ELECTION 2025: Fingerprint-tech levy renewal passing

(WSB photo – worker at High Point ballot box holding stickers offered to voters)

The voting is over and the vote-counting has begun in the April “special election.” The only measure on ballots in our area was the renewal of the levy that has funded the Automated Fingerprint Identification System for almost 40 years, starting at a rate lower than the just-expired version. The first vote count shows it passing with almost 60 percent approval:

KING COUNTY PROPOSITION 1
Approved – 151,495 – 59.72%
Rejected – 102,189 – 40.28%

17 percent of ballots were in by the time KCE did its first count. As of the latest ballot-return count, they’d received 20 percent. Next count will be out tomorrow evening.

Marcus April 22, 2025 (11:23 pm)

A little disappointing that only 60% of voting Seattle see the relationship between fingerprinting and fighting crime but that is enough to call this election a rousing majority. What really is defeating is that a whopping 40% voted the measure down😥. To me this means that methods to capture criminals are deemed too intrusive with police state and 1984 fears. But what it really means is that 40% of Seattle’s voting population are giving a pass to rapists, child abusers, murders, gun violence and yes petty crime. This is simply astounding and that 40%, in my opinion, needs to rethink their priorities.