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TUKWILA — The state Republican Party said in court papers filed yesterday that it has found 300 illegal votes and more than 400 that can't be verified in the governor's election. With Christine Gregoire winning the governor's race by 129 votes, Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance says he now has found far more than enough evidence to persuade a judge to nullify the election and call for a rematch between Gregoire and Republican Dino Rossi. Lawyers and Republican staffers are continuing to look county by county for votes cast by felons, in the name of dead people or by people...

There were two deadlines for voter registration before the November 2, 2004 election: Mail-in registrations were due on Oct 2. In-person registration was still permissible through Oct. 18. Voters who missed the Oct. 2 deadline but registered by the 18th could only vote absentee. Anybody who missed the Oct. 18 deadline was not eligible to vote on Nov. 2. Along these lines here's an interesting phenomenon in the King County voter list. In the Dec. 29 version of the list, there are 70 voters who registered between 10/3 and 10/18. 4 are recorded as voting absentee, 66 are recorded as...

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OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington Republicans, considering whether to challenge Democrat Christine Gregoire's razor-thin victory for governor, yesterday demanded a list of the 900,000 who cast ballots in vote-rich, problem-plagued King County. [snip] "We're mostly posing questions," Vance said. "King County is where we saw the votes changing. King County is the one county that was allowed to take ballots that were declared dead in November and bring them back to life in December." He stopped short of committing to a challenge of the election results.

Gregoire(D) 1,373,051 +609 Rossi(R) 1,373,041 +557 Results not final ******** Don’t call her Gov. Gregoire – yet Final recount puts Democrat ahead by 130, but Rossi and GOP plan to appeal outcome KENNETH P. VOGEL; The News Tribune Last updated: December 24th, 2004 02:40 AM Democrat Christine Gregoire sealed an extraordinary come-from-behind 130-vote victory in the third and final count in the governor’s race Thursday. But Republican Dino Rossi, winner of the first two counts, refused to concede. His supporters expressed outrage over the results and laid the groundwork to challenge them. Washington’s first statewide hand recount concluded Thursday when...

With all the votes tallied after a recount in the roller coaster race for governor, Christine O. Gregoire, the Democrat who trailed in the campaign and in a previous recount, won by 130 votes as battered Republicans demanded more vote counting and vowed to use every legal weapon to reverse the extraordinary turnaround. The Republican candidate, Dino Rossi, 45, won the Nov. 2 election in the initial count by 261 votes and a machine recount by 42 votes. But a statewide hand recount completed Thursday gave Ms. Gregoire, 57, a microscopic but notable lead out of the 2.9 million votes...

After losing the first two counts in Washington's closest-ever race for governor, it appears Democrat Christine Gregoire has pulled even with — or possibly overtaken — Republican Dino Rossi on the final day of a contentious statewide manual recount. King County, the last to complete the recount, is not expected to release new vote totals until this afternoon. But state Democratic Party Chairman Paul Berendt said last night the party's calculations indicate that, with virtually all of the votes tallied, Gregoire is ahead by eight votes. "Based on the data we've received, we're confident she's taken the lead," Berendt said.

Democrats: Gregoire wins by 8 votes Election officials dismiss claim as premature By CHRIS McGANN AND CHRISTINE FREY SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTERS Democrat Christine Gregoire will defeat Republican Dino Rossi by eight votes in the governor's race recount when King County reports results today, state Democratic Party Chairman Paul Berendt said last night. "We are absolutely confident that she is going to be the next governor of the state of Washington," Berendt said. Both parties have been provided with daily tallies of the county's manual recount. Berendt said those updates and results from the county canvassing board's review of unclear ballots...

Wednesday, December 15, 2004 Count votes that count SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD The Washington Supreme Court Tuesday reached a unanimous and sound decision in rejecting the Democratic Party's request to effectively alter state election law by judicial fiat. It is, of course, impossible to know which gubernatorial candidate would have profited had the court ordered all 39 counties to include in the hand recount ballots that had been previously rejected. Democrats presumably believed the change would have benefited their candidate, Christine Gregoire. But it doesn't matter who would have benefited (this newspaper endorsed Democrat Gregoire). The justices' reading of the...