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Monday, January 18, 2010

Olympia Faster Turnarounds

Posted by Unpaid Intern on Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:08 AM

Posted by news intern Jon Brock

One of the biggest anxiety-inducing events on any election day is the time spent waiting for the results to be released. More often than not, people go to bed that night still not knowing who won. In an effort to expedite the release of election results, state Rep. Scott White (D-46) has proposed a bill that would allow the tabulation of absentee ballots to begin at 8 a.m. the Monday immediately before a primary or general election. This will ensure a significantly larger pool of results is posted early on.

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Oldest First Unregistered On Registered On Add a comment

It's pretty stupid to reply all on an email like this, but it's MORE stupid that their PR person didnt BCC everyone so that this wasnt possible.

Posted by jewritto on January 18, 2010 at 11:17 AM

@1 - You commented on the wrong post.

-Jon Brock

Posted by Unpaid Intern on January 18, 2010 at 11:23 AM

Wow, how asynchronous can you get?

How about counting them the first second that a ballot arrives, two weeks before "election day"?

See, there's these things called computers, and ...

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on January 18, 2010 at 12:15 PM

I think part of the problem might be the chance of interim results being leaked before the due date, #3.

I don't care if they start counting ballots before the due date, I just want them to count ALL of the ballots before they release any results. The state should stop feeding the media's obsession with the unreliable day-to-day numbers.

Posted by w7ngman