ELECTION 2025: Less than a day and a half to vote!

(Photo sent by Amy)

Members of West Seattle Indivisible were out sign-waving this morning on the SW Andover pedestrian/bicycle overpass near the southwest end of the West Seattle Bridge, not for any candidate(s), but just to encourage people to vote, and we’re told they are planning to be on the Delridge foot/bike overpass at day’s end. With general-election voting ending in just a day and a half, King County Elections says they’re just now processing ballots picked up over the weekend, so the return stats haven’t risen much, but KCE spokesperson Halei Watkins tells WSB, “I was just upstairs and saw that we have lots of full bins coming in from drop boxes as well so I would expect that number to keep creeping up at a decent pace throughout the afternoon and processing ends at 6 pm. For turnout, we’re trending just a point or two behind where we would expect to be and are seeing very busy drop boxes even so far today. So fingers crossed we’ll meet or beat that 45%!” Meantime, 8 pm Tuesday (tomorrow) remains the deadline for getting your ballot into one of those KC Elections drop boxes. Can’t find or accidentally tossed your ballot? Here’s how to get a last-minute replacement!

Admiral2009 November 3, 2025 (12:41 pm)

Seattle has a competent and experienced Mayor for the 1st time in years that deserves to be elected to a second term. Crime is down, downtown Seattle is much cleaner and things are way better than before he took over.

Sam November 3, 2025 (3:02 pm)

Harrell brandished a gun at a pregnant woman over a casino parking spot.
- Oerthehillz November 3, 2025 (5:45 pm)
  
  Brandishing is their word against his. There was no proof the unloaded gun was ever in his hand.
  - K November 3, 2025 (6:04 pm)
    
    Except that Harrell admitted it? And then he blew it off as the decisions of a young man (in his 30s) and never apologized. Someone attributing any kind of crime prevention on a guy with his track record is laughable.
    - oerthehillz November 4, 2025 (8:18 am)
      
      I guess I see brandishing and exposed gun as different. Pointing was accused and he did not admit to that.
    - K November 4, 2025 (11:28 am)
      
      A threat is a threat, no matter how you try to split hairs to make it sound better. It was a completely inappropriate response to a minor dispute, showing very poor judgment at the time and a complete lack of remorse, compassion for the victim, and ability to take accountability for his own actions in the years since then.
Bree November 3, 2025 (3:03 pm)

Can’t tell what’s sarcasm anymore, but I’ll assume it is.
Kadoo November 3, 2025 (10:24 pm)

Amen. Experience matters.

Derek November 3, 2025 (3:20 pm)

If experience is what you want then Erika over Ann is easy choice. I voted all the progressive female candidates.. Katie, Dionne, Alexis, Erika.

Actualperson November 3, 2025 (4:49 pm)

I wanted common sense so I voted for none of those candidates.
Alan Ford November 3, 2025 (5:00 pm)

If easy choice is what you want, then yes, by all means vote “Erika”. After all, she’s “bringing compassion” to the City Attorney position. Not for the victims, of course, don’t be ridiculous.
And while you’re at it, might as well vote for Ksham… I mean Katie “Houses-For-Fentanyl-Users” Wilson.
Why have incompetent ideological fanatics only on the federal level?
- K November 3, 2025 (9:25 pm)
  
  Ann Davidson cleared her case backlog by dismissing most of them. Curious how that shows compassion for victims.
JP November 3, 2025 (11:22 pm)

Why do you insist on commenting on every election thread with your candidate choices? It is not a mystery to anyone familiar with your tired pablum on this site who you are voting for. Both options for City Attorney are terrible. Evans sounds like the last thing the city needs but I don’t know how anyone could take Davison seriously as she continues to pat herself on the back for the ridiculous posture of suing Korean car manufacturers for making their cars too easy to break into.
- Nolan November 4, 2025 (1:24 pm)
  
  Speaking of pablum, how is Evans “the last thing the city needs”?
Look Both Ways November 4, 2025 (7:58 am)

Katie’s inexperience is an immediate disqualifier. She’s never managed a budget anywhere near as large as Seattle’s. It’s disappointing she’s even made it this far. Harrell is good enough to continue the job.
- Nolan November 4, 2025 (1:22 pm)
  
  Wilson got JumpStart passed. What has Harrell done for us people living in Seattle, instead of big business or the worst impulses of SPOG?
  
  Spare us this bad-faith smear about a successful community organizer with political victories being “inexperienced”.

Tax dollars at work November 3, 2025 (7:52 pm)

OMG! That’s the pedestrian overpass our city spent $5 million dollars on seismic retrofitting. Glad it’s getting good use since pedestrians don’t use it at all.

WSB November 3, 2025 (8:10 pm)

You’re thinking of the Delridge overpass. The one in the photo is the Andover overpass over the Fauntleroy Expressway end of the West Seattle Bridge. $2 mil
https://westseattleblog.com/2021/10/followup-construction-delayed-on-andover-pedestrian-bike-overpass/

Mellow Kitty November 4, 2025 (9:04 am)

I’d love to see a movement where everyone writes in a vote of no confidence until we get decent candidates we can vote for. I’m sick of having to vote against someone. I want to vote FOR someone.

Rhonda November 4, 2025 (12:26 pm)

I agree with you 110%, Mellow Kitty. I left the Mayoral race unmarked on my ballot for the first time, ever.
- Nolan November 4, 2025 (1:26 pm)
  
  I wish you four full, lively years of being reminded about this comment every time you complain in WSB comments about the next mayor.
  - Rhonda November 4, 2025 (6:18 pm)
    
    Nolan, whoever wins will make little difference as both have highly destructive policies for Seattle. Bruce Harrell does not deserve another term and Katie Wilson is unfit to run a hot dog cart.
Actualperson November 4, 2025 (12:54 pm)

MellowKitty. How about naming someone you would vote for.
anonyme November 4, 2025 (3:35 pm)

I agree with Mellow Kitty, and like Rhonda, I left the mayoral race (and several others) unmarked for the first time ever. For years I’ve been forced to vote for a candidate that is just slightly less objectionable than the other. This time both candidates are equally gag-worthy for different reasons related to what comes out of their mouths. One spouts lies, the other drivel. And there’s no point at all in voting for a candidate that is running unopposed. I would also like to see independents not only recognized as a third party choice able to vote in all elections, as I can’t stand either party at this point.

Sorry, comment time is over.