Court Rejects Washington Democrats Recount Lawsuit

The Washington Supreme Court has issued an order rejecting the petition of the Washington State Democratic Party to order a reexamination of previously disqualified absentee and provisional ballots in the recount for Washington’s gubernatorial election.

The Associated Press reports the court said that under Washington law, “ballots are to be ‘retabulated’ only if they have been previously counted or tallied” thereby excluding those ballots that had been disqualified by canvassing boards.

From California Yankee.

Elections Director: "Absentee Ballots Mistakenly Rejected"

The Associated Press reports that the Elections Director in Seattle’s King County said Monday that hundreds of absentee ballots were mistakenly rejected in the heavily Democratic County:

Logan said election workers mistakenly rejected 561 absentee ballots because they thought signatures on the ballots did not match original voter registration records.

However, he said that the signatures simply were not on file in the county’s computerized voter registration system and that original registration records should have been checked.

“We need to correct the error and count those votes,” Logan said in a statement.

From California Yankee.

Republican Dino Rossi Certified As Winner Of Washington's Gubernatorial Election

The Associated Press reports that Dino Rossi was certified as the winner of Washington’s race for governor, but the contest isn’t over:

“A recount is almost a certainty,” said Secretary of State Sam Reed, the state’s chief elections officer.

Reed declared Rossi defeated Democrat Christine Gregoire by just 42 votes out of 2.8 million cast. But on Friday, the Democrats are expected to request a hand recount of some or all of the ballots. That could extend the uncertainty until Christmas.

From California Yankee.

It's official, Dino Rossi has won

The closest governor’s race is now at end. The Secretary of State has certified Dino Rossi as the winner of the 2004 Governorship Election for the State of Washington. He won over Attorney General Gregoire (who works in Vancouver where I live) by 261 votes. Of course, under Washington State law if the vote is less than a 2,000 vote margin, there must be a mandatory recount. Now I’m expecting the Democrats in my state to get into a fit over this.

Meanwhile, I’m glad that Dino Rossi won. Because I know Gregoire’s reputation and it’s not that great to me. My friend used to work for her office and he was fired for wrong reasons. Thus giving me one of the reasons to vote against Gregoire for the Governorship. Plus the Democrats have too long controlled the governorship of Washington and I feel that there needs to be a change to a Republican Governorship which there hasn’t been one since 25 years ago.

Now, I would assume Lonewacko will go find some DU stuff about “Irregularities” in the Washington State Governorship. As I’m assuming he has the notion that all elections are perfect but 2004/0 and there has been no history of voter fraud. Psst, my mother works for the election in Washington State. And as evident by his blog, I’m assuming he’s going to keep doing the “Irregularities” post going until Bush is sworn in.

Funny thing about Washington’s Election was that Clark County had a history of voting for Democrats overwhelmingly over Republicans but this election proved that otherwise. Since that most Republicans are in the country area surrounding Vancouver/East Side vs the Democrats in the cities/North/West/South Side

2000 Election Locke won Clark County 54.2-43.3, Bush won 49.6-45.6
2004 Election (See Clark County)
Rossi won 52-44, Bush won 52-46

So it was quite a turnaround from a Leaning Democrat County to a Leaning Republican County.

The Race for the Governorship of Washington

Well, I’m a resident of the state of Washington yet I live in Idaho for college (Brigham Young University-Idaho). I’ve been paying attention to the governorship of Washington. Currently Dino Rossi is up by 3,500+ votes. The last 5 days before yesterday, Gregoire was winning by 10,000+ votes plenty of times and I thought the race was over. But until yesterday, Dino Rossi was up by 2,000+ votes and now he’s at 3,500+ votes. This is a close election that’s still on-going.

Who did I vote for? I voted for Dino Rossi so I’m hoping he wins.

Stay tuned

Governor's Race Goes Into Extra Innings

The Washington Governor’s race is still incredibly tight (at one point they were only 32 votes apart) and there are still quite a few absentee ballots to be counted.

Between absentee ballots and recounts this one could take a few days to resolve, but so far everyone is being civil about it.

Washington: Kerry/Murray - Governor's race tight

It should come as no surprise that Washington State looks to be going for Kerry. The margin is only 5% right now, but relatively conservative Eastern Washington looks to be overrepresented in the current numbers and I expect Kerry’s lead to widen as more of Western Washington checks in.

Patty Murray (D) is one her way to another term, by a surprising margin (double digits, despite the fact that Nethercutt’s base looks to be overrepresented in the current numbers.

The Governor’s race is a lot tighter. Gregoire (D) was slightly ahead of Rossi the last time I checked but the lead seems to be see-sawing and the margin is small.

Fights abrewing in Vancouver, Washington

Well, I was talking to my father earlier today and he had to volunteer for security work at the Elementary School in our voting area. This is funny since Washington has always been a Democrat State since Reagan. Now the problem was there was fights over “Voter Suppression” “Voter Frauds” and etc. My father volunteered to work there to quell problems among the voters. Cops replaced my father when he had to go work at Portland AFB.

I’m sitting here going “Geez who fights over this crap in Washington, must have been lunatics”