CNN/AP reports Rossi (R) wins WA governor's race, beating Gregoire (D)

CNN/AP | 11/24/04

[Cableguy]

Just heard on CNN. Details to follow.

[jonrick46]

Correction: Governor elect Dino Rossi wins by 42 votes.

[jonrick46]

The Washington State Demonicrats are chanting: "Count'em! Count'em! Count'em! Count'em again! Do da handcount baby and turn the count around! That's what it is all about!

[jonrick46]

These were 941 votes that they said the machines were unable to read because the stupid voter did things like circle their vote instead of filling in the oval with a pen. Who is to say that the vote counters didn't quickly fill in the Gregoire oval before the observers could catch the change. Other ballots they said were too damaged to feed through the counting machines. Who is to say that the ballots were damaged after the first count through the machine and then hand counted again for another vote for Gregoire.

The Demonicrats are willing to spend money to do hand counts. However, they want to hand count select counties that have higher amounts of Gregoire votes. This cherry picking tactic is designed to capitalize on the margin of error in Demonicrat rich counties. This, Sam Reed, our Republican reelected Secretary of State will most likely forbid. If the Demonicrats want a hand recount, they will have to fork over $700,000+ to hand count the entire state. If they do that, they will take a huge gamble. The money could be better used for such things as the U.S. Senatorial race when Maria Cant(do)well is up for reelection in two years.

[Ann Archy]

Thank God for New Math!! Someone in the Democrat Party counted the dead vote wrong and didn't get the extra 43 votes needed!

[Libertina]

Beleive me they have already "reversed" more than a few. They sued, and "enhanced" votes their way to gaining almost 300 more votes for Gregoire and now want a "hand count." (The least accurate and most prone to cheating) If you have been following this election race it is an all out attempt to steal the governorship. Reminiscent of Floriduh - complete with rat judges who allowed the dems to personally contact voters whose absentee ballots had been declared discarded by election officials (also dems), allowed to over-ride same ELECTION OFFICIALS on which ballots SHOULD be counted, cherry pick areas to "recount," etc. Pray that we can stop them.

[ScoopandDizzy]

and a statewide hand recount has never been done, ever, in Washington state's history.

Rossi won this election fair and square. Without the liberal cheating in Seattle he'd be up by 300-400 votes.

Rossi is the Governor-elect. Don't let the Demos convince you otherwise.

[Libertina]

Every vote counts? How about OUR VOTES? WE elected Rossi - TWICE!!!

[-=Wing_0_Walker=-]

The Dems stuffed the Governorships, and I think it is 52 Governors.

[AmishDude]

IIRC, the voter divining of the idiot voters was only done in King. Presumably, the Dems have shot their wad here. If the same standard is applied across the state (it will be, the good fruit of Bush v. Gore) then Rossi will probably pick up a few votes.

They did this to their full advantage and lost. This was their best shot.

Oh, and the Kerry campaign will be shamed into paying for the WA recount.

[river rat]

Hell, D.C. is a state....

Many of its citizens have been in a total state of worthlessness and disaster for DECADES.

Semper Fi

[Theodore R.]

WA went "R" and neighboring MT went "D." IN and MO switched to "R." Didn't NH switch to "D." So there was a gain of 1 "R," right?

[Theodore R.]

If WA wanted more of the peculiar Patty Murray, why is there an indication that they may not want a second dose of Cant(do), as you describe this popular liberal?

[paulsy]

Here's an interesting little bit of history about small town Washington politics.

I ran for student body president my first year of college in Olympia in the late 1980s (I was at community college before going to Evergreen). I won by a healthy margin, and all was good.

Then, my opponent lodged a campaign saying I violated campaign rules by "mudslinging" and campaigning too close to the election booths. Mudslinging, guilty as charged. But that's just free speech. And my opponent really did look (and acted a lot) like Gaston in Beauty and the Beast. Campaigning too close? No. My sign was there long before the booth, and we took it down when we saw the booth had been placed next to it.

In response to my opponent's complaint, a committee met and found both of us guilty of mudslinging. They disqualified both of us. Then the committee appointed the person who had won student body vice president to fill my seat. This committee didn't give me any sort of hearing to defend against the charged, they met in secret. I was told about it a week or two later when I received a letter in the mail.

Of course, this vice president who backfilled my seat... was a good friend of my opponent. And sure enough, later on, this veep shifted a bunch of money from the S&A bank, tens of thousands of dollars, and from some groups who needed it, to the school "race car club". Guess who got to drive the school race car? My opponent. And, the chair of the committee that DQ'd was a friend of my opponent.

I found out later through the grapevine that this was their plan the whole time: If I win, lodge a complaint to try and toss me out, and either my opponent or the VP will take my place. Then spend the money on race car club.

It's too perfect a story now looking back on it, kind of funny in some ways and pretty small; but it wasn't so fun back then.

Anyhow, Washington politics can get pretty weird. Other things happened with student governance at Evergreen a couple of years later, and of course I was caught up in that too. It's strange how things that seem so important at one time of life don't later on.

[paulsy]

Oh, and a post script to this little tale. The ACLU actually went to bat for me and filed a lawsuit against the school to try and get me reinstated. I of course didn't know what all they stood for back then; but even now, I believe the ACLU took the right position with my case. It went through the Washington courts of appeal and actually became election case law. The issues were free speech (I won on free speech) and due process (I lost on due process because the committee had qualified immunity). My opponent(s) haven't done so well in life. I have, and that's a pretty good feeling.

[SW6906]

You have got to be the one and only Evergreen graduate on Free Republic.

Seriously.

Colleges don't get much farther left than Evergreen..........

[Hermann the Cherusker]

"Lets just count all the votes [until the Democrat wins]."

[conservativeinferno]

WA is red minus Seattle and the grunch/anarachist crowd.

[Hank Rearden]

Evergreen?

How much did the deprogramming cost you?

[jonrick46]

I hope the Demonicrats have played their hand in King County. I only hope they are not allowed to cherry pick counties in order to duplicate the tactics they used in King County. I want them to shoot their $700,000 wad for a statewide hand recount. I want them to pay dearly; not only monetarily, but in ill will felt by the entire state against a party that has ran Washington State through the ringer in many more ways than this.

Christine Gregoire is the embodiment of the corruption harbored by the DemonicRATS of Washington State. I hope she loses by two votes and has no more strings to pull except the one that tells the bus driver she is ready to get off.

[cherry]

if only Kink county is counted, and those magic votes appear, what is Rossi to do?....

does he have to then fund a full recount of the entire state?

if the Rats had stacks of ballots sitting around I see this ending badly for us....