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Kim van Ekstrom

  • News

    October 27, 2010

    Voter-Guide-Overload Solution: Another Voter Guide

    In addition to the state pamphlet, you now get a King County one too.

  • News

    October 20, 2010

    Ballot Blunderers

    Thousands of King County ballots went uncounted in the primary. Learn from these voters' mistakes.

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    How to Return Your King County Ballot: By Midnight, Signed. And Try to Have a Pulse!

    ​Planning to fill out that Nov. 2 election ballot you just received in the mail? Two things: Sign it, and mail back the envelope on time. Make that three: Don't forget to put the ballot in the envelope before you send it. Those were among the errors made by almost 15,000 King County voters in ... More >>

  • News

    August 26, 2009

    Post-Race Beers

    ​Planning to fill out that Nov. 2 election ballot you just received in the mail? Two things: Sign it, and mail back the envelope on time. Make that three: Don't forget to put the ballot in the envelope before you send it. Those were among the errors made by almost 15,000 King County voters in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    Can You Win As a Write-In?

    That's spelled M-U-R-R-A-Y.​Joe McGee returned to his office today from a three-week trip to hear some surprising news: there was talk among the staff about a possible write-in campaign for State Senator Ed Murray. What's odd about that is that Joe McGee is Executive Director of the Internatio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    Mallahan Pulls Ahead in the Countdown to the Mayoral Recount

    Mallahan takes the lead, more counting to come.​Mallahan is up with a total of 81,725 votes counted thus far in Seattle. King County elections is predicting 35 percent turnout for Seattle, which would mean an additional 51,000 votes have yet to be counted. Here's where the three front-runners ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    Tricks of the Ballot Trade, And How To Check On Yours

    ​I've had a couple of people ask me over the last few days if their vote will still count even though they forgot to stick it in the security envelope before putting it in the big envelope and mailing it off to King County Elections. The answer, according to Elections spokesperson Kim van Ekst ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    The Primary: What Will We Know Tonight?

    ​According to King County Elections spokesperson Kim van Ekstrom, her department expects to have about 180,000 ballots counted by 8 p.m. tonight. At 8:15 Elections will post the results thus far to their Web site. Since we no longer have things like exit polling, what with this all mail-in thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    Daily Reminder, Don't Forget to Mail Your Ballot

    ​Votes are trickling in slower than expected in our first all mail-in primary. King County Elections originally predicted 35 percent turnout in Seattle and 33 percent countywide. Politics junkies can actually track the daily count for ballots returned. As of last night, 11.13 percent of Seattl ... More >>

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