Governor's race recount: Votes by county

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[Publius]

Former Secretary of State Pushes for New Vote

[zbigreddogz]

Umm, we got Dashle by beating up on his liberalism in a very conservative state. I don't see how beating up on Cantwell's liberalism is going to defeat her in a liberal state.

If Rossi loses, which still isn't sure at all, I'd honestly rather him run for Governor again in 4 years. He won (even if he 'loses') by attacking Olympia and downplaying social issues, which Washington is very liberal on. He wouldn't be able to do either easily in a race against Cantwell.

[zbigreddogz]

Also, the R's don't control the State House, they control the State Senate till the new Senators are sworn in. And a special session would have to be called, and the Dem House would have to pass it, and Gary Locke would have to sign it.

i.e. not even remotely possible.

[elder5]

If Rossi loses then don't we get to have a recount or two or three?

[sionnsar]

King County has not reported in yet. They're waiting to see how many votes they need to produce for Gregoire.

[OverTaxedFatherofFour]

To withstand the King County onslaught, Dino would have to have padded his lead in counties that he had won to begin with. The counties that he won are finding more votes for the RAT. I understand that 42 plus 1 = 43. But you have to understand that 43/King County =

[sionnsar]

4. Going away present from the R's in House. Bill requireing tax increases to get a 7/8 majority in the house. Bill making that bill repealable by a 7/8 majority.

The legislature is not in session.

[Heavyrunner]

Short story is that Rossi(R) won the governorship by 196ish votes...Very close, considering 3.5 million were tallied.

This kicked off a mandatory machine recount by Washington State Law. The results of the machine recount dropped Rossi's lead to 42 votes, but he was still the winner.

The election was certified and Rossi announced Governor-elect.

The democrats aided by a large contribution from the Kerry campaign then paid for a statewide HAND recount.

Over the course of this third recount, new ballots seem to be surfacing...Until two days ago, the ballots turning up generally favored Rossi, but suddenly a comparatively very LARGE block of "previously uncounted valid" ballots turned up in the heavily democratic (and most populous) King County.

These votes will swing the election if counted against Rossi. Since there were two previous recount, and a variety of legal shenanigans involved in the interim, a Rossi governorship is now in serious doubt.

There are three possible scenarios.

1) One candidate will concede based upon the results of this recount.
2) The SCOWS will award a Gregoire(D) victory by allowing the 700ish newly discovered ballots to be counted
3) The result will be muddled or too close to definitively elect a winner, in which case the democrat-held legislature will choose the state's next governor...A fait accompli for the Gregoire campaign.

As a WA resident, unless the recount falls decisively to Rossi a third time (unlikely) I have to say that things look grim now.

[BJungNan]

Thank you very much. You should turn that post in as an article to the local newspaper. They could use clear, concise and well written accounts like that. :)

[Recall]

One more thing..the Republican went to court over the 700 plus newly discovered ballots. The Judege said "newly discovered" isn't the same as "recounted" as they haven't been counted before. She said they can't be counted.

This will be appealed by Democrats.

It's nerve-wracking and I'm not there either ..I'm following it from Virginia.

[BJungNan]

700 plus newly discovered ballots.

How do they "discover" 700 ballots?

[Recall]

LOL..beats me.

Here's the thread on 573 of the discovered ones. Then they
found 22 down the sides of some voting boots and I forget
the rest..they just keep multiplying like bunny rabbits.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1301674/posts