Updated: McGann Leads by 16 Votes Friday in Enumclaw School Board Race

maintains her lead over opponent in the race for Enumclaw School Board Position No. 4 over opponent , according to Friday's elections totals from King County.

McGann leads at 3,097 (49.94 percent) over Peterson's 3,081 (49.69 percent). There are also 23 write-in votes (0.37 percent) in this race.

On the tight nature of this race, Peterson said he couldn't speak for McGann but would imagine they'd both hold out until the elections are certified at the end of the month before anyone budged on claiming victory or conceding. "It's such a tight race I'd think you'd want to hold out until the very end" he said Monday.

McGann confirmed Tuesday that with the lead jumping back and forth on a daily basis, she'll wait for election certification as well.

Friday's results accounts for 8,058 ballots cast out of 15,504 registered voters, or 51.59 percent.

Recount Bound? Here are the conditions:

Mandatory machine recounts are triggered if the difference between the two candidates is fewer than 2,000 votes and is less than half a percent, said King County Elections spokeswoman Kim van Ekstrom.

A mandatory hand recount is triggered when the difference between the two candidates is fewer than 150 votes and is less than a quarter of a percent, she said.

Van Ekstrom said that the county has about 40,000 ballots left to count.

However, any decision on recounts will be made after the certification of the election, which is Nov. 29, she said.

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