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TGIF from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning. Coming up, the pet cat that's stealing attention this election season. I know I'm as surprised as you are hearing about this. But first, a roundup of today's top stories. It's Friday, November 1st.

Before we get started, we would love to hear from more of you about whether you're feeling election anxiety. Give us a call and leave a voicemail. Tell us how the election's

affecting you and your strategies for coping with it. Our numbers 206, 616-6746. We may use your comments in a future episode of the show. Thanks.

In our top segment today, where things stand with elections in Washington, Washington state voter

turnout has ticked up slightly in the past day to 43% statewide.

People can vote in person at any of King County's voting centers beginning tomorrow, Saturday.

At the election headquarters in Renton, the Lumen Field Event Center, the Husky Union Building at UW, and several other spots, you can register to vote, update your address, vote, or get a replacement ballot. We'll drop a link in the show notes.

And as always, you can still mail in your ballot or put it in a drop box by 8 p.m. Tuesday night.

In more concerning political news, police and muckleteo are looking for the people

accused of attacking a Muslim man who's running for a seat in the state house. Riaz Khan said he was

fixing campaign signs along the muckletoe speedway on Tuesday when two men started hitting him with

sticks. They ran off after he called 911.

Muckle Tio and federal authorities are investigating. Con is a former Muckelio City Council member

running as a Republican for State House. It is the final push before election night Tuesday,

and many Washingtonians have been heavily involved in getting swing state voters to turn out.

Scott Greenstone has the story.

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