OLYMPIA — Most North Olympic Peninsula voters happily will finish playing their parts in the state’s first Top 2 primary election today.

Not only voters are pleased with their roles in the electoral drama. County auditors around the state are tickled with the new system, and so is Sam Reed.

Reed is Washington’s secretary of state, author of the Top 2 primary scheme in 2001 and its director through legal obstacles for the next seven years.

He says the Top 2 primary has received rave reviews.

“It’s been going very well because we had the blanket primary from 1935 to 2003,” he told the Peninsula Daily News last week, “so for the counties, it’s a piece of cake to put it on.”