Elections

Serious changes to Seattle elections could be on your ballot next year

City council member Teresa Mosqueda is floating a proposed charter amendment to change when Seattle elections occur. It would "stagger" city council elections to reduce the number held in a single year, and also seeks to move all Seattle races from odd years to even years to try and juice voter turnout.

Does Washington state's ballot signature rule disenfranchise voters?

On Tuesday King County Superior Court Judge Mark Larrañaga heard a case challenging Washington State’s ballot verification system as discriminatory but made no ruling.

It’s official: Ferguson is running for governor and he has Inslee’s support

Judge temporarily blocks Dayton library dissolution from the fall ballot

A measure to dissolve a small library district in southeastern Washington is blocked – for now – from the November ballot.

Spotlight back on public safety in Seattle's Little Saigon neighborhood

George Nguyen owns the Lam Seafood Market in Seattle's Little Saigon neighborhood. Nguyen said the crime and drug use outside — and inside — his store has gotten so intense in recent months that he's had to put up a foreboding barbed wire fence near the entrance. Now he worries the fence is driving away customers. "The last thing I wanted to do was make our neighborhood look like a prison yard," Nguyen said.

WA lawyer who made false election claims can't practice law for a year

UW professor responds to Republicans' accusations that she colluded to 'censor Americans'

A University of Washington professor at the center of a congressional investigation says Republicans have mischaracterized her work.