Recount in Powers-Lucarelli Race a Go
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By Chris Henry
chenry@kitsapsun.com
PORT ORCHARD
It’s official. There will be a recount in the race for Port Orchard
City Council Position 2.
In official results, posted Monday afternoon by the Kitsap County
Auditor’s office, incumbent Carolyn Powers, with 49.88 percent of
the vote, was 12 votes ahead of challenger Cindy Lucarelli, with
49.38 percent.
An automatic machine recount is triggered by a margin of half a
percentage point or less.
Write-in votes are not counted for purposes of determining if a
recount is needed. Without the 18 write-ins the margin widens
negligibly (three thousandths of a percentage point to be exact),
but is still within recount range.
A difference of one ballot would have deep-sixed the possibility of
a recount, according to Elections Manager Dolores Gilmore.
On Tuesday, the auditor’s office will begin reprogramming and
testing its equipment, as mandated by law. Between now and the
recount date, likely Dec. 3, elections officials must pull all
ballots within the City of Port Orchard. They must give legal
notice of the recount, and they must contact the candidates and
local political parties, who will have the right to observe
proceedings.
The recount must be certified by the county’s canvas board. Members
include Kitsap County Auditor Walt Washington, Kitsap County Board
of Commissioners Chairwoman Charlotte Garrido, and the Kitsap
County Prosecutor’s designee, Deputy Prosecutor Jacquelyn
Aufderheide.
If the vote count remains the same, Powers wins the election. If
the margin narrows to within a quarter of a percentage point, there
will be a hand recount.
The most recent recount in Kitsap County’s elections history was
the 2004 governor’s race.
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