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November 4, 2009 at 11:52 AM

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King County: up to 115,000 more votes to be counted today

Posted by Jim Brunner

King County Elections spokesperson Megan Coppersmith says the county's 4:30 p.m. vote update this afternoon will include between 85,000 and 115,000 more ballots.

The new totals will be crucial to Seattle's tight mayoral race, with rivals Mike McGinn and Joe Mallahan separated by a mere 910 votes.

Coppersmith said she's not sure how many of the votes counted today will be from Seattle.

But so far, Seattle has accounted for 35 percent of the votes cast in the county. So if there are 115,000 ballots counted today, 40,000 or so could be from the city.

Not sure that will be enough to decide the mayor's race, but if McGinn widens his lead, it could give us a pretty good idea.

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King County not delaying votes. Most people only dropped or mailed their ballots off yesterday and it would have been physically impossible to...  Posted on November 4, 2009 at 1:35 PM by Capesta. Jump to comment
Wow, Bill... you don't know who is going to win, but you're sure that whoever it is must have cheated? It must suck to live in your...  Posted on November 4, 2009 at 12:55 PM by SW in Lake Forest Park. Jump to comment
@BillBillson - Every ballot that came in yesterday has to be recorded (that the voter voted) and the signature verified, then removed from the...  Posted on November 4, 2009 at 2:01 PM by znachki. Jump to comment
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