* I am continuing yesterday's table with blow-by-blow coverage of the recount reports. Scroll down, or visit this page
* King County vote counters have surgically enhanced 710 previously rejected ballots after county officials divined the voter's intent. [Are they using divining rods or do they have a haruspex on the canvassing board? -- Ed.]
Meanwhile [from the above linked article] Losertarian gubernatorial candidate Ruth Bennett (2nd from right) watches closely to make sure that all of her ballots are counted and that she's not robbed of victory.
* Snohomish County has discovered 224 brand new magical mystery ballots that weren't counted the first time. Snohomish has a Democrat administration but also voted for Rossi (in the first count) with a 2% margin. A random sample of of 224 Snohomish ballots would add 4-5 votes to Rossi's lead. On the other hand, most of these ballots were from precincts that favored Gregoire. Unfortunately, nobody seems to know whether these were valid ballots or "provisional ballots that needed checking".
* Tim Goddard has an interesting and well-researched analysis of the recount numbers, that takes into account the voting technology used in each county. Among other things, it helps explain why Adams, Kittitas and Walla Walla counties all had larger changes in the recount than other counties -- all three use the same sucky technology. Now if only Tim's analysis, as good as it is, could also be enhanced to predict all of the human folly and error, like the 224 magical mystery ballots in Snohomish and the 710 surgically enhanced haruspex ballots in King.
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Dear fellow Republicans, we must avoid a big fraud, expecially in King County (Seattle)! Alessandro