According to the county elections site, the three North Beach School District levy proposals all were passing, in the 53-56% range.

According to the county, 3,307 ballots were mailed to Ocean Shores registered voters. Of those, 313 came back to the county, as “undeliverable.”

To date, the county has received 2,211 completed ballots, from Ocean Shores. The represents 67 percent of the total registered voters; when you subtract the undeliverable, 74 percent of Ocean Shores citizens who received their ballots voted. Lid lift/EMS levy: “reject,” 1,503 (68.95%); “approve,” 677  (31.06%) “approve”; 2,180 total.

City Council: Position 5, Jackie Farra, 1,145 (57.97%), Nick Johnson 830 (42.03%) votes; 1,975 total votes. Position 1, John Lynn (unopposed): 1,424 votes. Position 7, Garland French (unopposed): 1,409 votes.

On the county’s most recent count, Jackie Farra, with nearly 58 percent of the votes, holds a 315 vote lead over incumbent Nick Johnson in the only City Council “race” (Garland French and John Lynn were uncontested). The rejection of the “Lid lift” levy for EMS shrunk slightly, but “rejected” is still at more than two-thirds. Nearly 70 percent of Ocean Shores’ 3,300 registered voters returned their ballots. The county will do another ballot count next Friday.

With about half of the total number of ballots mailed to Ocean Shores voters tabulated, the “Reject” votes are 542 ahead of the “Approved” vote, on “Proposition 1, Levy to Support Emergency Medical Services.” Supporters of the lid lift will have to hope for a seismic swing of pro-Prop 1 late voters.

In the only contested city council position, incumbent Nick Johnson, trailing newcomer Jackie Farra by 246 votes, is in a similar position, though his late rally would not have to be nearly as extreme.

Early results posted by the County election site:

That is just under 10 percent of Ocean Shores’ 3,307 registered voters . . . although some of those dropping off ballots here could be North Beach residents. In any case, this big chunk of last-day voters (not even including those who mailed ballots at the Post Office today) could mean that one or both of the contested elections (lid lift and Johnson vs. Farra) may be “too close to call” when the County puts up numbers tonight. Stay tuned . . .

There have been 1,279 ballots received by the County from Ocean Shores, as of this afternoon. That is up from the 790 received, as of Monday. The new total is 39 percent of the total 3,307 Ocean Shores voters.

The Chamber of Commerce has a well-linked web page devoted to  our coming elections. If you want to know more about the four candidates for three City Council seats, click here. (Nice work, web wizard Bruce Richardson!)

The not-quite-final Weatherwax vote, released at 4:15 p.m. today by the Grays Harbor County elections office: “retain” has 1,862 votes, or 66.69 percent; “sell all or part” has 930 votes, or 33.31 percent. (Almost identical to the first tally.)

With 2,792 votes counted so far, and 3,279 ballots mailed out to Ocean Shores voters, that’s an 85 percent voter-participation rate.

Another ballot count comes Nov. 19. Click here for the county-wide voting.