Bellingham Politics and Economics

Some data I extracted from the 11/09/2023 state matchback is below. Many challenged ballots won't be 'cured' by November 27th. ...

Below is data analysis from  the BSR  for November 10th.  Clearly some of the local 42nd LD races are still close . Ballot Chases may be man...

Below is some data analysis from  the BSR  for November 9th.  Clearly the local 42nd races will be close . Ballot Chases may be mandatory fo...

Below is some data analysis from the BSR for November 8th. Clearly the local 42nd races will be close . Ballot Chases may be mandatory for...

 Are we being deluged by big bucks Californians? Selling their Bay Area  homes for bank to come buy their escape from California in Whatcom ...

Data and charts on Age and Gender for Returned Ballots for the WA GE 2020 below the break. Click to enlarge the charts.

November 24th is the county certification of the November general election. There are still  35,682 with status rejected (mostly Signature ...

Key numbers above the break. More details after the break: [1] "All Ballots:" [1]  4,111,915 No Previous historical record of Voti...

Key numbers above the break. More details after the break: [1] "All Ballots:" [1] 4069665 No Previous historical record of Voting ...

Voters should visit   https://voter.votewa.gov   and check their ballot status. For ballot status other than "Accepted", voters ma...

For 11/03/2020, over 3.8M ballots are returned in WA with 47,518 challenged. Almost 29,904 of these challenges are signature not matching . ...

11/02/2020 without comment below. One matchback will be  returned before results Tuesday night. Matchbacks will continue to certification.

 10/31/2020 without comment below. Two more matchbacks are returned before results tonight and Tuesday night, although the matchbacks will c...

For 10/30/2020, over   3.15 M   ballots are returned in WA with  37,696  challenged. Almost  24,863  of these challenges are signature not m...

  For 10/29/2020, over   2.95M   ballots are returned in WA with  35,658  challenged. Almost  22,973  of these challenges are signature not ...

For 10/28/2020, over 2.75M ballots are returned in WA with  34,217  challenged. Almost  21,563  of these challenges are signature not match...

For 10/27/2020, over 2.56M ballots returned with ~32K challenged ballots in WA. Almost 19K of these ballots are signature matching challe...

10/26 Ballot Statistics Return Over 2.2M ballots returned with ~29K challenged ballots. Almost 16K of these challenged are signature matchin...

10/24 Ballot Statistics Return Over 2M ballots returned. ~27K challenges. Spokane leads the the top five counties in turnout percentage. 7.6...

This is a ballot return data analysis page for WA 2020 General election. I will compile as many aggregations as possible as sequential posti...

These charts all aggregate gender by age group voting patterns in Whatcom County. The top chart is from October 2020 VRDB data . A non empty...

I find $30M in Independent Expenditures (ICE) and Organizational plus Individual contributions for all WA 2020 statehouse (representative an...

Provocative and timely data on what will be a razor thin series of margins in the competitive 42nd LD: ratio =  JenniferSefzik/(JenniferSef...