Election Results

No, no heart attack. If anything, I'm feeling much more light-hearted than I have in months. Here's the Snohomish County Election Results for the day after the election, in particular the races I was interested in:

MARYSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT #25
  Registered Voters - 32,892
  Precincts Counted - 72 - 100.00%
  Ballots Counted - 11,055 - 33.61% - That's a one-third turnout without all the absentees counted

MARYSVILLE SD #25 - DIRECTOR - DIST 2
  Carol Jason - 6,942 - 66.61%
  Mark W. Johnson - 3,438 - 32.99%
  Write-In - 42 - 0.40%
Total - 10,422 - 100.00%

MARYSVILLE SD #25 - DIRECTOR - DIST 3
  Cary Peterson - 3,069 - 29.62%
  Vicki Gates - 6,200 - 59.83%
  Lisa Ann Griffith - 1,054 - 10.17%
  Write-In - 40 - 0.39%
Total - 10,363 - 100.00%

MARYSVILLE SD #25 - DIRECTOR - DIST 5
  A. Michael Kundu - 6,254 - 60.24%
  Erik M. Olson - 4,083 - 39.33%
  Write-In - 45 - 0.43%
Total - 10,382 - 100.00%

Jason, Gates, and Kundu were the three who we have pinned our hopes on for the moment. As you can see, all three are winning handily at this point. Absentee ballots normally do not change the results unless the races are really close, and these aren't terribly close. There are three more reporting days (Friday, then Thursday after, then November 18th), and the results are due to be ratified on November 19th. The new board will be seated on the first scheduled school board meeting after the ratification, which should be December 1st. At that point, the long hard slog to fix the problems in the district begins.

In other local races, the Bothell City Council has apparently been wiped out completely, which wasn't a surprise. After reading up on the issues, the main issue seemed to be that the current council is ineffective, so we might as well try some new blood. Several other folks around town that I talked to got the same impression, and it looks like that was the rule of the day. Voter turnout across the state was fairly low, in the 40% range. Even for an off-year, that's pretty pathetic. I'm curious what the final turnout in the MSD race will be, once all the absentees are counted.

Oh well. At least I voted, and the race I watched most closely seems to be going in the right direction.