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PORT ORCHARD, Wash. — The challenge by a group of voters to remove former President Donald Trump from the Washington presidential primary ballot will shift this week to an Olympia courtroom after a Kitsap County judge on Tuesday said the issue should be decided where the state capitol is located. The group of eight voters had filed the challenge to Trump’s eligibility in both Kitsap County — where they all live — and Thurston County. Given Thurston County’s “unique position as the seat of our state government,” Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Bassett said from the bench, “I do not believe Kitsap …

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