Residents of both Franklin and Benton County visited their respective Auditor's offices to drop off their voting ballot for the Nov. 4, 2008 election.
Some have been voting for more than 20 years, but for others this was their first time ever casting their vote.
One thing they all had in common was the importance they felt to raise their voice.
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Setting the record straight
Setting the record straight
My thanks to both Craig Liebler and Rick Barrett for writing letters to the editor informing us that the Washington Legislature has already passed the Presidential National Popular Vote.
How did the Legislature sneak that one by with so little media attention, or was I sleeping? No matter, the question now is what is our path forward? To reverse this law is probably not realistic, but perhaps we (the voters) could revise it. I suggest we start an initiative to adopt the Congressional District Method like Maine and Nebraska. It is also a form of popular vote.
The candidate carrying the congressional district gets the electoral vote for that district, and whoever carries the state gets the extra two votes. This way, Washington electoral votes reflect Washington voters rather than the "me-too" vote of the National Popular Vote that assigns all of our electoral votes to the candidate receiving the highest popular vote.
Paterson fire district race 1 vote apart
Paterson fire district race 1 vote apart
The race for Benton Fire District 6, Position 1, covering the Paterson area, has the challenger one vote ahead of the incumbent.
Richard Jackson and Steve McClintock were in a 50-vote tie on election night, but Jackson was in the lead Monday by one vote.
He has 69 votes to McClintock's 68 votes. The election will be certified today.
3 irrigation district incumbents re-elected
3 irrigation district incumbents re-elected
Three irrigation district incumbents were re-elected Tuesday to three-year terms.
Unofficial results for the Kennewick Irrigation District showed David McKenzie, the current board president, with 780 votes. His challengers Kirk Higginson received 41 votes and Jim Wade had 40 votes.
The Columbia Irrigation District voting gave Division 4 incumbent Jim Gose 119 votes, defeating challenger Wayne Ehlers with 19 votes.
Recent ballots show no big changes
Recent ballots show no big changes
A count of recently received ballots from last week's primary increased some candidates' leads and narrowed a few others but brought no changes in the lineup for the Nov. 8 general election.
Steve Young, Kennewick's Ward 3 councilman, still holds an easy two-to-one margin over the closest challenger, Loren Nichols, with 940 votes, for 62 percent.
Nichols, whose controversial stand against illegal immigration and call for Kennewick to be an English language-only city gave him media attention, earned nearly 26 percent, or 393 of the 1,523 ballots cast.
Initiative 1183: Yes
Initiative 1183: Yes
Hello, how did the drunken driver who hit and killed the person feature in the anti-Initiative 1183 ad buy his alcohol from a mini mart if the proposal hasn't even been voted on yet? I've been watching all of the vote "no" ads, and they all seem to lack common sense and are just trying to scare voters to vote against it. Please, get the state of Washington out of the liquor business and vote "yes."
ROBERT V. BATTERTON, Benton City
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