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Spokane County’s voter turnout so far double the statewide average, two weeks until Election Day

Statewide, an average of 10% of Washington’s registered voters had cast their ballots as of Tuesday night, according to new data released by the Secretary of State’s office. Spokane County showed the third-highest voter turnout In the state according to the data, following Mason County’s 28% turnout and Thurston County who held a slim 0.10% lead over Spokane County’s turnout.

As Trump threatens mass deportations, some rural areas that back him rely heavily on immigrant labor

Dozens of calves groaned as Hermenegildo, a young Mexican farmworker, wheeled out a cart with bottles of milk. He attached the bottles to the wood pen of each calf, walking up and down the row as the animals guzzled the milk in minutes. The 600 cows on the dairy farm produce 5,000 gallons a day, which are trucked for processing into cheese at a plant owned by a Minnesota cooperative.

5 times when Donald Trump changed his stance on an issue

President Donald Trump has a record of saying outrageous, contradictory and untrue things. Fact-checkers have found thousands of falsehoods he has asserted about many issues, including the state of the economy, the threats posed by immigrants and his achievements as president.

Kamala Harris urges Black churchgoers to vote against ‘chaos, fear and hate’

Kamala Harris spent her 60th birthday Sunday working to turn out Black voters in Georgia, where she asked congregants at two churches to choose between a country of “chaos, fear and hate” - represented, she implied, by Donald Trump - and the “country of freedom, compassion and justice” she envisions.

Proposition 1: Idaho’s most heated election this year could reshape state voting process

If passed, the citizen-led ballot measure would establish a “top-four” primary system where all the candidates appear on a single primary ballot, regardless of party affiliation. The four candidates who earn the most votes in the primary would then advance to the general election ballot. Proposition 1 would also create a ranked-choice voting system in the general election, where voters have the option to rank candidates on the ballot in order of preference.