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An absentee ballot is a vote cast by someone who is unable or unwilling to attend the official polling station to which the voter is normally allocated. Methods include voting at a different location, postal voting , proxy voting and online voting .
Washington uses a vote-by-mail system under the supervision of the Secretary of State, mandated statewide since 2011. Counties were previously able to choose between it and in-person voting from 2005 onward, of which all but one adopted vote-by-mail by 2011. [ 1 ]
Local governments in Washington had the option to do so since 1987, and statewide elections had permitted it since 1993. [82] By 2009, 38 of the state's 39 counties (all except Pierce County) had conducted all elections by mail. [83] Pierce County joined the rest of the state in all-mail balloting by 2014. [84]
Republican activists in Washington state are organizing surveillance of election ballot drop boxes, raising concerns about possible voter intimidation.
Less than 21% of Washington voters had submitted their ballots as of Monday evening, down from over 29% in 2020, according to the Washington Secretary of State's website. Just over 20% ...
In addition to Washington state, the following states also allow ballot selfies, according to the Lawyers for Good Government website: California. Oregon. Idaho. Montana. Wyoming. Utah. Colorado ...
The state of Washington has 12 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat. [ 2 ] Although Washington was a Republican-leaning swing state until the 1980s, Democrats have won Washington in every presidential election starting in 1988 ...
Biden won the state by 19.2%, the largest margin for a presidential candidate of any party since 1964. He also flipped the swing county of Clallam. Biden also became the candidate with the highest vote total in the state's history, with 2,369,612 votes. [4] This was the first time since 1988 that Washington voted to the left of Illinois.