Video: What last night's election results mean

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Kshama Sawant celebrates with supporters.

Even as voters elsewhere hesitate about taxes, the election showed Seattle voters willing to tax themselves for a big transportation package.

And yet, state voters appear to have handily passed a new Tim Eyman measure to require a two-thirds majority for legislative approval of tax hikes. What message were voters sending?

We consider that in this election wrap-up of ballot measures and candidates with Crosscut's Knute Berger, Crosscut city reporter David Kroman and Washington Policy Center's Paul Guppy.

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Robert Mak

Robert Mak

Robert Mak is a principal of Seattletopstory.com and a longtime broadcast reporter in Western Washington.