General Election ballots will be mailed out by Friday, October 19. Ballots must be postmarked and sent back to your county auditor by Tuesday, November 6. If you have not received your ballot or you need to request a new one, you can find contact information for your county auditor here.

If you are unsure which Legislative District you live in, please refer to your ballot you receive in the mail, or you can look up your district here.

For more information regarding the endorsement process or to get involved in election activities, contact Local 117 Political Director Dustin Lambro at 206-441-4860 ext. 1262. 

A Note About Endorsement Recommendations

Your vote is your voice and yours alone. No one can take that away from you. We hope you will consider our endorsement recommendations as a point of information, just as you'd consider endorsements from other organizations to which you might belong. Our endorsements are guided by our mission statement, "to build unity and power for all working people," and our Political Advisory Committee makes recommendations based on that mission. We also do not use any dues dollars when we contribute to candidates. We only use money members voluntarily contribute to our PAC. If you are interested in contributing to DRIVE, please talk to your Union Rep or contact the Union at 1-888-872-3489.

In addition to the endorsements Teamsters 117 makes, we also participate with the other Washington State Teamster locals in races for federal office (Congress and U.S. Senate). Here are those endorsements on your ballot.

In addition to the elections for legislative and federal offices, we also took a position on two issues that will be on your ballot in November statewide: Initiatives 1634 and 1631.

SUPPORT Initiative 1634, which would preempt cities and counties from passing taxes on groceries, including soda. Washington State already has the most regressive tax structure of any state. Additional taxes on groceries only makes that worse, because sales taxes disproportionately impact working families. Until the state deals with our unbalanced system that allows corporations to use loopholes to their benefit, and continues to allow wealthy people from paying their fair share, we can't support more regressive taxes.

SUPPORT Initiative 1631, which would impose a pollution fee on our state's largest polluters. Right now the largest polluters can pollute for free while the rest of us pay the costs. I-1631 would put a fee on the state’s largest polluters, like the oil industry and utilities that have not switched over to clean energy, and invest in protecting our air and water and building new clean-energy infrastructure across the state. We know with this initiative, we can protect our health, build new good paying jobs, and ensure a cleaner future for the next generation. Most important for earning our support, the measure ensures workers in the fossil fuel industry affected by the transition have an opportunity to maintain their quality of life, build skills, and attain family-wage jobs.