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Be careful what you ask for.
Under pressure from ranked choice voting advocates, Pierce County Auditor Pat McCarthy announced Friday she will run a computer program on election night that will give a snapshot of early results.
The unintended consequence: you won’t get results for any other races – including governor, president, etc. – between 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and 3 a.m. Wednesday.
Originally, the office also planned to issue results at 10 p.m. Tuesday and 12 a.m. (midnight) Wednesday.
McCarthy had not planned to run the ranked choice voting computer program until Friday. The rationale: the office wouldn’t have enough ballots Tuesday night to produce a meaningful result (She planned to release a tally of first-place RCV results along with results from other races).
But RCV advocates (and The News Tribune editorial page) demanded McCarthy run the program sooner than Friday. They suggested it wouldn’t look good if McCarthy – a candidate for county executive – withheld full results for the RCV races.
Saying she didn’t want anyone to question the integrity of her staff, McCarthy gave in. If all goes well on election night, her office will run the ranked choice voting computer program and issue results for the affected county offices at 11:30 p.m.
But in announcing the decision Friday, McCarthy said she’d be forced to stop counting ballots for two to three hours to run the computer program. Thus the revised schedule for releasing other results.
Here’s the revised schedule from the auditor’s office:
"Revised" Tentative schedule (subject to change)
Absentee results for Traditional and Ranked Choice ballots will be reported in the 1st release at approximately 8:30 p.m. Poll site results will be released throughout the night until all poll site ballots are counted.Traditional and Ranked Choice ballots will be counted by a central count method for the General Election. Poll site optical scan tabulators will not be used, but touch screen voting machines will be available at the polls. After the closing of the polls, polling place ballots along with the touch screen results will be securely transported to the Election Center. Ballots will be sorted and centrally counted by precinct. We will continue the tabulation throughout the night until all poll site ballots are counted and cumulative results for Traditional and Ranked Choice ballots are released.
(Please note: Results are Unofficial until Certification)
Election Night, November 4, 2008
8:30 p.m.
11:30 p.m. (Tentative) First release of Ranked Choice Voting Algorithm ResultsWednesday, November 5, 2008
3:00 a.m.
6:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
12:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.November 6 through 24, 2008 (excluding weekends and holidays)
Ranked Choice Voting Algorithm Results
Approximately 7:00 p.m. daily
Second Release: Friday, November 7, 2008
Once per week through certification
