Thurston County Sample Ballot

This sample ballot contains all candidates and measures certifi ed to appear on the November 6, 2012, General Election ballot. Be sure to follow all instructions on your actual ballot. Ballots will begin arriving on October 18, 2012. Please refer to the Thurston County Auditor’s Offi ce website at www.ThurstonVotes.org for additional election information.

Note: Not all of these candidates and measures will appear on your ballot. Your ballot will contain only the races and measures for which you are eligible to vote.

State Measures State Measures State Measures

Proposed by Initiative Petition Proposed to the Legislature and Advisory Vote of the People Initiative Measure No. 1185 Referred to the People Advisory Vote No. 1

Initiative Measure No. 1185 concerns Initiative Measure No. 502 Engrossed Senate Bill 6635 tax and fee increases imposed by state government. This measure would restate Initiative Measure No. 502 concerns The legislature eliminated, without a vote existing statutory requirements that marijuana. This measure would license of the people, a business and occupation legislative actions raising taxes must and regulate marijuana production, tax deduction for certain fi nancial be approved by two-thirds legislative distribution, and possession for persons institutions’ interest on residential loans, majorities or receive voter approval, over twenty-one; remove state-law costing $170,000,000, in its fi rst ten and that new or increased fees require criminal and civil penalties for activities years, for government spending. majority legislative approval. that it authorizes; tax marijuana sales; and earmark marijuana-related revenues. This tax increase should be: Should this measure be enacted into law? Repealed Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes Maintained No Yes No Advisory Vote of the People Proposed by Initiative Petition Proposed to the People by the Advisory Vote No. 2 Legislature - Amendment to the Initiative Measure No. 1240 Substitute House Bill 2590

Sample Ballot State Constitution Initiative Measure No. 1240 concerns Engrossed Senate Joint Resolution The legislature extended, without a creation of a public charter school No. 8221 vote of the people, expiration of a tax system. This measure would authorize on possession of petroleum products up to forty publicly-funded charter The Legislature has proposed and reduced the tax rate, costing schools open to all students, operated a constitutional amendment on $24,000,000, in its fi rst ten years, for through approved, nonreligious, nonprofi t implementing the Commission on State government spending. organizations, with government oversight; Debt recommendations regarding and modify certain laws applicable to Washington’s debt limit. This amendment This tax increase should be: them as public schools. would, starting July 1, 2014, phase-down the debt limit percentage in three steps Repealed Should this measure be enacted into law? from nine to eight percent and modify the Maintained Yes calculation date, calculation period, and No the term general state revenues. County Measure

Should this constitutional amendment be: Thurston County Passed by the Legislature and Ordered Approved Proposition No. 1 Referred by Petition Rejected Shall Public Utility District No. 1 of Thurston Referendum Measure No. 74 Proposed to the People by the County construct or acquire electric Legislature - Amendment to the facilities for the generation, transmission or The legislature passed Engrossed State Constitution Substitute Senate Bill 6239 concerning distribution of electric power? marriage for same-sex couples, modifi ed Senate Joint Resolution No. 8223 domestic-partnership law, and religious Yes freedom, and voters have fi led a suffi cient The Legislature has proposed a No referendum petition on this bill. This bill constitutional amendment on investments would allow same-sex couples to marry, by the University of Washington and If a primary election was held for an offi ce, the two preserve domestic partnerships only for Washington State University. This candidates who received the most votes in the seniors, and preserve the right of clergy amendment would create an exception Primary advanced to the General Election. or religious organizations to refuse to to constitutional restrictions on investing perform, recognize, or accommodate any public funds by allowing these universities Each candidate for partisan offi ce may state a marriage ceremony. to invest specifi ed public funds as political party that he or she prefers. A candidate’s authorized by the legislature, including in preference does not imply that the candidate is nominated or endorsed by the party, or that the Should this bill be: private companies or stock. party approves of or associates with that candidate. Approved Should this constitutional amendment be: Rejected The election for President and Vice President is Approved different. Candidates for President and Vice President are the offi cial nominees of their Rejected political party. 1 Thurston County Sample Ballot

Federal Partisan Offi ces Federal Partisan Offi ces State Partisan Offi ces U.S. Representative President / Vice President Attorney General Congressional District No. 10 Four Year Term Vote for One Four Year Term Vote for One Two Year Term Vote for One Barack Obama / Joe Biden Denny Heck Bob Ferguson Democratic Party Nominees (Prefers Democratic Party) (Prefers Democratic Party)

Mitt Romney / Paul Ryan Richard (Dick) Muri Reagan Dunn Republican Party Nominees (Prefers Republican Party) (Prefers Republican Party)

Gary Johnson / James P. Gray ______Write-in Libertarian Party Nominees Write-in State Partisan Offi ces Commissioner of Public Lands Virgil Goode / James N. Clymer Four Year Term Vote for One Constitution Party Nominees Governor Four Year Term Vote for One Peter J. Goldmark Jill Stein / Cheri Honkala (Prefers Democratic Party) Green Party Nominees Jay Inslee (Prefers Democratic Party) Clint Didier Peta Lindsay / Yari Osorio Rob McKenna (Prefers Republican Party) Socialism & Liberation Party Nominees (Prefers Republican Party) ______James Harris / Alyson Kennedy Write-in ______Socialist Workers Party Nominees Write-in State Nonpartisan Offi ce Ross C. (Rocky) Anderson / Lieutenant Governor Superintendent of Public Instruction Luis J. Rodriguez Four Year Term Vote for One Four Year Term Vote for One Justice Party Nominees Brad Owen Randy I. Dorn ______(Prefers Democrat Party) Write-in (Include Party) ______

Write-in Sample Ballot Bill Finkbeiner (Prefers Republican Party) State Partisan Offi ce

