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One week to vote certification: ballot counting all but over

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Nov 16 update

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With one week to go to the certification of the Nov. 3 election, ballot counting is all but over in the Sammamish City Council races.

Only 10 votes were added to the count from Friday to Monday. Christie Malchow, Ramiro Valderrama and Tom Hornish added two, three and four votes respectively to their total gap over their opponents, Mark Cross, Hank Klein and Tom Vance. Vance and Cross have yet to concede to Hornish and Malchow.

Only two more ballots were received from Sammamish Monday, the first since last Thursday. There are about 200 ballots still to be counted, but not all voters have been voting in the City Council races.

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Visual of Sammamish City Council election results

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Sammamish Comment has created a visual of the day-by-day election tally for the Sammamish City Council.

As votes were counted, the spread increased imperceptibly but steadily between Christie Malchow and Mark Cross and between Tom Hornish and Tom Vance. Vance’s “faint hope” for a win and his prediction to the Sammamish Review that the final outcome will be “much closer” than last Monday simply don’t hold up. Hornish’s lead continues to build.

The Comment reported on election night that historically the final outcome is within 1%-2% of election night. This pattern continues. All results fall within this band so far, closer to the 1% than to the 2%. Click on the following images isolate from text and then again to enlarge.

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Nov. 10 Sammamish City Council election results

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Nov 10 results

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Vote counting for the Sammamish City Council is all but over. There are very few new ballots from Sammamish coming into Elections now. Only three more ballots were accounted for from Sammamish from Sunday night to Monday night, according to County data. There were some 200 ballots that hadn’t been counted during the same period, however. On Monday, a total of 339 new votes were counted, meaning an additional 100+ came in on Monday for counting.

As has been the case since the election, Christie Malchow, Ramiro Valderrama and Tom Hornish padded their vote totals over their opponents.

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Nov. 9 Sammamish City Council election update

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Nov 9 results

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There is little change in the trend of vote results for the Sammamish City Council. The trend continues upward for Christie Malchow, Ramiro Valderrama and Tom Hornish.

The latest results, posted around 7pm Nov. 9, continue to show their vote counts increasing over Mark Cross, Hank Klein and Tom Vance.

Through Nov. 8,  10,399 ballots from Sammamish have been returned. Through Nov. 9, 8,600 votes have been counted in the “down ballot” City Council races, a drop-off of 17% to the Position 2 race and more to the further down-ballot Positions 4 and 6.

Only 120-124 additional City Council race votes were counted today. Malchow, Valderrama and Hornish padded their leads by about 20 votes each.

What’s next for Sammamish: balance of 2015 and in 2016

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Although votes are still being counted and the election results won’t be certified until Nov. 24, Christie Malchow and Tom Hornish have been elected to the Sammamish City Council; their Election Night margins were too great for Mark Cross and Tom Vance to overcome. Their vote tallies have only increased each day additional votes have been tabulated.

So the questions become, What’s next? What’s next for the balance of 2015 in what is now a lame duck period of the City Council, and What’s next in 2016?

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