As a person living in a neighboring state where the GOP is doing its best to disenfranchise voters most likely to vote Dem, this news from Tennessee isn’t surprising, but it is disgusting. Why not just bring back the Poll Tax and be done with it?  From Think Progress: Swept up in the craze of [...]

Lunch hour reports from Seattle indicated brisk business at official ballot drop boxes.  Even the Approve71 webmaster Joshco finally voted (Pic)!  Good thing too, since as of this morning only about 20% of ballots had been received back by the county elections division.  Voter turnout in King County is thought to be key to passage [...]

Today is the day! Here’s some great advice from campaign buddy Josh: Please make sure to mail in that ballot ASAP if you haven’t yet and keep on your friends & family all through today to vote. Call them, text them, email them, FB them, show up at their house, bang on their windows. Its [...]

Dear readers, we have reached the penultimate chapter of our story Ballot Voyage: An Approve Referendum 71 ballot odyssey! Chapter 3, in which a ballot signature is validated and the voter is credited with single-handedly saving the Domestic Partnership law from the scourge of hard-hearted anti-family judgmentalists! Well ok, maybe not single-handedly.  In fact, my [...]

Joe Mirabella has given us permission to re-post this story.  I think anyone working in the trenches for human rights will appreciate it. I think of my own late mom often these days – a registered nurse who started the first AIDS testing and support network in her region early in the epidemic, a time [...]

Update: Chef Thunder over at SLOG made this disquieting observation But remember this is the first all mail-in ballot it is hard to know who likely voters really are. Please everyone continue to talk to everyone about the importance of voting Approve on R-17 and getting that ballot in the mail.  Because we just really [...]

Update for PIERCE COUNTY VOTERS: It will cost you 61 cents in postage to mail back your ballots.  Apparently Pierce Co. ballots are heavier than ballots form other counties.  Alternately you can deposit your completed ballot for free in an official ballot drop box, poll or express booth. Here is an extensive list of locations. [...]

I got my ballot in the mail!  Join me on a fun-filled action-packed journey called Ballot Voyage: An Approve Referendum 71 ballot odyssey.   But first…this humorous cautionary tale! And now our story beings… Chapter 1, in which a ballot is received, marked, and mailed. It all started with a late-nite visit to my mailbox. [...]

It’s been a week since I did a general round-up of campaign happenings.  Wow, so much is going on I can’t hardly get it all down!  The Approve 71 campaign continues to be a vibrant combination volunteers working within the campaign on structured activities, and volunteers taking independent action in total sync with the campaign. [...]

Washington voters, this message is for you.  But you non-Washingtonians aren’t off the hook, uh uh!  Maybe you can’t cast a ballot for R-71, but you can vote with your wallets, and the beauty of that is that you really can vote early and vote often! >>> Forward this e-mail to everybody you know >>> [...]