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Triple the number of municipal districts ( to match the rise of the populace since 1915) and you'll see a more accurate representation of the residents. -- http://www.proportional-representation.o… .
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When counting election results, we need to remember that you need 50% +1 to win. This means Grant is realistically 7 points behind. Kshama is 5 points ahead, etc. been watching position 8 and in the past 2 days Grant had gone from 10 points behind to 7. That one will be fun to watch. As Herbold and Morales are both realistically 3 points behind (with little seperate on in votes), we can already assume that they won as well.
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@2: Herbold is behind by less than half a percent by traditional counts, so by your count, she's .25% behind? And even if I give you the benefit of the doubt that you were talking about the 4:30 drops despite not posting till 10, you're still wrong, because Herbold was only 1 point behind then by your metric, and Morales 2...
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If you look at the newest results for District 1 that are linked above, it breaks it down as follows:

Lisa Herbold: 10,801 (49.54%)
Shannon Braddock: 10,905 (50.02%)

Or am I missing something?

Looks like they updated the vote counts for this race in the article to show that Herbold is only a little over 100 votes behind, but they did not update the percentages from the previous count.
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I'm not a math wiz, so I so apologies in advance if I've done it wrong, but if there are 2,606 votes left to be counted in D1 and we assume no more write-ins, then it looks like 52.1% of those votes need to go Herbold's way in order for her to win. If that happens, then the final tally would be as follows:

Herbold: 12,159 (0.5001)
Braddock: 12,153 (0.4999)

If it's that close, presumably we're headed for a recount, right?
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Recount threshold depends on the total number of votes cast but it'll probably end up being somewhere in the area of 125 votes apart or less.
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The drops since election night have skewed leftward in every race where there's a left candidate. Thia is true even where the Chamber-Dem is leading.

The trends point to Herbold and Morales winning, Johnson eking out a less than 200 vote win over the prematurely conceding Maddux, and Burgess/Grant closing around 52/48.

Not a good ROI on Chamber-Dems for the developer-conservative IEs.
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@2: Sorry, man, but you're completely mistaken. Percentages are irrelevant at this stage of the game--it's all about the lead. Burgess led by more that 12,000 votes on election night and now is up by 15,862 votes. Which means Grant has lost ground on Burgess through five extra counts, even though the percentage he's losing by has gotten smaller.
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@5: No, District 1 West Seattle has approx 3,300-3,400 uncounted votes that could influence the city council race (some won't vote for either candidate or write in someone else). I don't think there will be a need for a recount in District 1 since Herbold got 53.5% of the second to last batch counted and 57% of the last batch counted. I could be wrong.

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