Oh, this is classic. Apparently we have an election coming up this year, but because it’s an off-off year election, most jurisdictions don’t have a whole lot of races that are particularly exciting. On my local ballot here in suburban Puget Sound, in fact, literally the only things on the ballot are three "advisory votes."
What's an "advisory vote"? Well, ten years ago, local anti-tax crusader and general gaping asshole Tim Eyman got a state initiative passed that said that any time the Washington State Legislature institutes, passes, or increases a tax, there must be an "advisory vote" wherein We The People get to weigh in on how pig-biting mad we are about it. Now, these "advisory votes" are COMPLETELY NON-BINDING: they have no impact on the tax changes and cannot stop them from being instituted. Like Radioactive Man's fabled goggles, the "advisory votes" do NOTHING. But they make stupid conservative cranks feeeeeeel good, and, special snowflakes that they are, their feeeeeeelings are all that's really important, right?
I wonder how much of our tax money the county has to spend to print these wholly unnecessary voter guides, and to print and mail these wholly unnecessary ballots that do absolutely nothing?