Your Ballot Has Been Mailed: Drop-off locations are open tomorrow!
 
Endorsements Are Out: You can even skip the full-sentences part and just look at the cheat sheet! (But don't you want to read to find out why one candidate for governor stormed out of our offices?)
 
You Own Pens: If you don't, come to The Stranger offices. We will lend you a pen! (You thought we'd give you one? Pens don't grow on trees!)
 
King County Has Even Quadrupled the Number of Ballot Drop Boxes This Year: Just to make it easier for you to vote! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!
 
Plus, There's a Cash Prize Hidden in Our Endorsements: Although we're not sure if the staffer who added that joke was being serious. We're pretty sure he was being serious? Anyway.

 
In Non-Election News, Seattle's Police Guild President Ron Smith Has Resigned: Smith was the one who published that Facebook post calling Black Lives Matter "disgusting" after the Dallas police shootings. "I regret that this post offended any one, as that was not the intent in any way," Smith wrote in his resignation letter. "We don’t need any further distractions in moving down the reform road."

Two Clark County Men Found a Loaded Gun While Playing Pokémon Go: They found a .32 Magnum in a field and called the police.
 
A Snohomish Woman Was Diagnosed with Zika: This is the second Zika diagnosis in Snohomish County. The woman had recently traveled to Ecuador. Reminder: Zika can be sexually transmitted.
 
Chinatown-International District Residents Say They Don't Report Crimes Because They Don't Expect the Police to Do Anything: A recent public safety survey showed that 59.5 percent of residents who had witnessed a violent crime said they did not report it to the police because "someone else called (40 percent) or because they did not expect any follow through by the police (31.9 percent)."
 
Washington State Doesn't Mandate Seismic Upgrades to School Buildings: And according to a recent Times analysis, more than 31,000 Washington students attend schools in tsunami danger zones.

 
Researchers Study Puget Sound Seal Poop: Scientists with the "Salish Marine Survival Project" want to know what kind of salmon, and how much, the seals are consuming. "First, they swab the outside of the scat to test DNA and determine the animal's sex," KING 5 reports. "Next, they collect the sample for lab tests to see what the seals are eating. The scat will also be tested for microplastics."
 
Grandparents and Parents Are Still Fasting on the Capitol Steps: This is Day Two of a three-day fast in protest of Governor Inslee's proposed carbon cap rule. The climate activists fasting in Olympia say it doesn't go far enough.

Mosier Fire Chief Testifies in Vancouver Oil-by-Rail Hearing: Jim Appleton said that oil trains were a risk "we should not be tolerating." The state's Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council will be hearing from witnesses about the possibility of building an oil-by-rail facility in Vancouver until the end of the month.

The Republican National Committee Platform Calls Pornography a "Public Health Crisis": The new platform would also ban women from combat, label coal "clean," overturn the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage, and restrict transgender people from using gender-segregated bathrooms. The new platform is even more extreme than it was four years ago.

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