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Staff at Skagit County’s election office had counted all but 700 of the 55,367 ballots cast for this fall’s election by Monday afternoon, reported David Cunningham, election supervisor for the county auditor. The count is essentially done, Cunningham explained. State law requires holding a pool of ballots to blend late arriving mail ballots into, thus retaining confidentiality of those last votes. “Duplicated ballots are being worked on now,” Cunningham said in a phone interview Monday. “They cannot be counted for one reason or another,” so dup...