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Good afternoon and happy election day from the KUOW Newsroom.

This is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning.

We'll have election results first thing on the show tomorrow morning.

Today, some other news is creeping through about the holly plant.

That's in a few minutes.

But first, here's our roundup of today's top stories. It's

Tuesday, November 5th. If you haven't voted or even registered yet, you can do so in person

until 8 o'clock tonight. At a voting center in Kent today, the line was about 100 people long

and an hour wait. Zinn Bells says

they were voting in person because they didn't register in time to get a ballot in the mail,

but they want their vote to count. I am an indigenous non-binary human being, and if I don't vote,

I feel like I'm doing a disservice to other indigenous non-binary human beings.

We got to represent the little guy and I'm the little guy.

Bells works at an early childhood development center and said they had to squeeze in time today to vote.

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