Well, maybe because this is a recount, not a recanvassing, but what is happening is a recanvassing...? Is that right or wrong?
Now, what about military absentee ballots that were mailed overseas and received late? Have those ballots been counted, or were they "mistakenly" rejected? If so, will they be recanvassed as well?
So many questions...
It sounds like they may have been legally-cast ballots from registered voters at a valid polling place. Their votes should not be discarded because COUNTY WORKERS made a stupid mistake.
Secondly, under Washington law, I believe that ballots of any kind postmarked before the voting deadline are valid, and that the date received is not an issue.
If we played their game...
We'd take all those envelopes with military ballots, or "find" them, and put a black marker over the postmark. Oops, no way to tell if they weren't mailed before the deadline. Every vote must count, right, and how dare you disenfranchise those who are willing to die for our country?
My post above on this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1302888/posts?page=209#209