General election turnout sets record
November 30, 2010
NEW — 12:01 p.m. Nov. 30, 2010
Turnout for the November general election in King County set several records and exceeded projected turnout.
King County Elections received 786,461 ballots from voters, of which 766,477 could be counted. That is the largest number of ballots processed since the county became vote-by-mail only in 2008.
More than 91,000 voters returned their ballots at drop boxes. More than 6,500 ballots were returned too late to be counted.
