Lynnwood will have the only recount from the Nov. 3 general election among 184 contests around Snohomish County.
The recount will come in the Lynnwood City Council race between incumbent Councilman Benjamin Goodwin and challenger Chris Frizzell.
Final results showed Goodwin leading Frizzell by 19 votes, 0.37 percent of the 5,731 votes for the two of them. That’s within the 0.50 percent margin to trigger a machine recount but short of the 0.25 percent margin to trigger a hand recount.
A machine recount means running all ballots through the scanning machines for a second time. A hand recount means having a pair of election judges look at every ballot to determine voter intent.
The county canvassing board certified results Wednesday.
Elections officials plan to separate Lynnwood ballots from other county ballots Monday, Nov. 30, and do the recount Thursday, Dec. 3.
Goodwin has 2,745 votes, 49.9 percent of the total, to Frizzell’s 2,726 votes, 49.6 percent, with 26 write-in votes, 0.5 percent; 832 Lynnwood voters left the position blank; two ballots didn’t count because each voter marked the ballot more than once.
Evan Smith can be reached at schsmith@frontier.com.
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