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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Lewis County mails 20,090 ballots for Aug. 5 primary election
Jul. 16—The Lewis County Auditor's Office mailed out 20,090 ballots on Wednesday after already mailing out 206 military and overseas ballots in mid-June. Ballots will go to residents across Lewis County ahead of the Aug. 5 primary election, which includes four local office elections and three ballot proposals. According to a news release announcing the release of the ballots, voters should expect their ballots to arrive the week of July 21. Voters should request a replacement ballot if theirs doesn't arrive by Friday, July 25. Voters can request a replacement ballot online by going to the "your ballot and voting materials" page at over the phone by calling 360-740-1278, or toll free in Lewis County at 1-800-562-6130, or by going in person to the auditor's office in the Lewis County Courthouse in Chehalis during office hours from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on election day. If your address has changed, you can contact the auditor's office over the phone, in person or go online to to update voter registration information. Ballots are being delivered only to residents in areas affected by one of the seven items being voted on during the Aug. 5 election. The items being voted on include the primary elections for the City of Centralia District 2 City Council seat, City of Winlock Mayor, Winlock School District Director District 2 seat and the Lewis County Fire Protection District No. 5 Board of Commissioners Position 2 seat. Ballot measures include a Mossyrock School District Educational Programming and Operations Levy, a White Pass School District Educational Programming and Operations Levy and a Lewis County Fire Protection District No. 4 bond measure. Primary election For the 2025 election cycle, there will be more than 102 races for local offices throughout Lewis County, but of all those, only four races have more than two candidates and require a primary election for the Aug. 5 election day. The top-two vote getters from each primary race will advance to the general election to be held Nov. 4. In Centralia, three candidates are running for the District 2 city council seat. They are Ray Chapman-Wilson, Leah Sisemore and Chuck Kifer. In Napavine and the surrounding area, Lewis County Fire Protection District 5 has three people running for Position 2 on the district's board of commissioners. Those are Sam Patrick, Tom Crowson and Rick LeBoeuf. In Winlock, four people are running to be mayor, including current Mayor Brandon Svenson along with Jodie Curtis, Victoria Marincin and America Lunsford. Three people, Taylor Myers, Stevie Bennett and Jarryd Forler, are running for the District 2 seat on the Winlock School District Board of Directors. Ballot measures There are three ballot proposals being voted on in the county. Two are educational programming and operations levies for the White Pass and Mossyrock school districts as well as a bond measure for Lewis County Fire Protection District No. 4 in Morton to build a new fire station. The Mossyrock School District is taking another run at passing an operations levy after a two-year levy proposal failed by just three votes in the spring special election. The new proposal is for a three-year levy that would replace the district's previous three-year levy just as it expires. The new levy would collect $1,475,686.00 in 2026, $1,647,682.00 in 2027 and $1,741,495 in 2028. The district estimates the average levy rate at $1.27 per $1,000 of assessed property value. The White Pass School District is looking to pass a four-year educational program and operations levy with a uniform collection of $1,197,644 each year from 2026 through 2029. The estimated levy rate is $0.79 per $1,000 of assessed property value. Finally the Lewis County Fire Protection District No. 4 in Morton is proposing issuing $3,000,000 in 15-year bonds to fund the construction of a new fire station to replace the district's current building. The resolution initiating the ballot proposal says a new building will "meet the community's current and future firefighting needs." The Morton-based fire district, like the Mossyrock School District, is taking a second run at a proposal that failed in the spring by a slim margin. The proposal on the spring special election ballot proposed issuing $3,000,000 in 20-year bonds and received 57.36% of the vote in support, but failed to reach the 60% approval threshold necessary to pass a bond. Solve the daily Crossword
ABC News
5 days ago
- Politics
- ABC News
Liberal candidate Gisele Kapterian petitions High Court over 150 ballots
The defeated Liberal candidate for the federal electorate of Bradfield has raised doubts about more than 150 ballots, in a petition asking the High Court to overturn the result. The first full distribution of preferences in the seat on Sydney's north shore had Liberal candidate Gisele Kapterian ahead by eight votes, but a recount saw independent Nicolette Boele declared the winner by 26 votes. After almost six weeks, Ms Kapterian announced on Monday she would take the result to the High Court, sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns. "We are requesting a targeted final examination of a small number of 'line ball' ballots," Ms Kapterian said in a statement posted to social media. She has now lodged a petition, asking the court to overturn the result and declare her the winner. The petition claims the electoral officer wrongly rejected at least 56 ballots which favoured Ms Kapterian. This includes 22 ballots where the officer concluded certain numbers were not distinguishable from other numbers, and 34 ballots where numbers were deemed illegible. Ms Kapterian argues, taking the ballot papers as a whole, it was clear "that the voter intended to indicate a first preference for 1 candidate and an order of preference for all remaining candidates". Ms Kapterian has further identified at least 93 ballots favouring Ms Boele which she claims were wrongly admitted, despite similar issues. She argues a further two ballots favouring Ms Boele were admitted despite "having upon it a mark or writing … by which the voter could be identified." In her social media post, Ms Kapterian said in launching a legal challenge, she was not questioning the integrity of the electoral system. "This process has only served to reaffirm my faith in Australia's democratic institution," she said. The new parliament is due to sit for the first time next week, and Ms Boele has said she is preparing to deliver her first speech the week after. In her own social media statement, she said she would seek donations to fund her legal costs. "We can't rely on volunteers in the High Court, we need good lawyers and that is expensive," Ms Boele said. It is not yet known when the Court of Disputed Returns might sit to hear the case.
