Breaking NWCN (WA) : Gregoire now officially ahead by 10 votes.

[Mike Niendorff]

breaking, no link yet.

Gregoire : +47
Rossi : -12

Net gain for Gregoire from King County : +59

Note that this does NOT include the 723 uncounted KC ballots, which will probably expand this lead :)

update : Dean Logan (King County Elections Director) has also just stated that, of the 723 disputed KC ballots, they have already found signatures on file for at least 600 of them.

further update : it's up now on their site -- http://www.nwcn.com


MDN

[MissB]

1. Yipeee!!! congrats Gov. Gregoire! (nt)

[Daisey Mae]

2. Great News.....

Hope the lead holds......

[pa28]

3. Follow your own advice Rossi. Concede. eom

[gratuitous]

14. Yup, Dino should be up any second now

To give his concession speech. What about it, Mr. Rossi? Good for goose, good for the gander right?

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. WA Supreme Court says : Count the ballots!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=184x2595

[diddlysquat]

5. Now let's hope those 723 votes go the right way.

I was listening to NW News all afternoon and the achors kept calling the State Supreme Courts decision to count the 723 votes a decision in "favor of the Democrats". someone called in and said it was actually a "decision in favor of the voters". Well said but you could tell the newswoman didn't like that at all.

[LisaL]

6. That's too bad she didn't like it.

:nopity:
Of course it's in favor of the voters-there is absolutely nothing wrong with these ballots, voters had done everything correctly.
It's the officials who were supposed to count these ballots who screw up-why should the voters be punished for something they didn't do?

[Mike Niendorff]

9. However they go, I think this process has been handled correctly.

I'm impressed that WA Dems have had the backbone to stick with it and fight it out, especially considering the hostile/pro-Republican media spin they've been faced with. This is the right process, whatever the outcome.


MDN

[pa28]

17. The RW spin machine has been hard at work.

Last night Dan Lewis reported on a "poll" conducted by the Republican Governors Association (which funneled millions to Rossi's campaign).

Should the Governor's race be decided by:

A: The courts
B: The Legislature
C: A Re-Vote

Accepting the results was not a choice and 50% said "C".

When the media disseminates garbage like this with a straight face I can understand why we have such a hard time getting our message out.

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. This is going to raise the ire of the goddamn rw.

When are they going to send in james baker to fix it?

[noiretextatique]

8. fantastic news...

:bounce: thanks for sharing it.

[oldtime dfl_er]

10. Governor Gregoire

has such a nice ring to it. And yes, the repukes will litigate, beg, steal , cry , whatever . But we are not backing down at this point!! Kudos to everyone for sticking with it, contributing for the recount, and most of all for believing that EVERY VOTE COUNTS.

[Thurston Howell IV]

11. 25% increase!

She's rockin'.

[cal04]

12. Wash. Recount Shows Gregoire Ahead by 10:Her margin could grow

More than seven weeks after the election, Democrat Christine Gregoire took the lead in Washington's governor's race Wednesday, gaining a 10-vote advantage over Republican Dino Rossi after King County officials announced results of a hand recount.

Her margin could grow wider with a state Supreme Court decision Wednesday that requires more than 700 belatedly discovered King County ballots to be counted. The results likely will be challenged in court


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041223/ap_on_re_us/governor_recount

[merwin]

13. Please un-freeper that article! Rate it a 5 n/t

[Mike Niendorff]

15. done.

[Rose Siding]

16. It's haunting to scroll through the list of names...

People who believed they voted but weren't counted -like they didn't exist.

http://www.nwcn.com/sharedcontent/northwest/frame/frames.jsp?url=/sharedcontent/northwest/elections/washington/561voters.html

[goforit]

18. LOL!!!!.........This is just too funny.

[CHIMO]

19. Gee Whiz

After hearing that the other candidate won twice!

Now if New Mexico could do a proper count...