I voted two weeks ago, because in Washington all voting is vote-by-mail. You get your ballot in the mail, and you can either mail it back or drop it in an election box (which is what I did). But the thing that is so nail-biting about it, is that ballots are valid as long as they are postmarked today, and who knows how many ballots were dropped in the mail today and won't arrive at the election office for a week? So if there's a really clear lead and a candidate is leading by more than there are outstanding possible votes yet to come in, you can call a race early. A close race ... we might not know for another week.
And the race I care most about (Representative from District 3), is currently very close. It's 52.6% for the Democrat, with 65% of the ballots that are already in the election office counted. And the Republican candidate is an ardent Trumper. He defeated the incumbent (a Republican from the less-crazy wing of the party) in the primaries, and was favored to win because this is a conservative-leaning area. I'm happy that it's close in the Democrat's favor! but we might not know who wins for a week.
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Date: 2022-11-09 07:58 am (UTC)And the race I care most about (Representative from District 3), is currently very close. It's 52.6% for the Democrat, with 65% of the ballots that are already in the election office counted. And the Republican candidate is an ardent Trumper. He defeated the incumbent (a Republican from the less-crazy wing of the party) in the primaries, and was favored to win because this is a conservative-leaning area. I'm happy that it's close in the Democrat's favor! but we might not know who wins for a week.