At stake in 2021 Seattle elections: policing, homelessness and COVID

That will change today, as voters living in a new world will have the chance to choose new leadership. They will do so, polls suggest, with a shared frustration over homelessness, public safety and housing affordability, but with different visions for the best path forward.

“I think in a lot of ways it’s a generational referendum,” said Shaun Scott, field coordinator for Seattle City Council candidate Nikkita Oliver.

Seattle voters will select among eight people in four races to run the city’s government — Teresa Mosqueda and Kenneth Wilson for the eighth seat on the Seattle City Council; Nikkita Oliver and Sara Nelson for the ninth; Ann Davison and Nicole

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