King County Elections Tuesday morning certified the results of the county’s first all-mail General Election, completely accounting for all ballots received and processed by the department.
Official results are posted online at http://your.kingcounty.gov/elections/200911/results.aspx.
Local election results appear below (City of Kent, Kent School Board, Public Hospital District No. 1, Panther Lake Annexation).
Elections has been working toward achieving six sigma standards since 2005 to benchmark discrepancies between the number of mail ballots received and the number of mail ballots tabulated. In simple terms, six sigma quality performance means no more than 3.4 defects per million opportunities. With only two discrepancies from a total of 1,193,209 ballots received over the past year, this is the first year Elections has met the six sigma standard.
“This really is a testament to how much work has gone into streamlining our procedures and how accountable our process has become over the years,” said Sherril Huff, King County Elections director. “It is such an accomplishment for the department to have met these standards as we prepare to continue to benchmark our successes with these standards in the years to come.”
Final numbers show that 587,198 ballots were returned, for a turnout of 53.55 percent of the 1,096,639 registered voters.
“Turnout was slightly lower than we projected, but right in line with other odd-year General Elections,” said Huff. “It’s nice to see a substantial number of voters turn out, given how important the candidates on the ballot are; like the executive, many city mayors and council members, and others who affect the day-to-day lives of King County voters.”
The electronic canvass of results, broken down by precinct will be available online at http://www.kingcounty.gov/elections/results.aspx by 4:30 p.m. Dec. 1.
King County’s post-election, random audit of 4 percent of accessible voting units (or electronic voting equipment) used at accessible voting centers resulted in a perfect match between the electronic vote totals and the paper audit trail. First introduced in the May 2006 special election, all manual audits of King County’s accessible voting units have been 100 percent accurate to date.
New for all-mail elections, a manual audit of mail ballots is conducted. Twenty batches, representing 4,338 ballots were hand-counted and compared to the machine count. All batch audits conducted have also been 100 percent accurate to date.
For more information on the Nov. 3 General Election, visit www.kingcounty.gov/elections.
FINAL GENERAL ELECTION VOTE RESULTS
CITY OF KENT
Ballots Cast/Registered Voters: 16,879/36,888, 45.76%
Mayor
Suzette Cooke: 10,833, 68.05%
Jim Berrios: 5,042, 31.67%
Council Position No. 2 short and full term
Jamie Danielson: 11,589, 98.57%
Write-in: 168 1.43%
Council Position No. 4
Dana Ralph: 5,607, 40.47%
Dennis R. Higgins: 8,200, 59.19%
Council Position No. 6
Elizabeth Albertson: 7326, 52.02%
Geoff Koepp: 6724, 47.75%
KENT SCHOOL BOARD
Ballots Cast/Registered Voters: 37,577/75,745, 49.61%
Director District No. 4
Bill Boyce: 23,807, 97.04%
Write-in: 727, 2.96%
Director District No. 5
Tim Clark: 17,95, 62.40%
Dale Smith: 10,625, 36.92%
Commissioner Position No. 4
Mike Miller: 23,566, 46.34%
Aaron Heide: 27,080, 53.25%
PANTHER LAKE ANNEXATION AREA
Ballots Cast/Registered Voters: 6,215/12,785, 48.61%
Proposition No. 1 Proposed Annexation To The City Of Kent
YES: 3,330, 56.40%
NO: 2,574, 43.60%
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