A bit confusingly worded. You could be right that if it doesn’t meet one of the two criteria it is over (i.e. is no longer under 0.5%)

From WA Secretary of State website:

“A machine recount is required when the difference between the top two candidates is less than 2,000 votes AND ALSO less than 1/2 of 1% of the total number of votes cast for both candidates.”

I believe this is all of the remaining guaranteed votes. So not including the challenged ballets that may be cured.

Also from a pollution and current pedestrian infrastructure viewpoint this is not a great place for housing.

I agree that Seattle desperately needs more housing and this project was supposed to be half affordable housing…but this Sodo carve out was done through a rushed and crappy process. It was widely seen as a favor for Sara Nelson’s friend, Chris Hansen.

Updated number of 6,400 ballot left to count from King County Elections (not including ballots that can be cured) so… looking very unlikely to not go to a recount.

Btw, I’m not very familiar with the recount laws that govern Seattle mayoral races so take this with many grains of salt.

www.sos.wa.gov/recounts-was...

your.kingcounty.gov/elections/20...

Current margins: ~55% Wilson, ~45% Harrell

10,000 votes = 5,500 Wilson, 4,500 Harrell

+1,000 votes for Wilson

There are likely more ballots than this left and Katie Wilson may win them by more so this is probably a conservative estimate

Can Katie Wilson’s lead grow beyond recount territory…

Seems like there are at least 10,000 votes left to count. Given the current margins (and some rough math) it appears unlikely but plausible

I don’t understand why they changed all the signage now when the opening date is “early 2026”. I feel like that is very confusing to those not familiar. They could have easily done something to mark the station signage as “coming soon” like they have stickers on the maps on the actual train.

Unfortunately, Pramila Jayapal endorsed both…

From what I’m reading in the article, the 11% is just from one station (West Oakland) and the article is pointing out this didn’t hold for 2 Mission St stations which had smaller ridership increases than the systemwide increases.