Washington is an all-vote-by-mail state, so ballots are assumed to be outstanding on election day rather than treated as early votes that need to be delivered in time to be counted with everyone else’s in-person votes. Final results aren’t certified until several weeks after the election (Spokane County certifies on the 27th according to their results-tracking website) to ensure that all outstanding ballots have had a chance to arrive, though with modern statistical modeling, most races can be informally called much earlier than that. It’ll be interesting to see how soon the WA-5 House race gets called.
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