League of Women Voters of Whidbey Island

07/17/2026

Primary Candidates forum for Leg District 10, Sheriff, and Island County Commish District 3.

Legislative District 10 state representatives, Island County commis...

07/17/2026

How do you vote for a judge?

The League steps up to provide voters with insights by way of a new online video series. Featuring six-minute, one-on-one recorded interviews with the candidates, Four Questions: Washington Supreme Court Candidate Interviews launched Wednesday, July 15. Go HERE-> https://lwvwa.org/Supreme-Court-Candidates

We encourage you to explore additional information about these and all candidates, particularly LWV's online voter guide Vote411.org, TVW's Video Voters' Guide, and the Washington State Supreme Court Elections Visualizer.

07/17/2026

Tonight: Primary Candidate Forum via Zoom for Legislative District 10 state representatives, Island County commissioner and sheriff.
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81304562517

If you can't make it tonight, we'll post the recording here tomorrow.

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07/10/2026

Primary Election Candidates Forum for Auditor, County Clerk, and County Assessor.
Special message:
Hey pals! We apologize for all the technological issues we had last night during our zoom sesh. Turns out Zoom has updated all kinds of things that we had thought we had figured out but NO.
Fingers crossed for next week, ha ha! (don't worry we are going to figure out where we went wrong).
A BIG thank you to the candidates who were able to make it last night and share their views. You were beyond patient and we appreciate you!

Another big thank you to Carla Grau-Egerton and the Forum Committee who put these forums together every year!

Sincerely, Karin Bolstad

Forum for the Island County assessor, auditor and clerk positions. ...

05/28/2026

Hi everyone! We are in the process of moving our website, and currently our old domain lwvwhidbey.org is not working for 24-48 hrs. That was not intentional, but you can find all our information at a temporary domain at https://whidbeyislandwa.lwv.org/

Sorry about the inconvenience!

04/23/2026

DEMOCRACY FEST WAS A HUGE SUCCESS!!!

The first ever Whidbey Democracy Fest left many participants asking if it could be an annual event. Over 350 people attended, including about 50 young future voters, and quite a few “dogs for democracy” that were out walking their humans and stopped in to explore.

Tony Cladusbid gave a land acknowledgement, everyone sang “America the Beautiful together to start the day, after a welcome by League of Women Voters President Judy Hucka.

A few highlights of the day:
Michele Reagan, Island County Elections supervisor gave two workshops on election security. Participants were impressed to hear that staff take annual handwriting recognition training, and each and every ballot signature is reviewed by trained staff!

Paul Revere, and the under-recognized 16 year old Sybil Ludington rode horses around the farm and performed a rousing skit in costume about their courageous rides.

Teams of four competed in a trivia contest
With questions from the U.S, Citizenship test. At least one team passed in each round, but found the questions challenging. What is one thing Alexander Hamilton is known for anyway?

In addition to kids craft tables, children voted for their priority if they were in charge of helping the animals on Whidbey. Reducing firework noise for dogs and other animals was the clear winner, followed by less plastic in the water for the orcas.

The weather was sunny and participants enjoyed their Whidbey pies and wood fired pizza at tables outside while listening to a variety of live music.

All in all, it was a community building day, reminding us all that “democracy is not a spectator sport!” -from Joy Lyon, LWV Whidbey's Events Committee lead

Thank you Joy for everything you do! And thank you for the many volunteers who made this event possible!