Washington election law has a mandatory recount if the difference is less than 2,000 votes *and* less than 1/2 of 1% of the total votes cast.
A candidate can request a recount at their own expense as well.
There are about 135,000 absentee ballots from King County (the Soviet of Seattle) and those are being counted now. There are, apparently, about another 120,000 absentee ballots from other parts of the state. WA breaks politically, socially and to some degree economically on the Cascade Mountains which run N/S about 90 miles east of Seattle. Eastern WA goes heavy Rep. Western WA goes heavy Dem. The issue is where those other 120K ballots come from. Wish us luck.
By the way, 1/2 of 1% in this case comes out to about 9800-9900 votes, so it just has to be under 2,000 vote difference to trigger the auto-recount.
In CA, absentee votes tend to be more conservative, regardless of where they came from. What about WA?
To recount it must be closer than 2,000 votes!?!?!??!
They can manufactor more than that in a half-hour.