Nathan Weller has taken a 7 vote lead in an incredibly tight race. There could be 400-600 more votes to count. This looks like it might be headed to a recount.
Pullman City Council, Ward 2
AL SORENSEN; 252 votes (49.03 %)
NATHAN WELLER; 259 votes (50.39 %)
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Luckily Whitman county is not like King county when it comes to recounts. Votes here do not appear out of thin air or from the grave.
I wish I could be as confident as you SM. When I went to City Hall Tuesday to drop off my ballot, there were people filling out provisional ballots. If there is a recount, all those will have to checked against signatures on file with the county auditor, as well as the mail-in ballots. Quite a few balllots last year were disqualified because signatures didn't match or they had no signature. Often, especially with students, people are not eligble to vote in a particular local race because they have not transferred their registration. I'm not saying there's any plot afoot, but when the margin is 7-9 votes as we have seen, it may be a few weeks before we have a final result.
People do vote from the dead. My father did. It's an amazing feeling to hold a death certificate in one hand and see a voting record in the other. My father voted in person in Pullman a month after he died in Michigan. Weird but true.
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