With its latest official tally Friday showing a 249-vote lead for “no,” King County Elections says it is receiving “cure forms” for challenged ballots at a rate of around 20 to 60 per day.
As of Monday morning, the county says there are 525 challenged ballots remaining. Ballot return totals can be viewed here. That dashboard is updated at least twice a day, according to KCE. Cured ballots are then included in the ongoing daily updates.
Officials say voters have until December 16th to address issues with their ballots. King County Elections workers are contacting voters with challenged ballots by phone and email but can also check the status of your ballot here.
KCE plans to update the vote count daily around 4 PM up until the results are certified on Friday.
Even with Friday’s certification, there is a possibility we still won’t have a definitive answer.
Elections officials say a recount can be requested under state law until 4:30 PM two business days after certification. Set an alarm for the afternoon of December 21st if you’re ready to finally see the end of the recall debate.
CHS, meanwhile, reported on plans for a December 19th “Victory Party” with the Kshama Solidarity campaign after the Recall Sawant entered the weekend admitting the recall “will likely fall short.”
UPDATE 5:10 PM: The “no” vote now has a 309-vote lead after Monday’s update.
450 ballots remained challenged.
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Not hard to imagine deep pockets constructing legal challenges ad infinitum, as is the current fashion. Capitalists can’t stand to be seen as vulnerable.
The global capitalist cabal has their eyes closely on this contest. Oh wait, thats the Socialist Alternative Tentacles all over D3. Theres always room for Jello.
With today’s count listed on King County elections now, Sawant has expanded her lead to 309 votes (out of 40,871 votes counted as valid so far).
So she barely avoided recall is her own (highly democratic/left leaning) district? Not exactly a mandate there.
What’s next? Sawant and her supporters claiming some sort of triumphant victory as if half of her district didn’t want her out of office. Not exactly a resounding endorsement of her continued ‘service’ to the district.
The recall side would LOVE to be up by 300 votes now. 3 votes, even. And what a spectacular mandate that would be, your side would say! LOL
Well the Bridger crew were in fact partially successful in their “Pick your Electorate” scheme. It looks like by the time the clock expires on Friday, Turn-out will be about 2% lower than it was in the November election.
To be successful in the suppression scheme, they probably needed the December special election to be about 10% lower than November.
Any other politician, and the “special election” tactic probably would have worked. And in the long run, the anti-Sawant folks probably benefitted by keeping the recall off the November ballot, because the “Socialist Alternative” ground game didn’t show up until the recall. I have to think that NTK, Nikita and Lorena would have all benefited from what was probably a significant number of “infrequent voters” that SA turns out… Had their GOTV effort been applied to Nov.