Get your ballot to a drop box + How to print a replacement ballot or register in-person

It may be too late to rely on the post office to mail your ballot ahead of the November 4 election, so anyone with a ballot still lying around should fill it out and get it to a ballot drop box (King, Pierce, Snohomish) by 8 p.m. Tuesday. Also send this info to your friends and family who are less engaged than you are.

Any registered voter who has lost their ballot can complete and print a replacement ballot online (King, Pierce, Snohomish). You can also register and/or vote in-person now until the polls close by going to a voting center, though check the open hours before going (King, Pierce has unlisted extended hours until 6 p.m. Monday and 8 p.m. Tuesday, Snohomish).

Check out our endorsement of Katie Wilson for Seattle Mayor as well a compilation of endorsements around the region from Washington Bikes, Transportation for Washington, the Urbanist and the Transit Riders Union. If you're having trouble deciding who to vote for, seeing where these four very different orgs landed can give you a good idea. One surprise to me, for example, was that all four orgs endorsed Claudia Balducci for King County Executive while only the Transit Riders Union dual endorsed Girmay Zahilay. That race may end up being the closest major race on the ballot, and many people (including yours truly) are having a hard time deciding because they're both great. So if you care a lot about transportation policy, maybe these endorsement results are your tie-breaker.

This is a moment in Seattle history. We have not elected a mayor like Katie Wilson in modern memory. She is a genuine bike and bus riding grassroots community organizer and an effective coalition builder. Perhaps most remarkably, she is not overly egotistical, a problematic trait that nearly all successful politicians share. She doesn't always make everything about Katie, she centers the work and the partners who make it happen. She is also not afraid to take a chance on a new idea (like ORCA Lift and the JumpStart tax and social housing), and she has a remarkable success rate gathering the community and stakeholder buy-in to make them happen. She is the kind of politician people say they want but rarely get a chance to elect. A mayor who leads from within rather than on high. Electing Katie Wilson could be a chance to redefine the path to power at City Hall, a once-in-a-generation kind of event.

Don't sit this one out or rely on some promising polling to get Katie to the Mayor's Office. A handful of ultrawealthy people and companies are spending huge amounts of money to attack her and shift the race back in Harrell's favor. But we can defeat them with people power by volunteering for the Wilson campaign to get out the vote (for example, you can phonebank from your own home). If nothing else, contact all your friends and family to urge them to vote and offer to answer their questions.