Nov. 16, 2006 6:30 p.m.
2006/11/16 下午六點正
Election results updated, Board unanimously accepts all bags of absentee ballots from the polls
2006/11/16: 最新選舉結果報導
The King County Elections tabulation team counted 10,590 additional absentee ballots today, which represents all ballots on hand ready to be tabulated.
Election results summary:
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10,590 absentee ballots tabulated today
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403,410 absentee ballots tabulated to date
- 179,586 poll ballots tabulated to date (does not include provisional ballots)
Staff continue to verify the registrations of 13,000 provisional ballots cast on election day in King County and other counties in Washington. These ballots will be duplicated on to the correct ballot style and added to vote totals starting next week.
The Canvassing Board met again this afternoon and unanimously accepted all bundles of absentee ballots returned to the polls and confirmed the bags were within the chain of custody of election workers and that the standard two-person integrity model was maintained until the ballots were secured at election headquarters that night.
Canvassing Board Members County Councilmember Julia Patterson, Prosecuting Attorney's Office Chief of Staff Dan Satterberg, and Interim Director of Records and Elections and Licensing Services Division Jim Buck, unanimously agreed on the following:
1 – Regarding the remaining 27 blue bags of absentee ballots: Phone contact and testimony from most poll workers confirmed the chain of custody. The Board unanimously accepted the remaining 26 bags as well as one bag returned by a poll worker the day after the election. Staff will ask the poll worker to document the condition of the bag.
2 – Regarding flood ballots: the Board accepted several flood ballots into the verification process because the Board determined they were voted in timely manner and came from voters impacted by flooding on election day.
**Additional Canvassing Board meetings to be scheduled** - The Board will schedule two additional meetings to be held prior to certification on Nov. 28. Those times will be posted tomorrow or Saturday at http://your.kingcounty.gov/elections/200611/canvassboard.asp
Daily results are posted Monday through Saturday by 6 p.m. Signature verification and staging of ballots in preparation for tabulation will resume tomorrow morning. A full results posting schedule can be found at http://your.kingcounty.gov/elections/200611/resultsSchedule.asp
The media room established by King County Elections to assist reporters and other media is closed and will reopen Thursday at 8:30 a.m.
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