Machine recount of 3rd Congressional District scheduled for Dec. 15

The Clark County Elections Department received notification from the Office of Secretary of State that Joe Kent provided a written application requesting a machine recount for the 3rd Congressional District race.
Joe Kent

The review of under-voted ballots in this race will continue until all ballots are reviewed, or the applicant has filed a written request to stop the machine recount

The Clark County Elections Department received notification from the Office of Secretary of State that Joe Kent provided a written application requesting a machine recount for the 3rd Congressional District race. 

The Clark County Canvassing Board met at 3 p.m., Tue., Dec. 13 to schedule the machine recount. The machine recount consists of examining all undervotes in that race per WAC 434-264-055 and has been set to begin at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 15. 

The review of under-voted ballots in this race will continue until all ballots are reviewed, or the applicant has filed a written request to stop the machine recount. 

The Canvassing Board will reconvene at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 20 to certify the amended abstract of the machine recount. Final recount results will be posted on the County Elections’ website at clark.wa.gov/elections/results

In the last results released on Nov. 29, Kent trailed Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez by 2,629 votes. The margin between the two candidates was less than 1 percent.

Perez had 160,314 votes (50.14 percent). Kent had 157,685 (49.31 percent).


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  1. Keith Anvick

    Our election system is crazy. Even with mail-in voting it should only take a couple of days to collect and count all votes received and postmarked on election day. Vote counting went on for several weeks. Our system doesn’t give one any confidence in how elections are run here in Washington State. We need election reform…

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