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The King County Elections Chief Julie Wise said printed ballots have been legal since 2010.

Washington has nine independently elected statewide officeholders. All but one of those elected officials has required their employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The holdout was the lone Republican.

SEATTLE — Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman is expected to be named to a key election-security position in the Biden administration, according to a report by CNN.

Two bills aim to expand public broadband in Washington, but there’s a hitch ‘It’s such drama, I’m telling you. I’ve never been in this situation before,’ one lawmaker says. By Melissa Santos, Crosscut Share: Michael Moore, an information technology construction coordinator, is seen with an explanatory board about telecommunications services at a co-location data center inside Grays Harbor Pubic Utility District's headquarters in Aberdeen on March 4, 2021. Two bills approved by Washington's Legislature would let public utility districts offer broadband to retail...

KXLY May 21, 2021 6:16 AM Crosscut. May 17, 2021 Washington state went all in on expanding public broadband this year. So much so, that the Legislature passed two different bills aimed at extending high-speed internet to people in rural areas. It’s possible, however, that two bills aren’t better than one. And they may partly cancel each other out. Now that Gov. Jay Inslee has signed both measures into law, confusion is mounting about whether the two laws can co-exist. And that debate may end up in court. Both House Bill 1336 and Senate Bill 5383 give public utilit...