Thousands of King County ballots still to be counted

By Evan Smith

King County elections officials had more than 60,000 votes still to count after four days of counting.

At the end of Friday, officials had counted about 366,000 ballots out of about 427,000 that had arrived at elections headquarters in Renton.

The number of ballots will continue to grow as they trickle in until officials certify results Aug. 21. Those late ballots will come either from Americans voting from overseas or from voters whose ballots were returned for signature verification.

The ballot return rate of 38.43 percent is below expectations.