All Edmonds City Council contests are out of the range for mandatory recounts now that incumbents Diane Buckshnis and Lora Petso have extended their leads, and challenger Joan Bloom has held her lead over incumbent Councilman DJ Wilson.
With Buckshnis holding a 149-vote lead over challenger Bob Wilcox, Bloom holding a 114-vote lead over Wilson and Petso holding a 109-vote lead over challenger Darlene Stern, all are outside the range for a mandatory recount.
State law requires a machine recount if the margin between two candidates is less than 0.5 percent of their combined total when the county certifies results Nov. 29. It’s a hand recount if the margin is less than 0.25 percent.
With Petso having 7,028 votes to 6,919 for Stern, a margin of 69 votes or fewer would trigger a machine recount, and a margin of 34 votes or fewer would trigger a hand recount.
A machine recount means that elections officials run all Edmonds ballots through the counting machine after separating them from other county ballots. A hand recount means that teams of two members appointed by county Democrats and Republicans count piles of ballots with supervision from county officials until they agree on totals.
Evan Smith can be reached at schsmith@frontier.com
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