PORT TOWNSEND — An unscheduled ballot count Wednesday found that, had all available votes been counted on Tuesday, the one-year Chimacum School District Transportation Levy would have garnered the 60 percent supermajority needed to pass.
The margin is still so slight, however, that the outcome, once all ballots are counted, is not assured.
Proposed taxes require 60 percent of the votes cast in an election to pass.
The Jefferson County Auditor’s Office counted 364 additional general election ballots on Wednesday.
A mechanical glitch had prevented the votes from being saved in the system during Tuesday’s initial count of the all-mail ballots in the general election.
Tuesday, the levy was teetering at 59.99 percent approval, but after Wednesday’s count, the percentage rose to 60.03.
That’s 3,023 “yes” votes to 2,013 “no” votes.
Even though Wednesday’s count put the levy over the necessary 60 percent, passage is not assured.
Today’s count of remaining ballots in the all-mail Nov. 7 election could change the result.
The $360,000 levy is for the purchase of three new school buses.
