Here’s where the four Seattle City Hall election races (Mayor, City Attorney, and two City Council positions) stand as King County Elections resumes counting ballots tomorrow morning.
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Day 4 election update (UPDATED)
With a new drop of ballot counts on Friday afternoon, six of the seven races are decided, and one has flipped.
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Day 3 election results update
With 67.1% of the total ballots counted, the picture is becoming very clear as to who will be on the City Council come January. And in one race, the results just changed substantially.
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Day 2 election results
King County Elections released an update to the elections tally late this afternoon. But it’s clear that most of their day-2 efforts have been on sorting and verifying ballots, rather than counting them: they logged an additional 60,000 Seattle votes received since 6pm last night, but only counted about 13,000 of them. Not surprisingly, this afternoon’s City Council race results are not terribly different than last night’s. But with another 87,500 ballots ready to count and more trickling in through the mail, we’re likely to see much more substantial changes over the next two days. Most interesting so far has …
Continue readingPrimary election early results
The initial ballot counts are in for the City Council primary election, and the results point to some surprisingly clear signs as to who will advance to the November general election. Here is the link to King County’s election results, which were posted at 8:15 tonight and will be updated at 4:00pm every day until the final results are certified on August 20. City-wide, 138,171 ballots had been returned as of 6:00pm this evening (two hours before the deadline), and 110,961 (80.3%) were tabulated in tonight’s results — leaving 27,210 received but uncounted and an unknown number between those dropped …
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