BREAKING: GREGOIRE WINS!
King County has certified its results, and we have a winner!:
This from the AP:
As one who voted for Dino Rossi, I think it's time for the Republicans to pack up and move on. Chris Vance needs to put a cork in his verbal tirades and quit beating a political horse that is now dead.
Perpetuating the notion that this election was somehow stolen from Rossi, Vance is still insisting that he'll pursue every course possible, thereby dragging the whole process on further.
Vance should know that casting about with flimsy claims that military voters were somehow aced out, or that canvassing boards can stuff the genie back in the bottle, does nothing but further alienate people who are already fed up with how this whole election mess evolved.
The system worked the way it's supposed to, no matter how many are upset by the final results. Dino Rossi should concede and Chris Vance should pipe down.
It's over. Christine Gregoire is the now governor-elect. The law doesn't allow any more recounts. The Republicans should stop their tirade and accept the results.
Democrat Christine Gregoire has won Washington's race for governor by 130 votes, with King County's final hand-recount tally complete.So it's over. And it's time to move on. Christine Gregoire has won the governor's race. Rossi should concede immediately. This is the final recount: there isn't going to be another one. Speaking of which, Progressive Majority Washington is asking you to join them in asking Rossi to concede.
The county accepted 565 of the 732 additional ballots as having valid signatures -- 311 went for Gregoire and 191 for Rossi. The others either went for Ruth Bennett or didn't have a vote for governor or the person marked multiple candidates.
Election officials from Seattle's King County convened Thursday to begin counting 732 mistakenly discarded ballots that have widened Democrat Christine Gregoire's lead in Washington's incredibly tight race for governor.
This from the AP:
Most auditors statewide have decided not to reconsider rejected ballots, said Corky Mattingly, Yakima County's auditor and president of the Washington State Association of County Auditors.And Ken Schram is calling on Dino Rossi to concede in his latest commentary:
The auditors agree with Republican Secretary of State Sam Reed, Mattingly said, that state law prohibits counties from recanvassing after their results have been certified.
"This is the end," Mattingly said Thursday. "You don't just keep recertifying and recertifying."
Republicans have also accused King County of failing to send absentee ballots to military voters or sending them too late, and they want that mistake corrected, too.
Logan said all absentee ballots were sent out on time, including those to military voters.
"You will continue to hear accusations of fraud, of changing rules, of manufactured votes," Logan said Thursday, addressing rumors that have been flying on local blogs and talk radio. "I believe the record shows most of these allegations, if not all of them, are totally untrue."
As one who voted for Dino Rossi, I think it's time for the Republicans to pack up and move on. Chris Vance needs to put a cork in his verbal tirades and quit beating a political horse that is now dead.
Perpetuating the notion that this election was somehow stolen from Rossi, Vance is still insisting that he'll pursue every course possible, thereby dragging the whole process on further.
Vance should know that casting about with flimsy claims that military voters were somehow aced out, or that canvassing boards can stuff the genie back in the bottle, does nothing but further alienate people who are already fed up with how this whole election mess evolved.
The system worked the way it's supposed to, no matter how many are upset by the final results. Dino Rossi should concede and Chris Vance should pipe down.
It's over. Christine Gregoire is the now governor-elect. The law doesn't allow any more recounts. The Republicans should stop their tirade and accept the results.
