Keep your enthusiasm alive: vote!
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OK, it's like asking you eat your vegetables (and not just that Halloween candy!), but From Our Corner adds this Election Eve plea – please vote.
As of Monday morning, the returns were described as light in King, Snohomish, Clark, Yakima, Spokane, Pierce and other populous counties, and moderate-to-wimpy in other locales.
It literally couldn't get much easier to vote. Except for a relative handful of polling places in Pierce County, we're all voting by mail. Your ballot literally came to your mailbox several weeks ago and it takes very little time and energy to mark the ballot and get it outbound today or tomorrow. Sooner is better. If you're using snail mail, make sure your ballot will be postmarked by Tuesday. Some home pickups (like, uh, in Olympia) are actually sent to a nearby town for postmark. And beware evil mailboxes if the last Tuesday pickup has come and gone when you arrive.
Better is to use an official county drop-box or county elections office before 8 p.m. tomorrow evening. Sites can be located via the handy-dandy MyVote (click on icon).
Secretary Reed is forecasting a 51 percent turnout – and hoping for a last-minute surge. After last year's amazing record turnout of 85 percent and all of the 2008 election-year buzz, we know some drop-off is to be expected. But with so much at stake, both with the statewide ballot measures and tons of important local elections, it's sad to think to that only half of us will be making the decisions that will affect each and every one of us.
Nuff said. Eat your vegetables. Vote. Make your mother happy.
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Secretary of State
Steve Hobbs
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