Last year, I was minding my own business, smug and confident because I’d bucked demographic trends and voted weeks before the election. Then, I got a text. King County Elections. An issue? With my ballot? It hadn’t been counted. I’d forgotten to sign the outside of my ballot.

Fuck!

The good news is I wasn’t the first illiterate dumbass to bypass simple instructions. And I am far from the last. This happens all the time (and have you seen those reading scores?), including this cycle.

As of blog time, King County Elections has challenged 4,119 ballots countywide because of signature-related issues including not signing the ballot at all or the signature not matching the one King County Elections has on file. In Seattle, 1,794 ballots aren’t being counted yet for similar issues. That’s onl

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