![]() After eight months of playing at the Cavalier Lounge, Currington decided to give Music City another shot. In Nashville he worked in a local pawn shop for less than a year and he returned to his grandmother's house and joined a local country band. After graduation he moved to Nashville to pursue a career in music. As a Junior in high school Billy auditioned at the Opryland USA theme park, even though he did not make it. His step father later died of drinking and cancer. Nevertheless, it was his step father who introduced Billy to country music. Life was not good during his early years, as his step-father had a substance abuse problem which caused constant turmoil to the families life. His mother Donna married his step-father when he was just one and a half years old. Visit The Seattle Times at Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.Born on November 19, 1973, Billy was born and raised in Georgia, and has four sisters and two brothers. Nationally, the Post analysis projected turnout by the voting-eligible population will reach 66.5% - the highest mark in a century. That analysis found 74% of Washington's voting-eligible population participated, beating the previous modern-day mark set in 2004.Īcademics use the voting-eligible population standard - as opposed to the percentage of registered voters who vote - to track participation by anyone who could legally register and vote in a state. San Juan County recorded the highest at 89.4%, while Adams County had the lowest at 66.5% as of Friday.īy another important metric, Washington's projected voter turnout was the highest in 40 years, according to a Washington Post analysis based on data from the United States Elections Project. In Snohomish County, turnout reached 84.7% in Pierce County it was 82%. In all, more than 1.2 million King County voters cast ballots, accounting for about 30% of the votes statewide, according to the Secretary of State's office. In King County, turnout surpassed 85%, beating out the county's 2008 mark. Anyone whose ballots had such problems should have received a letter or phone call from their county election office. Voters whose ballots had signatures challenged have until Nov. While the vast bulk of votes has been counted, some could still be added to the total in coming weeks. "We'd love to see these levels in every single election that we run." "In terms of numbers of people participating we blew it out of the water," Neary said. "We've done a ton here to make it super easy for people to register," Neary said, citing changes such as same-day registration and reminders for people to register any time they interact with major state agencies, such as the Department of Licensing.Įlections officials focused on the raw number of voters who took part in this year's election. Mark Neary, the assistant secretary of state, said Washington may have narrowly missed setting a turnout record in part because so many additional people have registered to vote. Jay Inslee to a third term and handed Democrats wins in all but one statewide race, reelecting Wyman, a Republican, to a third term as secretary of state. Turnout in Washington was driven by the race between Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic president-elect Joe Biden, who easily carried the state with 58% of the vote. "This is why I hate doing predictions," she said. "We're probably going to come up just a tad short," Wyman said.Ĭiting a boom of early voting, Wyman and other elections officials had predicted turnout would surpass the 2008 mark, perhaps even reaching 90%. That year, 84.6% of registered voters cast ballots, compared with 83.4% this year, according to Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman's office. 3 general election in Washington - an all-time high and an increase of about 700,000 from four years ago.īut by a standard measure, turnout may still fall shy of a record set in 2008. ![]() More than 4 million people voted in the Nov. ![]()
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