Individual voters’ pamphlet material available on line

By Evan Smith

Individualized voters’ pamphlet material for the Nov. 3 general election is available on line.

To find material about the candidates and measures on your specific ballots go online, type your name and either address or date of birth, and click on “Create My Guide; then, you’ll see all of the candidates and measures on your ballot but nothing that isn’t on your ballot.

For example, the guide for my Shoreline address shows King County, Court of Appeals/Division 1/ District 1, Port of Seattle, City of Shoreline, Shoreline School District, Shoreline Fire Department and Ronald Wastewater District candidates, and the state and county ballot measures. It didn’t show the Metropolitan King County Council races from other parts of the county, or candidates and measures in the other nine cities, other seven school districts or other 24 special-purpose districts in local voters’ pamphlets, nor does it have the candidates for the legislative race that is in our edition of the state voters’ pamphlet.

On the web site, click on the name of any local candidate to read his or her voters’ pamphlet statement; or click on the name of a county ballot measure to find its ballot title, explanatory statement, and statements for and against. If you click on the name of the unopposed appeals-court candidate, you’ll see the names of four judicial jurisdictions from around the state; then click on “Court of Appeals/Division 1/ District 1” to see a statement from the local candidate.

At the same site, a click on any of the state ballot measures will direct you to another site; so, go online, then, click on the name of any of the two initiative measures or four advisory votes to read same ballot titles and explanatory material that you’ll find himself in the state voters’ pamphlet.

The legislative district in the printed King County edition of the state voters’ pamphlet is the 30th District centered around Federal Way.

Evan Smith can be reached at schsmith@frontier.com.