Tuesday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
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🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Ballot boxes to get increased pick-ups in King County, SPD places former Police Chief Adrian Diaz on administrative leave, and corporate Starbucks employees are told to return to work. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.
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| 0:56.0 | Good afternoon from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning with a roundup of today's top stories. It's Tuesday, October 29th. Starting with our top story, ballot dropboxes are going to get |
| 1:04.7 | emptied more often in the coming week in King County, and a lot more eyes will be on the drop-off |
| 1:10.1 | locations throughout Washington. |
| 1:12.2 | Election officials are increasing security after those attacks on ballot boxes yesterday. |
| 1:17.4 | Jeannie Lindsay has more on this. |
| 1:19.9 | Officials in Clark County say they're weighing whether to add more fire safety measures to ballot |
| 1:24.9 | drop boxes. That's after two drop boxes in the region were set on fire |
| 1:29.5 | early Monday. The boxes use products that douse ballots in a fire suppressing powder in case of |
| 1:35.6 | excess heat. The system worked in Portland, Oregon, where only three ballots were damaged. |
| 1:41.6 | But in Washington, officials in Clark County are communicating with the |
| 1:45.2 | company that makes the fire suppressant to understand why it failed to put out the Vancouver |
| 1:50.3 | blaze where hundreds of ballots were damaged. Governor Inslee said this week that the attacks are |
| 1:56.0 | a, quote, threat to our democracy, ballot boxes in multiple Washington counties are equipped with similar |
| 2:02.2 | fire suppressant devices, and local officials have worked with law enforcement to increase security. |
| 2:08.9 | I'm Jeannie Lindsay in Olympia. Some voters in Vancouver, Washington, whose ballots were |
| 2:14.3 | destroyed in a fire are recasting their votes now. |
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