Five weeks from today, it’s General Election Day (and one of the last times you’ll see signs like the one below, taken on Primary Election Day at our polling place). You can prepare by reading about the candidates and the ballot measures online — and by going to any of the candidate forums coming up around the area. Here are a few: At 6:30 tonight at the Georgetown Ballroom, all 9 city council candidates are scheduled to appear. Next week (6:30 pm October 11), the school-board candidates will appear at a forum at school district HQ. Then on October 18, the Alki Community Council will host a Q/A forum with the candidates for West Seattle’s open school-board seat (District 6) as well as the candidates for the open City Council Position 3 seat. TUESDAY EVENING ADDITION: Just heard about the Sustainable West Seattle RTID Forum on October 16.