King County Elections Tuesday morning certified the results of the county’s first all-mail general election Nov. 3, completely accounting for all ballots received and processed by the department.

Official results are posted online at http://your.kingcounty.gov/elections/200911/results.aspx.

Elections has been working toward achieving certain performance standards. With only two discrepancies from a total of 1,193,209 ballots received over the past year, this is the first year the Elections Division has met the six sigma standard.

“This really is a testament to how much work has gone into streamlining our procedures and how accountable our process has become over the years,” said Sherril Huff, King County Elections’ director. “It is such an accomplishment for the department to have met these standards as we prepare to continue to benchmark our successes with these standards in the years to come.”

Final numbers show that 587,198 ballots were returned, for a turnout of 53.55 percent of the 1,096,639 registered voters.

“Turnout was slightly lower than we projected, but right in line with other odd-year general elections,” said Huff. “It’s nice to see a substantial number of voters turn out, given how important the candidates on the ballot are; like the executive, many city mayors and council members, and others who affect the day-to-day lives of King County voters.”

The electronic canvass of results, broken down by precinct will be available online at www.kingcounty.gov/elections/results.aspx on Tuesday, Dec. 1, by 4:30 p.m.

New for all-mail elections, a manual audit of mail ballots is conducted. Twenty batches, representing 4,338 ballots were hand-counted and compared to the machine count. All batch audits conducted have also been 100 percent accurate to date.