WA governor: Gregoire (D) now leads by *13 votes*

[Newsjock]

http://www.komotv.com/elections/race1003.htm

Christine GREGOIRE
1,370,967
48%

Dino ROSSI
1,370,954
48%

Ruth BENNETT
63,327
2%

[noamnety]

1. too close for comfort!

what now, does that trigger another count? are there absentee ballots?

[noamnety]

2. oops, what I meant to say:

13 votes?! Sounds like a mandate to me!

[Sanity Claws]

3. Recount

The recount starts on Saturday. I read it on the website for komo4, a local Seattle TV station.

[Carolab]

4. Is it a MANUAL recount?

n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. There'll be an automatic recount

Hope her lead stands. Rossi campaigned as a moderate when he's nothing but a lackey for the real estate industry. Look for lax enforcement of enviromental laws and the growth management act if he gets in.

[Carolab]

7. Automatic means

a manual HAND count of ballots?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Automatic means a margin less than 2000

However when the margin is less than 150 the recount has to be manual.

http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_111704WABelections_governorJM.661728b2.html

[ahimsa]

9. Machine recount first..

..then if it's still less than 50 (I think) votes apart, they'll do a manual recount.

Btw, the totals are now:

 Dino ROSSI          1,371,414 48% 
 Christine GREGOIRE  1,371,153 48% 
 Ruth BENNETT           63,346  2% 

[fearnobush]

6. Wow, she was down 19 votes a few hours ago.

Imagine that.

[JetCityLiberal]

10. Rossi Just on TV...

to say he won by 261 votes pending a recount.

As said before the machine recount will start Saturday and is expected to be completed by Wed the 24th just before Thanksgiving.

Sure hope the vote swing more than 262 to Gregoire.

Rossi is slime, but we have the House and Senate that would keep him hopefully in line.

Both got 48.87%, sure as hell no MANDATE if rossi gets in like the repubs spew about.

JetCityLiberal