Hey #WashingtonState voters, we have one more day to get the #RankedChoiceVoting bill out of committee in the state legislature. Please take a moment to call the Legislative Hotline at (800) 562-6000 and register your support for the Washington VOICES Act, HB 1448!

Here's a link to the bill: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1448&Year=2025

And here is FairVote Washington's one-pager: https://fairvotewa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/FairVote-WA_Washington-VOICES-Act_012225.pdf

Now that ballots are arriving in Washington State, please check out the FairVote Washington candidate endorsements, especially for the very important Whatcom County Charter Review Commission: https://fairvotewa.org/candidate-recognition-2024/

I dug into my archives and found this map I made of 2016 election results aggregated by the (then) new Whatcom County council districts introduced in 2017. Gives a rough sense of the political alignment in our small county here in the northwest corner of Washington State.

I need to update this map with new data from all the elections since 2016, obviously, but it's a hassle to work with the precinct level results. Soon.

People forget that Gov Inslee appointed Hobbs to Secretary of State to get him out of the way in the #WALeg because he was such an obstructionist. Now, no surprise, he's being an obstructionist in the SoS office.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/02/11/op-ed-state-secretary-hobbs-is-wrong-to-oppose-ranked-choice-voting/

Lots of opportunities to multiply the impact of your donations on #GivingTuesday. For example, all gifts to #FairVote Washington are matched today: https://fairvotewa.org/donate/