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These days, there's so much news. It can be hard to keep up with what it all means for you, your family, and your community.

The Consider This podcast from NPR features our award-winning journalism.

Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a news story and provide the context and analysis that

helps you make sense of the news. We get behind the headlines. We get to the truth. Listen to the

Consider This podcast from NPR. Happy Halloween from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle now.

I'm Paige Browning.

Coming up, we explore the capital gains tax and the effort to repeal it.

But first, a roundup of today's top stories, it's Thursday, October 31st.

Boo!

Before we get rolling today, I want to check in on you. Are you feeling election anxiety?

You're in good company, if so, and we want to hear from you. Call us and share how the election's affecting you and your strategies for coping with it. Leave us a brief voicemail today, if you can, at 206-6-6-16-6746. We may use

your comments in a future episode of the show, and thanks. Okay, on to the news.

Election officials are stepping up security in the wake of recent arson attacks, but some

aren't totally rattled because they've been threatened before. Here's Jeannie Lindsay to catch us up.

After a couple of ballot boxes were set on fire this week in and around southwest Washington, local

officials there ramped up security.

But some other election officials in Washington say they're prepared for similar threats,

like Pierce County auditor Linda Farmer.

We have been planning and plotting and thinking about this from every angle for the past 10 months.

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