Friday the Skagit County elections office mails ballots to registered voters. The two statewide contested seats are U.S. Senate and Washington secretary of state. Supreme Court Justices Barbara Madsen, G. Helen Whitener and Mary Yu are running unopposed.

In our region, U.S. Congressional District 2 and the two state representative positions will be decided.

For legislative district 10, first term Position 1 State Rep Greg Gilday (R, Camano Island) has to overcome Democratic challenger Clyde Shavers, a Navy veteran from Oak Harbor who won the primary by 2,000 votes.

Position 2 challenger,...