November 3 General Election: Breakdown of the numbers

King County Elections certified the November 3 General Election last Tuesday. Below you’ll find some interesting numbers that elaborate on the usual result and return numbers you’re used to seeing, creating a new background and story about each election.

• ZERO discrepancies between ballots received and ballots tabulated
• 1,096,639 ballots issued
• 600,000 (56%) projected turnout
• 587,198 (53.55% turnout) total ballots returned
• 574,298 total ballots counted
• 4,325 signature challenge calls made
• 2,743 ballots had signature that were originally challenged and then resolved
• 6,621 ballots were returned after the deadline
• 57 provisional ballots counted
• 977 accessible ballots counted
• 8,431 replacement ballots issued
• 856 voters didn’t sign the oath on the envelope
• 117,983 (20 percent of total) ballots returned at a ballot drop box
• 70,742 (59 percent of total) ballots were returned at a ballot drop box on Election Day
• 425 temporary staff positions filled to conduct the election
• 171 Facebook fans of “vote by mail”