2020 August Primary Endorsements

Please direct any questions regarding endorsements to elections@43rddemocrats.org.

Federal

State Executive

Legislature

State Supreme Court

King County Superior Court

CAndidateS

The list of candidates that were eligible for our endorsement is available here.

The questionnaires submitted by candidates are available in the 43rd District Democrats Google Drive folder.

Endorsement Process

The membership voted on endorsements at our June General Membership meeting on June 16th, 2020, in accordance with our 2020 Endorsement Rules. Due to the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, this was a virtual meeting conducted over Cisco Webex Meetings, and votes were conducted using Google Forms. Links to the ballot forms for the meeting are available here.

Minutes from that meeting are available here.

Additionally, raw vote data and the Tally Committee’s tabulation spreadsheets can be found in our public Google Drive folder.

Amended Results

Following the June endorsements meeting, the Tally Committee reviewed the results for any signs of errors or anomalies. We identified an issue that affected the outcome of the Initiative 131 endorsement race. Due to an error in the counting process, we omitted 30 votes for “No Position” in the Initiative 131 endorsement vote from the vote totals for that race. This artificially lowered the threshold of votes required for a position to earn an endorsement, from 125 votes to 110 votes. Since the “Yes” position received 122 votes, we reported at the meeting that the “Yes” position was endorsed. However, upon recount after correcting errors in the counting process, we find that the “Yes” position did not receive enough votes to reach the endorsement threshold, and thus the membership did not vote to endorse any position on Initiative 131.

In total, we identified two counting errors in addition to the error identified during the meeting, however only the issue described above had any impact on the outcome of any race.

Further details on the errors that were uncovered and the results review can be found in our report here.