Friday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
4.7 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Voting begins in WA, distracted driving is increasing, and will WA's long-term care program survive the election? It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Patricia Murphy.
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| 0:57.6 | Hey there from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle Now. I'm Patricia Murphy. Here are today's top stories. It's Friday, October 18th. |
| 1:09.0 | Today is the official start of voting in Washington State. Ballot drop boxes are open now, and some have already been visited by really early voters. |
| 1:12.4 | KUOW's Brooklyn Jamerson Flowers spoke with several at King County Election Headquarters in Renton. I decided to come vote early because actually I'm |
| 1:17.8 | doing grad school right now, so I can't really come back during the election day to vote. Plus, |
| 1:22.5 | I already made by decision the second the candidates were finally announced after their respective |
| 1:26.2 | conventions. That's why we're voting early for getting it out of the way. |
| 1:31.3 | And also, I've just been a nervous wreck. |
| 1:35.3 | Lori. |
| 1:36.3 | It takes some of the pressure off. |
| 1:38.3 | No, with the information that is mailed to us and information about the candidates and so on, it was easy to |
| 1:48.8 | determine which persons we wanted to vote for. Have you ever early voted before? All the time. |
| 1:56.8 | You're not at all worried that you might change your mind? I never changed my mind. |
| 2:00.8 | That was Bill, Leroy, and Gladys Leap, and Arthur Torosov. |
| 2:05.1 | Washingtonians have 18 days to vote. |
| 2:07.9 | Ballots either need to be postmarked or dropped off by November 5th. |
| 2:12.5 | The U.S. Navy says it's still searching for the crew of a crashed fighter jet found in a remote and heavily |
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