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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Election Peaslee Wins, Stokes Hangs On

Posted by Goldy on Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 4:25 PM

King County just dropped another batch of ballots, and there's little change in the established trends. Sharon Peaslee is now leading incumbent Peter Maier by 742 votes in Seattle School Board District No. 1, 71,373 to 70631. That's now a 0.52 percent lead, outside the recount margin, and growing.

As I said yesterday, Peaslee wins.

In the race for Bellevue City Council Position No. 1, Kemper Freeman flunky Aaron Laing has shaved progressive activist John Stokes lead to a nail-biting 64 votes, 14,490 to 14,426. But with only about a thousand ballots left to count, and Laing only gaining an advantage of 15 votes over the previous 1,520, the trends strongly suggest that Laing's comeback will fall too little, too late. That said, this election is almost definitely headed into an automatic recount, and quite likely a hand recount at that.

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"As I said yesterday, Peaslee wins." Does the story always have to be about you?

Posted by Edmund Burke on November 16, 2011 at 4:31 PM

Glad to see they finally counted my ballot as being received.

Mailed just after 1 pm on Election Day at the University District post office.

Anything else change?

Posted by Will in Seattle

on November 16, 2011 at 4:44 PM

"In which Goldy accurately predicted the outcome?"

Posted by Teslick on November 16, 2011 at 5:54 PM

@1: Yes.

Posted by Goldy on November 16, 2011 at 8:05 PM

But this can't BE - the Times said that Maier "handily won" reelection. Sorry, Goldy, but you're getting your reality in my la la la can't hear you soup.

Posted by Catherwood on November 17, 2011 at 8:19 AM