With only a smattering of ballots left to count statewide, it is interesting to note that Seattle voters have thus far turned out a 57.56% rate, four and a half points higher than the county as a whole, and nearly seven points higher than the state average.
To put that in [...]
In response to Larry Spencer's letter in Wednesday's Coeur d'Alene Press ("Election: Right to question results"), former City Council candidate Dan Gookin said that the military ballots went out early. Quoth: "I remember it because my campaign was informed that the ballots were ready about a week early." There's been' [...]
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 [...]
Many more ballots were cast that appear dubious at best, certainly more than enough to challenge two races, possibly enough to have changed the outcomes of all three council races. If you are concerned about the legitimacy of this election, now is the time to get involved. In [...]
In the "Gift That Keeps Giving" Department, Mary Souza @ OpenCDA.com now is insisting that she didn't take a swipe at Dan of the County re: the issue of military ballots. Quoth Proud Mary: "So now, I’m told, the Spokane gossip blog is going on and on about our questions'" [...]
On an OpenCDA.com comments thread Nov. 13, Dan of the County took issue with this statement by Mary Souza: “Then there are the military Absentee ballots that weren’t sent out in enough time. They’re supposed to have 6 weeks but only had about 3. All kinds of issues…”
Our military ballots [...]
A modest proposal: Buy more machines to count the mail-in ballots, hire more elections office workers to feed the machines, and get rid of this annoying phenomenon by which we are all sitting around well after election day waiting for ballots that arrived well before election day to be counted. [...]
Goldy is slapping around the Seattle Times and SeattlePI columnist Joel Connelly for their calls—made here and here—to change the deadline for mail-in ballots. Instead of being postmarked by election day, the Seattle Times and Connelly want ballots received by election day.
Gee, I wonder why the [...]
Forgive me for obsessing on the topic, but when our foils at the Seattle Times editorial board and our friend Joel Connelly at the Seattle P-I are both editorializing in favor of changing the voting deadline from postmarked on election day to received by election day, you just know [...]
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 dropped an additional 20,953 Seattle ballots this afternoon, with Mike McGinn expanding his lead to a 4,939 margin in what until recently was considered a closely contested mayors race.
Mike McGinn 96,514 50.88% Joe Mallahan 91,575 48.28%McGinn won 56.5% of this batch of ballots, most of which I presume to have been received after [...]
I’ve already spent some time joyfully fisking the Seattle Times’ “absurd” proposal to change the deadline on mail-in ballots from the current postmarked on election day, to the more restrictive received by election day, so there’s no need to do a line-by-line takedown of Joel Connelly’s own contribution [...]
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 [...]
By comparing voter rolls to records of ballots received by the county, Mike McGinn's mayoral campaign found that uncounted votes include far more of the youngest demographic, which are McGinn's voters, than counted votes. In contrast, uncounted votes include about 50 percent fewer voters over 65 years old than the [...]
Mike McGinn padded his margin by an additional 694 votes this afternoon, more than doubling his narrow lead over Joe Mallahan to 1209 votes:
Mike McGinn 75,657 49.99% Joe Mallahan 74,448 49.19%This represents McGinn’s largest numerical lead thus far, and while not conclusive, bodes well for those anticipating a trend toward McGinn amongst late voters.
In this [...]
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 [...]
The morning of November 4, with a narrow 910-vote lead in the race and more than 100,000 ballots outstanding, Mike McGinn had breakfast with campaign volunteers in the back room at Cafe Presse on Capitol Hill. Then he went downtown to the Mercury Group on Second [...]
Assume n=129,000 ballots are drawn distributed with p=0.500571 in McGinn's favor. The mean outcome is that 64,597 (np) of those votes go to McGinn, with a standard deviation of 180 votes (sqrt n p (1-p)). To loose his current 462 vote lead, McGinn would have to get [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
