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EMS vote: 322 ballots to be counted
According to Julie Murphy at the County elections office, a total of 1,999 Ocean Shores ballots have been received, this week. Of these, 1,677 votes were counted on Tuesday, with 860 of them (51.58%) voting to approve the property tax increase for EMS, and the other 817 voting to reject the request.
That leaves 322 ballots to be counted in the next tally, to be released Friday at 5 p.m. So it looks like 1,000 is the magic number for a tentative win, although there will be one more tally before the May 12 “certification.”
For tentative approval, there would have to be 140 more “approve” votes, or 43% of the 322 to be counted.
For tentative rejection, there would have to be 183 more “reject” votes, or 57% of those 322 to be counted.
A total of 3,182 ballots were mailed to Ocean Shores voters; the 1,999 responses thus far are 63% of the total mailed.
Lorraine: there were about 2,200 total votes in November (70 percent “reject,” 30 percent “approve”), so the response is down about 10 percent.
Could you remind us of the vote count in the November election please Tom? I know it was overwhelmingly rejected, but I wondered what percentage of the ballots were actually sent in, and I can’t remember.