PORT ANGELES — Margins of victory stayed the same for Rob Robertsen, Steve Tharinger and in all other races after election officials counted late-arriving mail ballots from last Tuesday’s Clallam County election.
Auditor Cathleen McKeown and her staff tabulated the 4,467 votes Monday afternoon.
The count of these ballots, postmarked Nov. 4 or earlier, winds up the all-mail election except for any contested votes that must be resolved before the election is officially certified Nov. 19.
Robertsen’s victory made him the first elected director of community development in the United States.
The former Clallam building official had 9,410 votes, or 53 cent, to 8,369 votes, or 47 percent, for Bob Martin, the present, appointed county community development director.
Tharinger, a Democrat who lives in Dungeness, was re-elected to a second four-year term with 11,904 votes, or 55 percent, to Sequim GOP challenger Sue Forde’s 9,720, 45 percent.
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The rest of the story appears in the Tuesday Peninsula Daily News.