You folks know the drill. It takes a while to process all the ballots for a mail-in election, so it will be a little while before know for certain. Still, early results see that most of the School Board measures are passing, including Kent School District No. 415 Proposition No. 1 Replacement of Expiring Educations Programs and Operations Levy.
The KCD results are a little quicker, in that they were totally on-line this year. Kirsten Haugen is dominating the race with 70% of the vote, but only three-quarters a percent of eligible voters (of less than 10,000 voters total) cast their ballots. That ain't a great result.
But here's an interesting thing. One of the candidates, Dominique Torgeson, gave a nice, balanced candidate statement, finishing up with "KCD is a non-partisan organization. I shall not seek the endorsement of any politician or political party." She may not has sought it out, but this spam DM showed up on my phone right before the deadline.
"Hi, Richard. I am Jay for ElectTorgeron-R. Official Online Election of King Conservation District has begun. You will not get a ballot in the mail., We need every conservative Vote for Torgerson! Please go to the official website [Link] Tks STOP to Stop"
Yeah, first of all, I'm not Richard, but I get messages for him all the time - usually conservative pitches. But that's not the thing - The thing is that while such positions are listed as non-partisan, the candidates may be as partisan as they choose to be - they just don't have to tell you. So we have to dig a bit more to find out where the support is coming from.
So NOW we're done. At least until the next primary. I hope.
More later,
