Annexation vote remains under 60% threshold, sees slight uptick
UPDATED Nov 24 @10:45AM
Today, another 15 votes were counted in the annexation race and the YES votes increased by 0.02%, however, annexation still remains below the 60% threshold needed for approval. With 10,813 votes counted, the latest tally has the YES vote at 59.94% with 6291 YES votes and 4205 NO votes which is 40.06%. The measure has lost ground from its initial election night preliminary result of 62.06% in favor of annexation.
King County releases the latest results nightly at 4:30PM.
Posted by Rob Butcher on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 10:45 am
Filed under Elections, Headlines · Tagged with Annexation
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The yes/no votes total 10,355, 309 fewer than the 10,664 ballots cast. Are these 309 ballots not yet counted, or are they counted ballots on which no annexation vote was cast?
Note that if only 3 voters had voted yes rather than no, there would be 60% approval at this point.
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The difference between the 10664 ballots counted and the 10335 total of the Yes and No votes represents ballots that had neither Yes nor No marked.
If you look at the Mail Ballot Return Statistics at http://your.kingcounty.gov/elections/abstats/, you’ll see that 10756 ballots have made their way through signature verification already, so there are 92 ballots remaining to be counted, which could happen any time (although some of them might be in the queue for duplication if they were damaged or mismarked in some way). That 10756 total does not include ballots that have been challenged due to missing or mismatched signatures, and there are at least 145 of those; they could be “cured” at any time if the voters return the signed paperwork that has already been sent to them by the county. And it’s also possible that ballots are still in transit from overseas or military voters — postmarked by election day, but just taking a long time in the mail. So, we won’t know the final result until certification day (November 24)!
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Woo Hoo!! It’s under 60%!! Let’s hope it stays this way!
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