Data mistake briefly misreported some Snohomish County primary tallies
EVERETT — A mapping error upended ballot counts in a pair of Snohomish County precincts on Tuesday, leading to different results showing up on the state elections website but no changed outcomes in a handful of races.
County and state election officials discovered votes cast in one precinct were counted twice, while those from another precinct did not get counted at all.
Once corrected, the county reloaded its original tally of ballots into the state reporting system. This produced updated and correct vote totals on the state’s elections result site in races in the 44th Legislative District, 1st Congressional District, U.S. Senate and secretary of state.
Results posted by the county on its elections webpage shortly after 8 p.m. were correct and never changed. The problem occurred in the transfer of data to the state’s reporting system.
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