Every day, at the end of the day, the Washington Secretary of State updates the vote count from the August 7 primary. Here is a link to the returns. As of close of business on Thursday, August 16, the Libertarian, Brian Luke, is still in second place. He is ahead of Gary Franco, an independent, by 69 votes.
There are 980 write-in ballots in Snohomish County, which has about half the total votes, so they will at least be looked at.
I looked at King County, which does not include any of the district, but did post daily totals of ballots counted for US Senate – a statewide office.
Tu 7: 316K
W 8: 362K (46K)
Th 9: 445K (83K)
Fr 10: 523K (79K)
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Mo 13: 540K (17K)
Tu 14: 544K (4K)
We 15: 545K (1K)
Washington counts ballots postmarked by election day, so they are probably counting stragglers. Some of the smaller counties are not expected to make another report until next week. Larger counties may have enough ballots to keep some employees fully utilized.
ALL paper mail ballots — received by election DAY.
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NO vote counting for days/weeks
— each vote counting machine can process thousands of paper ballots per hour.
See Oregon.
Can vote counting machines be useful doing something else for about 360 of 365/366 days per year ???
— doing school tests, etc. ???
Scanner tech since 1940s/1950s ???
The last update on this on BAN was about a week ago, and it showed the Libertarian in second place, and 74 votes ahead of third place. So, his lead for second has narrowed a bit. I suspect that there aren’t very many remaining votes to be counted, so a 69 vote lead may prove to be durable.
Forget about all candidates for the November ballot.
They aren’t going to suddenly switch gears and bring concrete actions for the team.
Candidates who cannot partake in pure proportional representation for whatever reason prove to be a liability and need to be cut free.
Focus our effort to build the team with proven team players who have demonstrated the interest in collaboration under pure proportional representation:
http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc.html
The One Green USA team.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering_in_the_United_States
Shocking – a mention of PR at the bottom.
@JigglyPuff
Are you seriously telling people not to vote at all: “Forget about all candidates for the November ballot.” just because none of your friends are involved?
It won’t happen, but it would be cool if the Libertarian AND the independent managed to pass the leader. What a blow that would be to eh Republicrat duopoly.
BL, what candidates are good, that you are supporting, and are they working on pure proportional representation?