{"id":62346,"date":"2023-04-05T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/home2\/king-county-elections-offers-virtual-workshops-for-candidates\/"},"modified":"2023-04-05T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T00:39:00","slug":"king-county-elections-offers-virtual-workshops-for-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/northwest\/king-county-elections-offers-virtual-workshops-for-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"King County Elections offers virtual workshops for candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about running for office?<\/p>\n<p>King County Elections will host three virtual workshops for candidates about how to run for office.<\/p>\n<p>The sessions are Tuesday, April 11, 6 to 8 p.m.; Saturday, April 15, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; and Monday, April 24, 3 to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Information covered will include how to file for office, key deadlines, submitting the local voters&rsquo; pamphlet statement, voter lists and much more. The state Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) will go over basic campaign disclosure requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Candidate filing week, for the Aug. 1 primary and Nov. 7 general election, is from May 15-19, with the deadline to withdraw the following Monday, May 22. With over 320 offices subject to the election, King County Elections anticipates 650-700 candidates will file to run in 2023. Candidates are encouraged to file online.<\/p>\n<p>To register for the workshops, <a href=\"https:\/\/kingcounty.gov\/depts\/elections\/for-candidates.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"link\" rel=\"noopener\">go online to the King County Elections website<\/a> and search for workshops under the Running for Office section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interested in running for office? Workshops have the details <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":62347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-62346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home2","category-northwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62346"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=62346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}