Washington County, Oregon Chair Race: Fai Leads Treece by 460 Votes, 22 Above the Recount Threshold, About 7,000 Challenged Ballots Pending
In unofficial results released by Washington County, Oregon, as of 4 p.m. on Friday, November 13, County Commissioner Nafisa Fai leads fellow Commissioner Pam Treece in the race for county chair by 109,902 votes to 109,442, a margin of 460 votes, with a further 2,063 write-in votes. All results are unofficial.
Fai had led by 363 votes on Tuesday. Treece led by 4,200 votes in the November 4 count and by 1,864 in the November 6 count. Of the votes added since Tuesday, Fai gained 646 and Treece gained 549.
Under state law, the county must pay for a full recount if the certified margin is no more than one-fifth of 1 percent of the combined votes of the top two candidates. At Friday's totals, that threshold is 438 votes, 22 votes fewer than Fai's current 460-vote lead.
The county says about 7,000 challenged ballots are still being processed. Voters have until November 24 to cure signature problems with the Elections Office. Further results updates are scheduled for 4 p.m. on Fridays, November 20 and 27, with certification on Monday, November 30. The new chair's term begins on January 4, 2027.
Other results in the same update include Banks City Council Position 5, where Megan Blake leads City Councilor Pearcia Bogroff by 369 votes to 348, a margin of 21, with 9 write-ins; Bogroff led by 30 on election night, the two were tied 227-227 on November 4, and Blake led by 18 on November 6. In District 4, Kipperlyn Sinclair leads Steve Callaway by 26,482 to 24,949, a margin of 1,533; Callaway had already conceded. In the Banks mayoral race, Jimmy Bogroff leads Mayor Marsha Kirk by 464 votes to 316. Measure 34-352, a police levy renewal, is passing by 492 votes to 268.
Source: Washington County Elections, Oregon
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Photo: 图：俄勒冈州华盛顿县委员 Nafisa Fai（左二）与 Pam Treece（左三）出席公开活动时的合影。作者：Oregon Department of Transportation，CC BY 2.0，维基共享资源。 / Photo: Washington County Commissioners Nafisa Fai (second from left) and Pam Treece (third from left) at a public event. Credit: Oregon Department of Transportation, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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