Reports Delayed - Public Inspection Opening
Hello, everyone! Website Admin Tatiana here.
As you know, we aim to do plain-language transparency reports once a month, in addition to our legally required filings with the PDC.
Unfortunately, the past few months have been non-stop campaign work for all of us on the Committee, and our transparency reports to you have slipped. We regret that our transparency has suffered, and want to give at least a peek behind the curtain in the past few months.
Mini-Transparency-Report
In short, over the past several months, Jude has continued to largely self-fund the campaign, while getting several small value donations from supporters.
We have spent that money on:
Campaign literature for canvassing
Food Drive canvassing door hangers
Our first round of Get Out The Vote mailers, and a second upcoming round of mailers.
Hiring a campaign manager to organize our events.
Some more design work.
We’ve hosted two food drives, and have a third coming up. We’ve canvassed and called hundreds of voters, and we’re excited for this home stretch.
But none of that helps you know that we’re actually spending our money how we claim to be.
Public Inspections
On October 25, public inspection of campaign books starts. This is a PDC-mandated period where we must make our campaign financial records available to members of the public who schedule an appointment to inspect them. You can contact us at Erica@ElectJude.com or Admin@ElectJude.com to schedule that appointment.
Because this is PDC-mandated, you can actually inspect any candidate’s financial records - you can find the email to contact the candidate or committee in their C-1, which is the “Registration Form” on their PDC page overview.
Making our books available for inspection is something we are legally required to do. But this announcement is just what we’re doing because you deserve the transparency we’ve failed to provide. And we want to make sure that anyone who wants that transparency can get it.
Upcoming Work
We still want to get you transparency reports for August, September, and October. We don’t know when they’ll be up, or if we’ll finish them before November 4th.
In the next 2 weeks before the election, we still have 3000 doors to canvass, a food drive in Newcastle to run, a second mailer to design and send, more yard signs to put up, ads to post online, and events for other candidates to attend.
And our own ballots to fill out and maila as well.
We appreciate your patience as we hit the final stretch of this campaign. It’s been a wild ride, and we’re excited to share whatever comes next with you!
Tatiana Anthony
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If you're mailing your ballot, be aware that changes to USPS procedure may prevent your vote from being counted.
According to the WA Secretary of State in the link above, the best way to ensure your ballot is counted is by using a drop box. If a valid ballot is in the drop box by November 4th, it will get counted.
The issue is actual mail. All mail-in ballots must be postmarked by November 4th to be counted. But USPS procedure has changed, and postmarks are now being applied in batches. Some mailpieces are postmarked multiple days after USPS receives them. This means that if you put your ballot in your mailbox, or in a self-serve mailbox at the post office, even before November 4, there is a risk that it will not be postmarked until November 5th or later, and will not be counted.
If you do not have access to a drop box, and wish to mail your ballot, the communications manager for King County Elections recommends either mailing your ballot before Tuesday, October 28, or bringing your ballot to the post office desk and requesting a manual postmark from a postal worker when you drop it off.