As of the close of business, Wednesday 11/4/2009, the day after the election, King County Elections had 572,611 total mail-in ballots on hand. As of the close of business yesterday, Tuesday 11/17/2009, two weeks after the election, KCE had counted 570,280 total mail-in ballots, with an estimated 1,400 [...]
In the name of pummeling a dead ungulate, the latest results from King County Elections show that Mike McGinn is now beating Joe Mallahan by 6,475 votes—a 3.2 percent lead—up from a 5,714 vote lead yesterday.
Fascinating facts: For comparison, Greg Nickels beat Mark Sidran by only 3,158 votes in [...]
It's all over but the concession speech. King County Elections just posted the results of nearly 21,000 more ballots, which put Mike McGinn in the lead by 4,939 votes—more than two percent.
Mayor
Mike McGinn 96514 50.88%
Joe Mallahan 91575 48.28%
Write-in 1605 0.85%
Both McGinn and Joe Mallahan talk to press at 5:00 [...]
King County Elections just dropped another 19,562 Seattle ballots, and these went strongly for Mike McGinn, 53.2% to 46.8% for Joe Mallahan, once again doubling McGinn’s lead to a 2,384 vote margin.
Mike McGinn 85,416 50.31% Joe Mallahan 83,032 48.91%Based on today’s earlier drop, I think it’s fair to say that this is the trend we [...]
About 20,000 ballots just released by King County Elections show that Mike McGinn's advantage in the Seattle mayor's race is growing—slightly. McGinn had a 515-vote lead yesterday; now he leads Joe Mallahan by 1,209 votes. In terms of percentage of the vote, McGinn led by 0.4 percent yesterday, but he [...]
As if there wasn't enough anxiety caused by the daily late-afternoon update in our insanely close mayor's race, King County Elections announced moments ago that officials would release two batches of results today. The first will come at 4:30 p.m. and the second drop will hit between 9:00 p.m. and' [...]
Here's a statement just issued by King County Elections:
Elections’ staff discovered yesterday that the drive up ballot drop box located at Elections headquarters in Tukwila had been vandalized sometime earlier that morning. As a result, the metal cover plate of the “snorkel,” which is that portion of the drop box [...]
King County Elections thought you might be wondering that right about now. According to state law, and via spokesperson Megan Coppersmith:
Machine recounts — A machine recount is required for an office or a state measure if the difference between the top two candidates or between approval and rejection of a [...]
King County Elections just posted the latest batch of election results—about 30,000 new ballots from voters in the Seattle mayor's race—showing that Mike McGinn's lead is holding steady. He was 462 votes in the lead over Joe Mallahan as of this time yesterday; he is leading by 515 votes today. [...]
King County Elections just released their latest results, and of the 27,151 Seattle ballots counted today, Mike McGinn expanded his narrow lead over Joe Mallahan by 54 votes, taking a 515 vote advantage in the mayor’s race, 65,172 to 64,657.
Countywide, KCE dropped a total of 68,507 new ballots today, with Seattle [...]
According to King County Elections:
Director Sherril Huff estimates 129,000 mail ballots are on hand and remain to be counted. This number does not include ballots still to be delivered by the United States Postal Service.
Today 53,412 mail-in ballots were counted, bringing the total number of ballots counted thus far to [...]
Dow Constantine's cell phone rang about 10 minutes after King County Elections posted the most recent batch of election results, which showed his lead growing in the race for King County Executive. Susan Hutchison conceded that she lost. "They had a short cordial conversation," says Constantine's campaign spokesman Sandeep Kaushik. [...]
King County Elections just dropped the results from about 54,000 newly tallied ballots, about half the number we were expecting to be reported today. No word yet on what’s taking so long.
In the King County Executive race, Dow Constantine now leads Susan Hutchison, 57.53% to 42.26%, a full one point [...]
King County Elections has posted the results of about 30,000 additional Seattle ballots. Mike McGinn was leading by 910 votes last night; he's now only 462 votes ahead of Joe Mallahan.
Mayor
Mike McGinn 52,238 49.77%
Joe Mallahan 51,776 49.33%
Write-in 946 0.90%
It bears mentioning that McGinn was in the lead on the primary [...]
The good people of King County elections would still love for you to cast your vote, and have made it pretty easy, and (lucky you) there is no one in line at the "accessible voting" location inside Union Street Station at 401 S. Jackson Street.
I [...]
Posted by news intern Garrett McCulloch
Who's actually sending their ballots in early? Well, it turns out our friends at King County Elections post the number of ballots they receive each day (next posting's tonight at 8:00). As of yesterday, the county had received 173,312 of the 1,084,099 ballots it [...]
