Washington Secretary of State
Media Advisory
Issued: December 06, 2007

Olympia... Statewide measures on the 2007 General Election ballot have been certified.

About half of all registered voters turned out for the election, casting 1,645,652 ballots.

Most voters chose to vote by mail, accounting for 92.2% of the total ballots cast. Currently, thirty-six of thirty-nine counties cast their ballots entirely by mail. King and Kittitas Counties have plans to switch to all-mail voting in 2008.

Statewide measures certified today include:

Initiative 960: Tax and fee increases
Referendum 67: Insurance claims
Constitutional amendment 8206: Establishing a budget stabilization account
Constitutional amendment 8212: Inmate labor
Constitutional amendment 4204: School district tax levies
Constitutional amendment 4215: Investment of higher education permanent funds

Statewide measures generally go into effect today, thirty days after the election. ESSJR 8206 will go into effect on July 1, 2008.

Also certified were the results of State Senate District #19, Brian Hatfield, and the Court of Appeals Division III District #1 Position #2, Debra L. Stephens.

To view the General Election results visit www.vote.wa.gov.