You can please some of the people some of the time…. Municipal clerk Colleen Ingman holds up a ballot on which a voter has written “Don’t like any.” Absentee counting did not change the outcome of Tuesday’s (10-7-14) election. (KCAW photo/Robert Woolsey)
Mim McConnell solidified her lead in the mayor’s race — but other than that there were no changes in the outcome of Sitka’s municipal elections following the counting of absentee ballots Friday afternoon (10-10-14).
McConnell picked up another 146 votes in the count, to her opponent’s 70. The extra votes gave her a 20-point edge over Orion Hughes-Knowles, with 60-percent of the vote.
In the assembly race, leader Steven Eisenbeisz picked up 105 absentee votes, along with third-place runner-up Thor Christianson. Second-place finisher Tristan Guevin (gay-von) was not far behind, picking up 92 absentee votes.
Eisenbeisz and Guevin will be sworn in to three-year terms when the assembly next meets on October 14. Mayor Mim McConnell will take the oath of office for another two years.
Tom Conley and Tim Fulton, unopposed in this years’ race for school board, will be sworn in to three-year terms when that body meets next in November.
