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I was going to say "I have voted," but I haven't dropped it in the mailbox yet. I miss walking into a school and using an actual voting machine, but that's sentiment; mail-in paper ballots seem like a reasonable way of holding an election.
My ballot has three city council seats, with two candidates for each; the neighborhood is absolutely full of lawn signs for one seat, has a significant number of the second, and nothing on the third. It also has three school board seats, one of them uncontested, and lawn signs for both candidates for one seat and neither candidate for the other. School board candidates tend to all have "I am in favor of good schools and petting kittens" platforms, and in one case I decided on the basis of "the one who isn't a mortgage underwriter." Someone else lost my vote in significant part because he has a website, but it comes up entirely blank in Firefox even after I tell NoScript to allow everything for that page. (Again, fairly generic candidate statements.)
I think these are officially non-partisan offices*, but candidates can and do say that they are endorsed by the King County Democrats. And one explicitly states that he is the Socialist Workers Party candidate for a port commissioner seat. (He has a wonderful platform, but it's generic in a different sense than the "we want good schools and fluffy kittens" ones: the Seattle Port Commission doesn't have much to do with abortion rights or preventing vigilantism.) As a newcomer, I first spent some time looking into what the port commission does; with limited data, it seems less dysfunctional than the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, but that's a low bar.
My ballot has three city council seats, with two candidates for each; the neighborhood is absolutely full of lawn signs for one seat, has a significant number of the second, and nothing on the third. It also has three school board seats, one of them uncontested, and lawn signs for both candidates for one seat and neither candidate for the other. School board candidates tend to all have "I am in favor of good schools and petting kittens" platforms, and in one case I decided on the basis of "the one who isn't a mortgage underwriter." Someone else lost my vote in significant part because he has a website, but it comes up entirely blank in Firefox even after I tell NoScript to allow everything for that page. (Again, fairly generic candidate statements.)
I think these are officially non-partisan offices*, but candidates can and do say that they are endorsed by the King County Democrats. And one explicitly states that he is the Socialist Workers Party candidate for a port commissioner seat. (He has a wonderful platform, but it's generic in a different sense than the "we want good schools and fluffy kittens" ones: the Seattle Port Commission doesn't have much to do with abortion rights or preventing vigilantism.) As a newcomer, I first spent some time looking into what the port commission does; with limited data, it seems less dysfunctional than the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, but that's a low bar.