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Monday, November 18, 2002 · Last updated 4:24 p.m. PT
Monorail margin: 3 votes
The monorail plan is now losing -- by three votes.After two weeks of watching their election-night lead dwindle steadily as elections officials counted absentee ballots, monorail supporters finally fell behind.
The election is now a virtual tie. According to the latest tally, 92,435 have voted for the proposal, while 92,438 have voted against it.
The fate of whether Seattle will spend $1.75 billion to build a West Seattle-to-Ballard monorail line now comes down to several thousand special ballots elections officials plan to count Tuesday.
Those ballots were largely filled out by absentee voters who did not receive their ballots in the mail and went to polling places, or by people who went to the wrong polling places.
The election does not call for a mandatory recount. Either side can call for one at their own cost. Neither side, however, has indicated whether they plan to call for a recount.
King County elections director Bob Roegner said there are 6,000 more special ballots to be counted countywide. He said he does not know how many are just from Seattle.
In addition, there are 1,700 remaining "add-on" ballots, which are ballots that were not counted on Election Day either because of some damage to the ballot or because of a two-minute power outage in Rainier Valley. Of those, 800 are from Seattle.
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