PORT ANGELES — Today’s count of 1,117 additional ballots left special election outcomes unchanged.
The count of ballots that came into the Clallam County Auditor’s office after Tuesday night slightly raised the approval percentage for the Sequim School District’s proposed $54 million construction bond but not enough to put the measure over the 60 percent threshold needed for bond passage.
The count also raised approval percentages for two four-year Crescent School District levies: a maintenance and operation levy and a capital projects levy. Both had been approved by voters in Tuesday night’s count.
Clallam County voter turnout is 61.09 percent, with 14,725 ballots received in the all-mail election out of 24,104 registered voters.
The Jefferson County Auditor’s Office, which counted an additional 953 ballots Wednesday, had a voter turnout of 54.55 percent, with 12,601 ballots returned out of 23,100 mailed.
Both offices will make their final count on Feb. 19 before the elections are certified.
The Sequim school bond has received 8,068 votes, or 57.3 percent approving it, to 6,009 votes, or 42.6 percent, opposed.
The vote total in Clallam County was 7,344 votes, or 57.04 percent, approving it to 55,32 votes, or 42.96 percent, opposing it.
In Jefferson County — which has a small number of voters in the Sequim School District — the totals are 97 votes, or 55.75 percent, approving the bond to 77 votes, or 44.25, opposing it.
Today’s count resulted in these totals for Crescent School District’s levies:
■ Its four-year maintenance and operation levy was approved by 536 votes, or 66.09 percent, and opposed by 275, or 33.91 percent.
■ Its four-year capital projects levy was approved by 532 votes, or 65.6 percent, and opposed by 279, or 34.4 percent.
Levies need only a 50 percent majority for passage.
In Jefferson County, Port Townsend School District’s $40.9 million construction bond won 73.23 percent approval while Chimacum School District’s $29.1 million bond proposal failed with 57.97 percent approval.
Also approved was a $530,000 bond to replace Discovery Bay Fire & Rescue’s fire station. The measure won 62.29 percent approval.
Maintenance and operation levies proposed for Brinnon and Quilcene schools also passed. Quilcene’s four-year levy passed with 67.24 percent approval, while Brinnon’s two-year levy won 64.74 percent approval.
