Mason County
County in Washington StateWikipedia
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Oct 19, 2026
Freddy MonadaCORRESPONDENT
The agency says it will also work to expedite ballots from late October through November 3rd.
Freddy MonadaCORRESPONDENT
Meanwhile, Maria Cantwell's office says the broader changes happening at the post office are having a greater impact on rural communities, such as Mason County on the Olympic Peninsula.
Freddy MonadaCORRESPONDENT
The number of late ballots there quadrupled in the August primary compared to 2024.
Freddy MonadaCORRESPONDENT
Steve Dunkel is a Mason County auditor.
Freddy MonadaCORRESPONDENT
He says his office is reaching out to the 258 voters whose ballots were not counted in August.
Steve DunkelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So they know why their ballot was rejected, and they can make whatever changes in their own, uh, planning and preparation to make sure that the ballot gets here on time next time or, and in future elections.
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From Port Angeles, they needed to drive east and then south towards Seattle.
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Investigators later believed that they missed a turn somewhere in the dark, possibly the exit for the Hood Canal Bridge, and ended up heading south through Mason County instead of cutting across the peninsula on the more direct route.
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November on the Olympic Peninsula means rain, fog, and dark country roads.
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Two young Canadians who had never made the drive before, navigating by paper maps in an unfamiliar state, could easily miss a turnoff.
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Around eight PM, they were spotted buying snacks at the Hoodsport Grocery, a small store in Mason County along the western shore of Hood Canal.
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About ninety minutes later, around nine twenty-nine PM, a clerk at Ben's Deli in the small town of Allyn, about thirty miles further south, remembered them coming in.
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That sighting at Ben's Deli in Allyn, Washington, was the last confirmed time anyone saw Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook alive together.
David StevensSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm Judge David Stevens.
David StevensSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm a Mason County Superior Court judge.
David StevensSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm running for Washington State Supreme Court, position three.
David StevensSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The reason I'm running is I'm concerned about the lack of diversity on the Supreme Court.
Amy RadelCORRESPONDENT
She says she appreciates the letters the court has released, um, in the last few years pledging to undo the racist outcomes of past decisions.
Amy RadelCORRESPONDENT
And then she faces David Stevens from Mason County, who has said how much he admires the most conservative justices on the US Supreme Court, people like Clarence Thomas, and David Stevens disagrees with the court's Blake decision from a few years ago, which struck down our state's felony drug possession law.
Amy RadelCORRESPONDENT
He says it had terrible consequences.
Amy RadelCORRESPONDENT
And then that third race is the court's chief justice, Deborah Stevens.
Brandi KruseHOST
So today we're talking about state Supreme Court justice position three.
Brandi KruseHOST
The candidates are current King County Superior Court Judge Jamie Hawk and current Mason County Superior Court Judge David Stevens.
Brandi KruseHOST
I am supporting David Stevens in this race.
Brandi KruseHOST
One of the many reasons is I hated the commercials for Jamie Hawk where you had the governor and Congresswoman Jayapal.
David KromanHOST
I understand that hasn't, hasn't happened for a while, that we have two open seats on the ballot.
David KromanHOST
Um, one of those is Position 3, which is King County Superior Court Judge Jamie Hawk versus David Stevens, a, a Mason County Superior Court judge.
David KromanHOST
What can you tell us about that race?
Amy RadilGUEST
Yeah, they're both Superior Court judges, um, and I'd say that's where the similarities end [laughs] in their orientation.
Austin JenkinsHOST
Position 1 features appointed Justice Colleen Melody and Attorney Scott Edwards.
Austin JenkinsHOST
Position 3 is an open seat featuring two Superior Court judges, David Stevens of Mason County and Jamie Hock of King County.
Austin JenkinsHOST
Position 4 is also an open seat featuring Court of Appeals Judge Ian Burke and King County Superior Court Judge Sean O'Donnell.
Austin JenkinsHOST
And position five features appointed Justice Theo Angelus and former Federal Way Municipal Court Judge Dave Larson, who has run before.
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Andrew VilleneuveGUEST
I think his problem may have been that that endorsement, that set of endorsements is more powerful in the Seattle media market only, and this is a statewide environment.
Andrew VilleneuveGUEST
So Jamie Hawk and David Stevens are both Superior Court judges, and they're both running from the Western Washington side, but they come from completely different places.
Andrew VilleneuveGUEST
Stevens is from Mason County.
Andrew VilleneuveGUEST
Hawk is from King County.