More election results
More election results
A new vote tally has been posted by the Auditor this evening.
Sam Crawford has been reelected. He increased his lead on Ken Mann to 4.4% from 1.2%. Sam has 8,565 votes to Ken’s 7,840, a 725 vo
Sam Crawford has been reelected. He increased his lead on Ken Mann to 4.4% from 1.2%. Sam has 8,565 votes to Ken’s 7,840, a 725 vo
A new vote tally has been posted by the Auditor this evening.
Sam Crawford has been reelected. He increased his lead on Ken Mann to 4.4% from 1.2%. Sam has 8,565 votes to Ken's 7,840, a 725 vote lead. With perhaps less than perhaps 600 ballots in the 2nd Council District left to count, Sam looks like the winner.
Bob Kelly's margin is 54.7% and he is safely elected.
Louise Bjornson's margin is 54.9% and she is safely reelected.
On Tuesday, (Monday is a holiday) the Auditor will run the last of the ballots, about 3,000, and we will then have the unofficial final tally. We can expect over a thousand ballots to be disqualified - maybe two thousand - and so we will only see a bit over 1,000 more ballots actually added into the vote tally.
10:50 am
We expect a new vote tally later this afternoon. There are 13,658 ballots left to count but I would be very surprised if all are counted today. Many still need processing - verifying signatures and duplicating damaged or smeared ballots. Also, we can expect maybe 2,000 or so of those ballots to be declared invalid for any of many reasons - no signature, signature not matching on file sample, voting for two candidates for same office, etc.
Auditor Shirley Forslof issued a statement yesterday to the news media explaining why the vote count is slow. Some of her numbers did not match up with her previous reports and I have asked her for explanations. Hopefully she will respond next week. I made a pdf file of her letter and you can download and read. She issued it at 4:55 pm yesterday, Friday.
Sam Crawford has been reelected. He increased his lead on Ken Mann to 4.4% from 1.2%. Sam has 8,565 votes to Ken's 7,840, a 725 vote lead. With perhaps less than perhaps 600 ballots in the 2nd Council District left to count, Sam looks like the winner.
Bob Kelly's margin is 54.7% and he is safely elected.
Louise Bjornson's margin is 54.9% and she is safely reelected.
On Tuesday, (Monday is a holiday) the Auditor will run the last of the ballots, about 3,000, and we will then have the unofficial final tally. We can expect over a thousand ballots to be disqualified - maybe two thousand - and so we will only see a bit over 1,000 more ballots actually added into the vote tally.
10:50 am
We expect a new vote tally later this afternoon. There are 13,658 ballots left to count but I would be very surprised if all are counted today. Many still need processing - verifying signatures and duplicating damaged or smeared ballots. Also, we can expect maybe 2,000 or so of those ballots to be declared invalid for any of many reasons - no signature, signature not matching on file sample, voting for two candidates for same office, etc.
Auditor Shirley Forslof issued a statement yesterday to the news media explaining why the vote count is slow. Some of her numbers did not match up with her previous reports and I have asked her for explanations. Hopefully she will respond next week. I made a pdf file of her letter and you can download and read. She issued it at 4:55 pm yesterday, Friday.
