The machine recount in the Grays Harbor County Commissioner, District 3 race is complete and Republican Keith Olson still holds a 10-vote lead over Democrat Al Smith in the contest to advance to the general election, Election Supervisor Katy Moore said Friday.
No challenge of the recount result has been filed so far.
Olson will face Cosmopolis Mayor Vickie Raines, who is running with no party preference, in the November election. Olson has led Smith since the first updated count of the primary votes. The lead was so narrow, a machine recount was mandated by law.
The race will pit Olson, who is from Quinault in the rural and northernmost area of the District 3 against Raines, the longtime mayor of Cosmopolis. The district also contains the urban areas of Hoquiam and Ocean Shores. It runs from Central Park west along the north end of the Harbor to North Beach and north up to the border with Jefferson County.
The defeat of Smith is a loss for Democrats. Fellow Democrat, Commission President Frank Gordon, championed Smith’s candidacy and actively opposed Raines in the race.
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