READ: ______Insurance Commissioner Write-in Four Year Term Vote for One

Each candidate for President and Vice Secretary of State President is the offi cial nominee of a Mike Kreidler Four Year Term Vote for One (Prefers Democratic Party) political party. For other partisan offi ces, each candidate may state a Kim Wyman political party that he or she prefers. John R. Adams (Prefers Republican Party) A candidate’s preference does not (Prefers Republican Party) imply that the candidate is nominated or endorsed by the party, or that the Kathleen Drew ______party approves of or associates with (Prefers Democratic Party) Write-in that candidate. ______State Legislative Partisan Offi ces Write-in Federal Partisan Offi ces Legislative District No. 2 Senator State Treasurer U.S. Senator Four Year Term Vote for One Six Year Term Vote for One Four Year Term Vote for One Randi Becker Maria Cantwell Jim McIntire (Prefers Republican Party) (Prefers Democratic Party) (Prefers Democratic Party) Bruce L. Lachney Michael Baumgartner Sharon Hanek (Prefers Democratic Party) (Prefers Republican Party) (Prefers Republican Party) ______Write-in ______Write-in Write-in Legislative District No. 2 Representative Position No. 1 State Auditor U.S. Representative Two Year Term Vote for One Congressional District No. 3 Four Year Term Vote for One

Two Year Term Vote for One Gary Alexander James Watkins (Prefers Republican Party) Jaime Herrera Beutler (Prefers Republican Party) (Prefers Republican Party) Greg Hartman Troy Kelley (Prefers Democratic Party) Jon T. Haugen (Prefers Democratic Party) (Prefers Democratic Party) ______Write-in ______Write-in Write-in Note: Not all of these candidates and measures will appear on your ballot. Your ballot will contain only the races and measures for which you are eligible to vote. 2 Thurston County Sample Ballot

State Legislative Partisan Offi ces State Legislative Partisan Offi ces State Judicial Nonpartisan Offi ces Legislative District No. 2 Legislative District No. 35 Supreme Court Justice Representative Position No. 2 Representative Position No. 1 Position No. 9 Two Year Term Vote for One Two Year Term Vote for One Six Year Term Vote for One J.T. Wilcox Kathy Haigh Sheryl Gordon McCloud (Prefers Democratic Party) (Prefers Republican Party) Richard B. Sanders ______Dan Griffey Write-in Write-in (Prefers Republican Party) Legislative District No. 20 Court of Appeals, Division 2, District No. 2 ______Senator Position No. 2 Write-in Six Year Term Vote for One Four Year Term Vote for One Dan Swecker Legislative District No. 35 Pamela (Pam) Loginsky Representative Position No. 2 (Prefers Republican Party) Two Year Term Vote for One Thomas Bjorgen Drew C. MacEwen ______John E. Braun Write-in (Prefers Republican Party) (Prefers Republican Party) County Judicial Nonpartisan Offi ces ______Lynda Ring-Erickson Write-in (Prefers Democratic Party) Superior Court Judge Position No. 2 Legislative District No. 20 Four Year Term Vote for One ______Representative Position No. 1 Write-in Christine Schaller Two Year Term Vote for One Richard DeBolt Thurston County Partisan Offi ces Jim Johnson (Prefers Republican Party) County Commissioner ______Write-in District No. 1 ______Four Year Term Vote for One Write-in Superior Court Judge Cathy Wolfe Position No. 4 (Prefers Democratic Party) Legislative District No. 20 Four Year Term Vote for One Representative Position No. 2 Erik D. Price Two Year Term Vote for One Karen Rogers Indu Thomas Ed Orcutt (Prefers Democratic Party) ______(Prefers Republican Party) ______Write-in Write-in John Morgan Thurston County Nonpartisan Offi ce (Prefers Republican Party) County Commissioner District No. 2 Public Utility District Four Year Term Vote for One Commissioner, District No. 1 ______Short + Six Year Term Vote for One Write-in Sandra Romero (Prefers Democratic Party) Linda Oosterman

Sample Ballot Legislative District No. 22 Senator Steve Fossum Four Year Term Vote for One Andrew Barkis ______Karen Fraser (Prefers Republican Party) Write-in (Prefers Democratic Party) ______Write-in Local Measures ______City of Olympia - Proposition No. 1 Write-in State Judicial Nonpartisan Offi ces Sales and Use Tax Increase of 0.1% for Public Safety and Criminal Justice Purposes Supreme Court Justice Legislative District No. 22 Position No. 2 The City Council of the City of Olympia Representative Position No. 1 Six Year Term Vote for One adopted Resolution No. M-1780 concerning a Two Year Term Vote for One Susan Owens sales and use tax increase pursuant to RCW Chris Reykdal 82.14.450. If approved, this proposition ______would authorize the City to impose an (Prefers Democratic Party) Write-in additional sales and use tax of 0.1%, split Supreme Court Justice between the City (85%) and Thurston ______County (15%) as required by state law. City Write-in Position No. 8 proceeds shall be used for public safety and Short + Six Year Term Vote for One criminal justice purposes as allowed by RCW Legislative District No. 22 82.14.450. Representative Position No. 2 Steve Gonzalez Two Year Term Vote for One ______Write-in Should this proposition be: Sam Hunt (Prefers Democratic Party) Approved Note: Not all of these candidates Rejected ______and measures will appear on your Tanglewilde Parks and Recreation District Write-in ballot. Your ballot will contain only Proposition No. 1 the races and measures for which Property Tax Levy you are eligible to vote. Shall the Tanglewilde Parks and Recreation District be authorized to impose regular property tax levies of $0.60 or less per thousand dollars of assessed valuation for each of six consecutive years?

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