We received this email last night:

Today, five days after my husband received his absentee ballot in the mail, I hadn't received mine.  I called the King County Elections Office and was told that my ballot had been held because I had supposedly failed to reply to a jury summons.  In these cases, the voter's current address is considered questionable.  The woman on the phone verified my address and said it was no problem, that my ballot would be mailed soon.

She had no further details about the jury summons.  Since I always reply to jury summons and knew that I hadn't received one in the past year, I felt concerned.  To clear things up, I immediately called the King County Superior Court.  However, their records also indicate that I have not been summoned.

Next I called Seattle Municipal Courts.  They also verified that I haven't been summoned.  The woman there said that it wouldn't have mattered since they don't share info like this with the elections office.  However, she was surprised to hear from me because yesterday she had spoken with a different woman with the same story as me.

Now I am just confused about why my ballot was held.

Meanwhile, we forgot to report two other Fizz items:

1) Rating all the mayoral candidates on downtown priorities, the Downtown Seattle Association (the downtown business lobby) likes Greg Nickels and Jan Drago best. The PI.com's Joel Connelly wrote up a report about the DSA scorecard.

2) King County Superior Court will rule on Friday whether or not former KIRO-TV anchor, King County Executive candidate Susan Hutchison, has to unseal files from her anti-discrimination suit against KIRO. The Seattle Times is suing to have the files unsealed. The Seattle Times has the story .