Peninsula: Support of school levies remains strong

School district maintenance and operations levies in Cape Flattery, Chimacum, Quilcene and Sequim appear to have passed by substantial margins.

A Friday count of late-arriving ballots shows all four continue to have the support of a supermajority of voters.

Clallam County elections officials counted 104 new ballots in the Cape Flattery election and 1,793 new ballots in the Sequim election.

Jefferson County elections officials counted 211 new ballots in the Chimacum election and 59 new ballots in the Quilcene election.

Here are the results as of Friday.

More ballots may arrive before the elections are certified on Feb. 15.

Cape Flattery

Total ballots: 509

Yes: 386 (75.8 percent)

No: 123 (24.2 percent)

Chimacum

Total ballots: 3,780

Yes: 2,715 (71.8 percent)

No: 1,065 (28.2 percent)

Quilcene

Total ballots: 619

Yes: 419 (67.7 percent)

No: 200 (32.3 percent)

Sequim

Total ballots: 11,262

Yes: 7329 (65.1 percent)

No: 3933 (34.9 percent)

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