Posted on 11/17/2004 4:44:42 PM PST by TheConservator
This is a LIVE THREAD for discussion of the impending certification of final results in the Washington State Governor's race, between Dino Rossi (R) and Christine Gregoire (D).
The Secretary of State is required to certify the final results this evening. As of 4:28 P.M. PST, Gregoire leads by 29 votes with 2521 votes from 4 or 5 counties left to be reported. King County (the Dem's stronghold) has apparently made its final report.
Washington State law requires a machine recount if the certified results show a difference of less than 2000, which now seems almost certain. It also requires a manual recount if the difference is less than 150 votes. A machine recount is estimated to take a week, a hand recount a month or more.
If the final result were a tie, the winner would be decided by lot.
Can you imagaine if WA were the swing state for the presidential election? What an embarassing mess.
It's a statewide race, not a national race, so dealines are not important. Not even in the same ballpark as Florida 2000.
yes, we wouldn't want anyone to be disenfranchised, would we? (except maybe the military vote). I've wondered how many people had even heard or used the word 'disenfranchised' before the 2000 election (my guess, not that many that have used it since the 2000 election night).
"so dealines are not important"
I hope that was sarcasm...
Hello, Benton County? Anybody home????
benton county elections supervisor: susie.christopher@co.benton.wa.us
benton county auditor:
bobbie.gagner@co.benton.wa.us
if only 250 out in benton & current % holds
rossi by 95 votes
on 250 votes rossi must get 52.8% of vote to win by 1 vote
that would require a 15% drop in rossi current % total
if 750 votes outstanding
rossi by 272 votes
YEAH, really....we're holding our breath here....
Well stop holding your breath and call Sam Reed's office and give him your vote total. :-)
Is there a time deadline? Is it possible the "count every vote" people will say "Sorry! You didn't get it in by 6:00 p.m.!"
Hell, they're government employees, everyone left at 5, we're just all sitting here with our you know whats in our hand and they're not even there.
if only 250 out in benton & current % holds
rossi by 95 votes
on 250 votes rossi must get 52.8% of vote to win by 1 vote
that would require a 15% drop in rossi current % total
if 750 votes outstanding
rossi by 272 votes
on 750 votes rossi must get 50.93% of vote to win by 1 vote
that would require a 17% drop in rossi current % total
just tuned in...What is happening? Can someone post a quick summary? If the republican wins by 250+, is it over? Or will their be a recount regardless?
Why in the heck is it taking Benton Co. so long to count a few hundred ballots?!? The elections supervisor should be fired. Election day was more than 2 weeks ago. This is not a huge county. Really pathetic.
Sent an e-mail now
261!
YAHOO!!!! Channel 2 - NW News just reported that Rossi won by 261 votes!!!!!!!!!!! Auto recount - not manual
YAHOO!!!! Channel 2 - NW News just reported that Rossi won by 261 votes!!!!!!!!!!! Auto recount - not manual
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