PORT TOWNSEND — Fifty-nine-plus percent isn’t enough.
The requirement of a 60 percent supermajority to gain bond authority to build a new Grant Street Elementary School and fix other buildings in the Port Townsend School District appears to have doomed this week’s $33.8 million bond election.
After 313 additional ballots were counted on Wednesday afternoon, the district is just 0.04 percent shy of 60 percent.
But the number of outstanding ballots left to count is not enough to overcome the razor-thin margin, even if they’re all affirmative, the county’s chief vote-counter said.
With 5,949 ballots counted after polling closed Tuesday night and additionally on Wednesday, the results are:
