I saw that which you see here, this morning, via the online version of the Seattle Times. Everett is a city at the north end of the Seattle-Tacoma-Everett Metropolitan Area.
On ballots in Washington, in addition to political positions, there are multiple initiatives, propositions, referendums and bond issues.
In Washington a citizen can take the initiative to get enough signatures to put an initiative on the ballot, be it on the city, county or state level.
From the first time I voted, in Texas, til the most recent time voting in Texas, it has been quite noticeable there are way fewer things to vote on, in Texas, than I was used to in Washington.
California and Oregon are the same as Washington. Multiple measures to vote on. Why such a difference between the west coast and my location in the South? I have no idea why there is such a difference.
The west coast states seem to be a much more participatory democracy than Texas is. Does it have something to do with the west coast population being much better educated?
Anyway, such differences are perplexing...
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