Here is the link to all of the election results for King County.
Daily archives for November 2nd, 2010
Fairwood residents voting against annexation 55.2 percent to 44.8 percent in early returns
Nov02
2010
Written by Randy Corman
2010
Written by Randy Corman
Fairwood residents appear to be rejecting annexation to Renton by about the same margin (approximately 45% to 55%) that they last rejected incorporation.
It looks like they will remain in King County for a while.
Below is the prediction I made twenty months ago in this journal entry based on a survey conducted by Renton and King County at that time:
Based on these results, a likely sequence of events would be that the Fairwood Incorporation initiative would come up for a vote first, and then fail. Next, a vote to annex to Renton would potentially come up, and probably fail (unless over half of those who wanted to form Fairwood switched over to support annexing to Renton, which does not seem likely to me.) In the end, Fairwood would end up remaining unincorporated, an idea favored by just 31 percent of the voters in the area.
Guess I called it.
Here are the results so far. Here are the results from last year’s incorporation election.
At last!…the incessant phone calls will stop!
Nov02
2010
Written by Randy Corman
2010
Written by Randy Corman
We’ve never received as many phone calls as we have during this election. I attribute it to five ballots coming to our house, fewer people still using land lines like ours, my family waiting too long to send our ballots in, and millions of dollars of national being poured into our US Senate and House races. And we screen our calls and don’t generally answer unidentified numbers unless the caller makes it clear who they are in their message, so pollsters may have tried calling us repeatedly.
In any case, our household is guessing we received somewhere between one-hundred and two-hundred election-related calls during the last few weeks. Most of them of course were robo-calls. Every day our answering machine filled up.
It goes without saying that this is WAY too many. I would not complain if each campaign left me one message explaining why I should vote for their candidate. But this was far too many.
I’m going to seriously consider dumping our land line before the next national election.
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