A tight Lynnwood City Council contest from the Nov. 3 ballot keeps getting tighter.
Lynnwood ballots counted Monday showed that the margin between city council incumbent Benjamin Goodwin and challenger Chris Frizzell was back within range for a mandatory recount. The margin had fallen outside that range Friday.
Goodwin’s lead over Frizzell narrowed Monday to 20 votes, 0.37 percent of the 5,464 total votes for the two of them. The contest will have a recount if the margin stays below 0.50 percent. It would be a machine recount, unless the margin gets below 0.25 percent, the level that would trigger an automatic hand recount.
The Friday count shows Goodwin with 2,742 votes, 49.95 percent of the votes, to Frizzell’s 2,722 votes, 49.58 percent.
Frizzell had outpolled Goodwin 45.85 percent to 41.04 percent in a three-way August primary.
Other Lynnwood council results show three challengers all leading incumbents. Challenger George Hurst leads incumbent Sid Roberts by a 53.67 percent to 45.81 percent margin, challenger Shirley Sutton leads incumbent Loren Simmonds by a 56.75 percent to 42.54 percent margin, and challenger Shannon Sessions leads incumbent Van AuBuchon 56.38 percent to 43.11 percent.
Snohomish County elections officials have counted 99.98 percent of ballots. They still need to count ballots that trickle in between now and Monday from voters who need to repair missing signatures or signatures that don’t match the signatures on file.
County officials plan to post updated returns Friday and Monday before final certification of results Tuesday, Nov. 24.
Evan Smith can be reached at schsmith@frontier.com.
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