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How you helped shape our Seattle and King County voter guide

We’re sending your questions directly to candidates.

How you helped shape our Seattle and King County voter guide

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The voter guide you helped create is here.

You and your fellow Crosscut readers supplied the questions we asked Seattle candidates for mayor and city council and their answers are in our new voter guide for Seattle and King County. Thank you for helping us build a “citizens agenda” for this election. Everyone on our team agreed that your questions got to the heart of the challenges Seattle faces right now: from homelessness, to police reform to the economy.

These aren’t easy questions, however, so that is probably why only some of the candidates have sent in their answers. Until Aug. 3, we’ll keep adding more of their responses to the voter guide at least weekly, as they come in. And I’ll keep reminding the candidates that you, the voters, need to hear from them in order to make up your minds.


Want to fill out your ballot with confidence? Check out Crosscut's Seattle and King County Voter Guide to read candidates' responses to our audience's questions, and more.



Here are the questions you asked the candidates:


On homelessness:


On housing:


On police and public safety:


On taxes and the economy:


On transportation and urban planning:

As we continue to build our “citizens agenda,” we’re going to keep asking for your help. Right now, we need your feedback on our voter guide, which you can send to us by filling out this short Google Form. I already know that it’s not pretty and it’s a little dense. (We’re working on that. Crosscut loves projects.) Tell us what else you need to know: links to debate videos, information about where to find a ballot drop box, questions you want us to ask certain candidates, etc.

Thank you. We’re listening.

This story was first published in Crosscut's Weekly newsletter. Want to hear more from journalists like Donna Gordon Blankinship? Sign up for the newsletter, below.