Live Trial Diary on Daily Kos...

One of our members (Kos username: archerhouse) is posting updates to a live trial diary on Daily Kos. You can go there to follow developments in the trial. We will update here as well, but more slowly than he will be updating, and with less detail, although we will offer more commentary on the overall progress of the trial.

NWPT48

Republican attorney Dale Foreman has a new claim he's whisked out of his sleeve:

"This is a case of election fraud," GOP attorney Dale Foreman said in his opening statement. "This election was stolen from the legal voters of this state by a bizarre combination of illegal voters and bungling bureaucrats."

Foreman surprised the court with a new claim, saying Republicans will prove that Democrats stole the election by stuffing the ballot box in Gregoire's two strongest precincts, and "losing" votes in two of Republican Dino Rossi's strongest precincts.

"The King County data shows partisan bias and not random error," Foreman said. "If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck."

Now Foreman is starting to sound like Stefan Sharkansky and his rag tag chorus over at UnSoundPolitics. Stolen election, indeed. They won't be able to prove their absurd claim of ballot box stuffing.

David Postman of the Seattle Times is publishing dispatches from the Chelan County courtoom:

[Democratic lawyer] Hamilton attacked the Republicans' fraud claim by saying the party has not tried to collect hard evidence of the allegations. He said Republicans have not deposed any polling place inspectors or observers about claims of ballot fraud. Nor have they done an independent count of ballots or envelopes in King County to answer questions about discrepancies in the count.

The Democrats are now making their opening statement at the time of this update.