[Libertarianize the GOP]

I never cared for Slade either but he was better the Cantwell. Did you watch the returns as absentee ballots were counted? Counties that Slade won gave a majority of the last batch of ballots they counted to Maria. There were not enough votes in the last batch of King County ballots to reverse the vote count. If you remember Slade had been leading up until the final batch of absentees were counted. For so many Counties that Slade had won to have their final batch of ballots be so unrepresentative of their overall returns is mathematically extremely unlikely.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

I didn't watch the returns, but I do remember that Slade was in the lead going into the absentee ballot count. Because convention wisdom says absentees usually favor the Republican, I figured he'd squeak by, but I thought it was a big batch of King County absentees that put Cantvotewell over the top. I wasn't aware of her winning absentees in counties that she lost at the polling booths. My first impression is that massive vote fraud with our absentee ballots would take a lot of effort.