Shortly after 8pm on November 8, 2016, a group of friends who had gathered in my basement abandoned the news and headed to the Waterwheel Lounge in Ballard. If anybody there cared that there was an election going on, they sure didn’t show it, and that made it an exceedingly pleasant place to nurse a beer over the next few hours before facing up to reality. As we descend into another election period, the timelessness of an excellent dive bar still provides an ideal antidote to the tension.
On top of Washington’s already free and forgiving mail-in voting, King County makes it exceedingly easy for even last-minute voters to
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