think Seattle's going to "steal" the election?

From today's P-I:

New voters are registering in King County at a rate well above 10,000 a month [...] The county's rolls included just under 1,041,000 voters as of Friday. The all-time high is the 1,082,406 voters registered for the 2004 general election, the last time races for president and governor appeared on the ballot.

More than 30 percent of the state's voters are registered in King County. The statewide total was just under 3,430,000 Friday, compared with the record of 3,508,208 in 2004.

Per Wikipedia, the census bureau estimated in 2006 that King has a population of 1,835,300 and Washington overall has 6,395,798 - which puts King at 28.7% of the state's population - and means we do have a higher proportion of registered voters than population.

That would also mean King has over 50% of its population registered. (Of course, those under 18 can't vote, so there's a certain amount of those in the total population that can't register.)

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