The younger, more progressive votes come in late. Longstanding trends tell us that the second ballot drop doesn’t mean shit, but the third and fourth drops are a tell all in a tight race.

And … Fuck! King County Elections only counted 30,000 more ballots in Seattle. What’s normally a revealing ballot drop isn’t as decisive (fewer votes counted=less revealing) and it’s also not clear when this batch of votes came in and where they came from. This might drag into next week.

AND OUR NEXT MAYOR IS?

Ha! Good one. We don’t know yet.

Wilson shrank the gap between her and Harrell by almost 2.5 points in this ballot drop. She now has 46.93 percent of the vote to Bruce Harrell’s 52.64 percent. But the overall total isn’t going to tell you as much as the percentage of the vote with each drop.

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