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Wednesday, February 9, 2005
King County acts to avoid counting unverified provisional ballots
After several hundred provisional King County ballots were mistakenly fed into polling-place vote-counting machines in the November election without verification of the voters' registrations, county election officials made a procedural change aimed at preventing it from happening in yesterday's and future elections.
Dean Logan, the county director of records, elections and licensing services, said his division, as a pilot project, gave poll workers removable labels to place over the fronts of provisional ballots.
The labels cause the tabulating machines to reject the ballots until poll workers remove the labels after verifying that the voters are registered.
"Other than that, the procedures are consistent with past elections," Logan said.
Yesterday's election was far tamer than the November election, which suffered from a combination of a massive voter turnout, an extraordinarily close governor's election and subsequent litigation that uncovered a host of voter and tabulation errors.
Voters in the Auburn School District were deciding whether to spend more than $44 million on new schools and high-tech upgrades.
They were voting on a pair of funding measures that, in unofficial returns, appeared to be passing.
Both measures needed a 60 percent "yes" vote to be approved.
The two measures would cost taxpayers 31 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuation. But because district officials have timed the measures to coincide with the expiration of other measures, the school tax rate would remain the same at $5.35 per $1,000 of assessed valuation.
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