[Politicalities]

Your response to my questions leads me to another. I can appreciate your point but how far must we go? How many recounts is enough and why should election rules be changed in an attempt to allow enough questionable votes to be counted to change the results?

The answer to the first part of your question -- "how many recounts is enough" -- is "as many as are provided by law". In this state, one or two: a candidate-initiated (and paid-for) hand recount, and a possible mandatory machine recount if the margin is within a certain narrow range. The answer to the second part of your question -- "why should election rules be changed" -- is "they shouldn't be". And they haven't been. RCW 29A.60.210 provides:

Whenever the canvassing board finds that there is an apparent discrepancy or an inconsistency in the returns of a primary or election, the board may recanvass the ballots or voting devices in any precincts of the county.

...and always has. If ballots have been erroneously disqualified, the law permits and has always permitted the canvassing boards to allow them.

[brazzaville]

Good evening.

You've got me, Politicalities. I surrender to your knowledge of your state's election law. No, that's not true. I never surrender, though I will retreat if necessary.

By the way, can you recall the Republicans ever going this far?

Michael Frazier