CBS News
20-06-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
When will we know the NYC mayoral primary election winner?
New York City voters are casting their ballots in the primary election for a Democratic mayoral nominee, and many are wondering when we will know who won -- and how ranked choice voting will impact the results, and their timing. Early voting wraps up this weekend, and Election Day is next Tuesday, June 24. Are we going to get results on primary night? We will see unofficial first choice results after polls close at 9 p.m., but that's not the end of the story, considering ranked choice voting. Those unofficial first choice results will include those marked as first choice from early voting, Election Day, and valid mail-in ballots. If, however, no candidate goes over 50% of the vote - and considering the large number of candidates running in this race, that seems very likely - we will then move into ranked choice elimination rounds. Under the system, the candidate who got the fewest first-round votes will then be eliminated, and voters who ranked that candidate first on their ballots will then have their second choice candidate counted. That process will then repeat until one candidate exceeds 50% of the vote. So when will we get a clear picture of the winner? We will likely start to get a clearer picture of the winner before official results are certified. Preliminary, non-certified results will come out a week after the election. We can then expect weekly reports, as elimination rounds are conducted. The entire process could take up to several weeks. In the last mayoral primary -- the first citywide election with ranked choice voting -- the final results were certified nearly a month after the election.. At a certain point, a presumed winner may start to emerge. For example, if a candidate is approaching 50% of the vote, and the gap between that candidate's unofficial numbers and their nearest competitor is greater than the number of ballots still needing to be counted, then that person will almost certainly become the winner. The final, certified results still won't come out until all ballots are counted, including early voting, mail-in, absentee, military, affidavit and emergency ballots.
CBC
23-05-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Conservative MP Kathy Borrelli's victory in Windsor upheld by four votes
The official recount of ballots in the federal riding of Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore has been completed, and Conservative representative Kathy Borrelli remains the winner — by a margin of only four votes. CBC's Dalson Chen spoke with Lydia Miljan of the University of Windsor about what it means.
CBC
14-05-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Here's what's happening in Terra Nova-The Peninsulas recount
The ballot recount in the tightest race in this year's federal election continues in Marystown, N.L. Liberal Anthony Germain initially beat Conservative Jonathan Rowe by only 12 votes in the newly redrawn Terra Nova-The Peninsulas riding. That razor-thin margin prompted an automatic judicial recount. Supreme Court Justice Garrett Handigran told CBC News the teams should be finished counting the more than 41,000 ballots by about 5:30 p.m. NT Wednesday. When that's done, he will start reviewing the riding's disputed ballots. Lawyers are expected to make their arguments over those ballots in the afternoon. WATCH | How disputed ballots could decide the outcome of this race: Candidates and supporters on edge as election recount goes down to the wire 2 hours ago Duration 1:46 Some of those disputed ballots might include those rejected on election night. In all, 579 were rejected in the initial count. They can be rejected for a number of reasons, including how an elector indicates their chosen candidate. For example, a ballot must be rejected by the recount team if the voter did not make a mark in the circle next to a candidate's name. Further, if there are any identifying markers or a voter marked for a person other than a listed candidate, those are grounds for rejection. A rejected ballot can be accepted during the recount process if the recount teams — which include representatives for each candidate — unanimously agree that the ballot should be reclassified. In such a tight race, every vote in the 279 ballot boxes counts. Eleven of those boxes include special ballots, and 23 boxes hold votes cast in advanced polls. Although both candidates have expressed confidence, the outcome of the recount is not set in stone. The Quebec riding of Terrebonne flipped to Liberal by a single vote.
