About 6,400 still out there.

My calculation for the 6,000 estimate (actually around 6,400) is [Signatures validated in Seattle] minus [votes cast in Seattle]. Of course, some people didn't vote in the mayor's race and there are also challenged ballots that could still be cured.

Wilson needed about 54.6 percent of the rest of the votes outstanding and got 55.6 percent of this latest batch, with about 6,000 ballots still out there (and not counting the 2,000 or so that have been challenged due to signature discrepancies, etc.)

lol tell me how we both know this

like, fine, write about what the family newspaper is doing to save itself on a one-off basis, but if you continue to pretend online publications don't exist you can't credibly claim to care about local news, just newsPAPERS.

I guess this is a basic thing some people don't know: Seattle police don't enforce the county's health code. So if they were in fact enforcing a Seattle law, it would be a local street use permit, which is not a criminal matter.

And if you don't (or even if you do), why is it suddenly a high priority that these vendors have their proper papers? Does it even affect you, other than a sense of moral outrage that someone, somewhere, is violating some law or "getting away with" something?

At a time when Latino immigrants are uniquely at risk and many struggle to make a living for fear of ICE raids, why are you focused on the supposed dangers of taco trucks, and do you have any actual evidence—as opposed to conjecture—that anyone has been harmed by taco trucks or Latino fruit vendors?

Is it really that you're worried about a taco truck competing with a sit-down restaurant (and do you have any evidence at all that this is happening)? Is it that you think taco trucks are especially dirty (and why do you think that; do you have evidence that restaurants' back-of-house is cleaner?)

If you go to street food vendors anywhere else in the world, ask yourself why it matters so much to you that vendors here have city and county permits, and whether you cared this much before TV news and the city and county councils started claiming this is a huge problem.

I assume most of the folks who freak out about food trucks go to sit-down restaurants that they read about in Conde Nast Traveler or something when visiting other cities with vibrant street food scenes.

The health permits are King County. Seattle also has its own permitting requirements for food trucks, and has a very long history of trying to prevent street food vending.

See my added post above. It's about 44,000 outstanding.

I see people questioning that 44,000 number. It's based on the number of signatures validated (around 277,000) minus the number of ballots counted (around 233,000) in Seattle.

I'm only counting votes in the mayor's race.

There's still the X factor of how much late voters responded to Harrell's attacks on Wilson's experience. It would be highly unusual, compared with previous Seattle elections, for the last count not to trend even more toward Wilson as the progressive in the race. Still a nail-biter though!

If Wilson hits just under 55 percent of the outstanding ballots, she'll defeat Harrell. Note that later ballots trend toward progressives, and that Wilson was at just 51.6 in yesterday's count, rising 3.2 percentage points when comparing these two vote drops. These are good numbers for her.