Measures lag in election return

See page 4 for a complete listing of the first

election counts.

First count for Tuesday's general election shows Pullman's $29 million hospital proposal and the county roads levy lid lift proposal both lagging. The first count of the ballots on election night totaled just 3,020 ballots with approximately 4,000 more ballots in the stack to count and more expected to be in the pipeline.

The Pullman Hospital proposal, which failed last April because it failed to meet turnout requirement, booked 1,147 votes in the first count and the tally was below the 60 percent approval mark at 59.7 percent wit...