Around here, we elect the director of the Department of Elections. “It’s just as stupid as it sounds,” the SECB wrote in 2007. We begged you not to make this an elected position—but you didn’t listen and you voted to make this position, which should be a civil-service gig, into an elected position. Okay, fine. If we have to elect our elections director—so stupid—then we want a rabid wonk who lives and breathes voter access and gargles with election minutia and oh, look, here’s Julie Wise, who’s spent 13 years “in love with elections” and is currently the deputy director of King County Elections. “This is my passion,” Wise told the SECB, promising to increase the number of ballot drop boxes in the county—about time, stamps aren’t free—and to stave off online voting until security concerns are resolved. We fell so hard for Wise’s election love that we could barely hear what her challengers, neither of whom were anywhere near as experienced, had to say to us. Or maybe the pot lozenges we passed around before the meeting were kicking in when it was their turn to talk. Who knows? Vote Wise.
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