/elections/trave...uring-election

What would you have them do to accommodate you if you decide to be outside the state for long periods of time without a forwarding address?
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Old 10-08-2020, 12:50 PM
 
Location: Yakima yes, an apartment!
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I don't know how you got your ballot and sent it back already if you are a WA resident, unless you requested an advance absentee ballot. The regular ballots don't go out until next week.

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Curious...... ... I do recall the letter from the elections section. Had the ballot, secrecy envelope and the instructions as per normal.......about a month ago? If not for upcoming elections, then what was it? I do recall that it did have the choices for either party (Presidential) and other races......I am in Vancouver (Clark county) but get mail in Cowlitz county. Which includes election ballots
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Old 10-08-2020, 12:51 PM
 
Location: We_tside PNW (Columbia Gorge) / CO / SA TX / Thailand
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Send the ballot with enough leadtime to forward it to a travel location would be a very simple solution to availing the opportunity to vote.

There is so much fraud in WA state systems it really doesn't matter. Christine got elected with a lot of votes from felons and the deceased. (I was dealing with my dad's estate during that era. His vote was used in 2 elections after he died.) Yesterday the 4th case of WA state ESD (unemployment insurance) fraud came up in our very small employment group. (Hundreds of millions $ of fraud as of 5 months ago, greatest loss of all of USA systems, still ongoing.) https://www.npr.org/2020/05/22/86068...ployment-fraud
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Old 10-08-2020, 04:26 PM
 
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Curious...... ... I do recall the letter from the elections section. Had the ballot, secrecy envelope and the instructions as per normal.......about a month ago? If not for upcoming elections, then what was it? I do recall that it did have the choices for either party (Presidential) and other races......I am in Vancouver (Clark county) but get mail in Cowlitz county. Which includes election ballots
I think the counties operate fairly autonomously. I'm guessing that the 3-week deadline for mailing of ballots before an election is just that. A state deadline. And that different counties are free to send them out earlier if they want. Clark County has 5x the population and a lot more towns than Cowlitz County. So I'm guessing they have a lot more complex array of different ballots to deal with in addition to a lot more volume.
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Old 10-08-2020, 04:29 PM
 
Location: WA
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Send the ballot with enough leadtime to forward it to a travel location would be a very simple solution to availing the opportunity to vote.

There is so much fraud in WA state systems it really doesn't matter. Christine got elected with a lot of votes from felons and the deceased. (I was dealing with my dad's estate during that era. His vote was used in 2 elections after he died.) Yesterday the 4th case of WA state ESD (unemployment insurance) fraud came up in our very small employment group. (Hundreds of millions $ of fraud as of 5 months ago, greatest loss of all of USA systems, still ongoing.) https://www.npr.org/2020/05/22/86068...ployment-fraud
Basically allowing people doing out-of-state travel to use the same early absentee system as military and international ballots would accomplish the same thing with a lot less disruption. For 99.9% of the population getting your ballot 3 weeks in advance is not a problem.
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Old 11-04-2020, 08:45 AM
 
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I’ll just use this thread instead of opening a new one. Are there any significant changes for Clark County as a result of this election? Basically, if someone could explain to a non-local what will change, if anything. Thank you. I know that Portland passed some pretty major initiatives.
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Old 11-04-2020, 05:42 PM
 
Location: WA
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Nothing that I can see. I think one state legislative seat flipped from GOP to Dem but that's about it. The only binding initiative was the one about sex ed which was approved by a wide margin. So the fundamentalist Christians who were objecting to sex ed in schools and did all the church-based petition drives will have to put up with it or opt their kids out.

Mostly it is the same incumbents being returned. I only looked at the legislative races and not the county races so I'm not sure if any of them changed.
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Old 11-04-2020, 11:42 PM
 
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Nothing that I can see. I think one state legislative seat flipped from GOP to Dem but that's about it. The only binding initiative was the one about sex ed which was approved by a wide margin. So the fundamentalist Christians who were objecting to sex ed in schools and did all the church-based petition drives will have to put up with it or opt their kids out.

Mostly it is the same incumbents being returned. I only looked at the legislative races and not the county races so I'm not sure if any of them changed.
Thank you, texasdiver. That’s what I thought, but what do I know.
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