If you’re living under a rock, or you’re the apolitical one of your friend group receiving this article via text message or frantic DM, listen up. We still don’t know who the Mayor of Seattle is going to be.

Whatever happens will be decided along razor thin margins. We’re potentially in recount territory, political consultants say. A mandatory machine recount only happens if a candidate wins by less than half a percent or less than 2,000 votes. Former mayor Greg Nickels hypothesized that the election could be decided by 65 votes out of more than 280,000 total ballots cast (very specific, Greg.) If Nickels is right, we’re in mandatory hand recount, which requires a difference of less than 250 votes and 0.25 percent of the vote total.

So the 1,930 ballots currently being challenged (as of

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