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Thursday, December 16, 2004

Gregoire gets huge boost

Snohomish County report slices and dices Rossi lead

Surprise! Snohomish County has just this afternoon reported results for the manual recount. The recount in that county's hand recount produced 118 new votes for Christine Gregoire, and 75 for Dino Rossi, cutting down his lead by 43 votes. And the word is out that Pierce County will give votes to Gregoire when it reports, as well.

Thanks to the Snohomish County surprise, and assuming Spokane and Pierce don't give too many votes to Rossi, King County should easily be able to reverse the Rossi lead and make Christine Gregoire the next governor of Washington State.

Meanwhile, the Republicans are suing over 573 votes discovered in King County, trying to ensure those ballots aren't counted. The Republicans' shell has fallen off, and we can see them for what they truly are. They are arrogant, greedy people who will stop at nothing to win. They cannot criticize the Democrats' litigation any longer because they are now the ones filing a lawsuit. Even without the 573, it's likely King County could still hand the election to Gregoire. ChairmanVance is running out of options.

This is why we are doing a hand recount. Because the results are different. And we need to count as many votes as we can.

Stay tuned. We will bring you the latest developments in the race.

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