Mallahan Narrows the Gap

By Erica C. Barnett, Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 4:31 PM
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The latest results from King County are in, and Joe Mallahan has narrowed the gap in the Seattle mayor’s race from 910 votes to 462. The percentage gap is now McGinn 49.77 to Mallahan 49.33. Mallahan won this batch, 50.92 to 48.67 percent, gaining 448 net votes on McGinn.

0 Responses to Mallahan Narrows the Gap

  1. Jason says:
    November 4, 2009 at 4:33 PM

    Anyone know if these results now include all the ballots from the drop boxes?

  2. Gidge says:
    November 4, 2009 at 4:37 PM

    Looks like they only added approx 20,000 Seattle votes with this drop.

  3. John says:
    November 4, 2009 at 4:40 PM

    According to the Secretary of State, after today’s vote results, King County has 129,000 ballots on hand that have not been counted, plus whatever is still in the mail.

  4. Purple says:
    November 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM

    Why was King County unable to count more than 60,000 ballots today?

  5. Timothy says:
    November 4, 2009 at 4:46 PM

    Hey Gomez…how’s the wisdom of that micro-economics class working out?

  6. Left bottom corner of the ballot- NO! says:
    November 4, 2009 at 4:49 PM

    Knowing King County still has so many ballots on hand makes me hopeful about holding on to an Approve 71 victory

  7. John says:
    November 4, 2009 at 4:50 PM

    60,000 ballots in 8 hours = 2 per second.

    According to this pdf their machines read 300 ballots per hour each. So that would look like people tending to and feeding 25 machines. (in an 8 hour day, maybe they’re working 10 or 12)

    Not too bad in my estimation.

  8. actually says:
    November 4, 2009 at 4:52 PM

    they should stay up all night and get it done. twenty people at double time is worth it.

    i imagine there are plenty of people who would do this at ten an hour, gladly.

    i thought the delay is waiting on the mails.

  9. Let's Go Joe says:
    November 4, 2009 at 5:00 PM

    Cut McGinns lead by half… it’s trending Joe’s way!! Keep it up!

  10. Good Grief says:
    November 4, 2009 at 5:04 PM

    The big delay is waiting on the mail, but I would imagine that the county hasfigured that there will be some coming in late today/tomorrow, so they aren’t in that big of a hurry to deal with what they already have on hand.

    The real issue with the slowness of results is the rule that ballots only need be postmarked by election day (not received, which is how it is in Oregon). The fact that it is possible to still vote (and campaign for votes) after the first batch of results are published shows how screwy this system is under that rule.

  11. Gomez says:
    November 4, 2009 at 5:05 PM

    Hey, Timothy, here’s a math problem:

    If 100 volunteers solicit 200 additional ballots to load into 5 ballot boxes that are driven 15 miles south to a centralized post office, how many inane troll comments can you manage to post before King County finishes counting every ballot?

    Show your work, genius.

  12. Timothy says:
    November 4, 2009 at 5:14 PM

    Hey Gomez…just to be clear, you’re the inane troll in this example, right? ;-)

  13. Gomez says:
    November 4, 2009 at 6:22 PM

    Yuk yuk yuk where are my obscene GIFs

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