The 2008 general election Nov. 4 in King County is putting up some really big numbers.

Turnout could reach about 85 percent of the county’s roughly 1.1 million voters, which is what elections officials were predicting before the election.

“It’s amazing,” said county elections director Sherril Huff.

A voterturnout of about 85 percent would mean that the county will have counted about 940,000 ballots at the elections headquarters in Renton when the final results are tabulated and become official by Nov. 25.

By the end of the day Monday, an estimated 86,000 ballots remained uncounted.

There are 720,585 absentee (mail-in) voters in the county and 385,380 polling-place voters. But starting next year, polls will become a choice of the past as the county moves to all-mail voting, although there will be regional polling places.

Statewide, the voter turnout in last week’s election stands at about 75 percent.

It’s the biggest one since the 2004 election, in terms of registered voters, number of ballots issued and overall turnout, according to Huff.

All those 2008 ballots in King County meant a lot of work for the roughly 500 election workers at the headquarters. In previous years, the workers were spread out in several offices in Seattle.

Another change from the 2004 election is that the voter registration rolls are “the cleanest they have ever been,” Huff said. A “huge difference” is the statewide elections database that has made it easy to track when a voter has moved to a new address, she added. “It’s remarkably different today from what it was four years ago.”

The Renton Reporter contributed to this report.