Get out the vote · Washington 2026
Republicans don't lose Washington because they are outnumbered. They lose because they don't drop the ballot.
This is a vote-by-mail state. Nobody is coming to remind your people. You are the reminder. Confirm you are registered, drop your own ballot, then turn out five more.
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days until 8 p.m. Nov 3
Oct 16
Ballots mailed
Every registered voter gets one. No request needed. If it is not in the mailbox by the 20th, call your county.
Oct 26
Last day to register online
After that you must register in person at a voting center — through 8 p.m. on Election Day.
Nov 3 · 8 p.m.
Drop-box deadline
Official boxes close at 8. Mail must be postmarked that day. Use a box. Do not trust a last-minute mailbox.
The roll
Washington does not register Republicans. It just has them.
You pick no party when you sign up. The Secretary of State does not keep a Republican list. The people exist anyway — and a lot of them skip the primary, then skip November unless someone asks.
- 5,117,660
- Active registered voters
- 1,440,175
- 27% modeled Republican
- 1,530,923
- 39% Trump, 2024 general
- 786,445
- GOP presidential primary, 2024
September 1, 2026. Secretary of State. No party on the form.
L2 / Independent Voter Project modeled Republican score — not a state list.
Certified 2024 presidential vote for Donald Trump.
2024 Republican presidential primary ballots. Trump 601,070.
~745,000People who voted Trump in November and skipped the GOP primary in March. That gap is the job.
Sources: WA Secretary of State, vote.wa.gov. Modeled party from L2 / Independent Voter Project — not an official roll.
Illegal immigration
No official count. The estimates are not small.
Washington does not track legal status on the census. Neither does the Census Bureau. Every number is an estimate — residual method on ACS data, then an undercount adjustment. That is still the best published picture of people here illegally.
- 375,000
- 4.7% of the state, 2023
- 372,000
- CIS, late 2024
- 250,000
- Pew, 2015
- 13.5 million
- U.S. total, July 2026
Pew Research. 8th-highest share of any state. Latest full state breakdown.
Center for Immigration Studies. Same order of magnitude as Pew.
About 250,000 then. Up roughly 50% by 2023.
CIS. Down from 15.8 million in January 2025. No new Washington-only 2026 figure.
Hundreds of thousands. On the order of one in twenty people in this state. The 2023 peak is the last solid state number. Nationally the illegal population has fallen in 2025–26; Washington has likely come off that peak, still in the low-to-mid 300,000s.
Sources: Pew Research, 2023, CIS, Washington, CIS, July 2026 national. Not a headcount.
Your ballot
Do this, in order
0 of 7 done. Stays on this phone.
Confirm you are registered
Open VoteWA, look yourself up, and fix anything that's wrong. Same-day registration is allowed in person through Election Day.
Open VoteWAYour address is current
If you moved and did not update, the ballot goes to the old house. Update online by October 26, or in person through November 3.
Update addressBallot in hand
County offices mail ballots by October 16. If yours is not there by the 20th, request a replacement from your county elections office.
Sign the return envelope
Unsigned and mismatched signatures are how conservative ballots get tossed. Sign the same way you signed when you registered. Date it. Seal it.
Drop it in an official box
Do not mail it the last week. Drop boxes are open 24/7 from the day ballots go out until 8 p.m. on November 3. Postage-paid mail must be postmarked Election Day — don't gamble on the post office.
Track the ballot
VoteWA shows when it was received and whether the signature checked. If they challenge the signature, you have a short window to cure it.
Track ballotTurn out five Republicans
Name five people who vote like you. Text them the week ballots arrive, again the last weekend, and on November 3 if they have not dropped yet.
Washington is vote-by-mail
You do not go to a polling place unless you want to. The ballot comes to the house. The race is whether it comes back.
The signature is the vote
County elections compare it to your registration. A scribble, a maiden name, a missing date — that's a rejected Republican ballot.
Drop boxes beat the mailbox
Boxes are 24/7 from Oct 16 to 8 p.m. Nov 3. After mid-October, use one. Tell your five people the same thing.
Drop boxes
Your county
Pick the county where you are registered. These are well-known official boxes — hours and locations can shift. VoteWA has the list tied to your address.
Choose a county to see elections office and drop boxes.
The list
Five Republicans who will vote if you ask
Spouse, sister, neighbor, church friend, the man who always says he votes and then forgets the envelope. Names stay on this phone. 0 of 5 marked dropped.
Text them this
Washington votes by mail. Ballots go out Oct 16. Drop yours in an official box by 8pm Nov 3 — don't mail it that last week. Confirm you're registered: https://vote.wa.gov. I'm dropping mine. Are you?
Clubs are the turnout machine
A meeting is not the point. The point is five more ballots.
Take this list to Everett lunch, the Redmond pancake house, or the virtual club. Read the script. Assign streets. Republican women have been doing this in Washington since 1944 — this is the year it has to show up on the canvas.