Washington state recount - Please rate Yahoo story

[burythehatchet]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&e=3&u=/ap/20041216/ap_on_el_gu/washington_governor_s_race

SEATTLE - The King County Canvassing Board decided Wednesday to begin the process of verifying 573 newly discovered absentee ballots that could change the outcome of Washington's extremely close race for governor.

The board has yet to decide whether any of those ballots will be counted, but its move was a victory for Democratic candidate Christine Gregoire, who trailed Republican Dino Rossi by 42 votes after a machine recount.

King County, which includes Seattle, is a Democratic stronghold that is expected to be the last of the state's 39 counties to complete a hand recount of all ballots. The recount is expected to be finished Dec. 22.

[Verve]

1. Done! 4.22 with 85 votes n/t

[Straight Shooter]

2. And yet, still MORE ballots discovered

County Elections Director Dean Logan said he believes most of the 573 ballots belong to valid, registered voters.

Still to be decided was the fate of 22 other newly discovered ballots. They were found in several polling places in the side bins of plastic bases in which polling machines sit, said Bill Huennekens, county election superintendent.

State Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance urged the canvassing board not to count the newly discovered ballots.

"None of these ballots should be counted," Vance said. "At the very least, the King County canvassing board needs to slow down and figure out what's going on with these ballots."

Oh, the whining, pewling, hysterical Vance. He is the archetype of the Republican in power.

[texpatriot2004]

3. Gee, who's playing hid and seek with the ballots? How many

more ballots are there just waiting to be found?

Rethugs have no problems when the ballots are in their favor, did you notice?

[molly]

4. 97 votes - 4.34