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Eight Vote “Victory” Within The Margin of Fraud
By Matt Margolis | December 22, 2004
The latest suggests that Democrat Christine Gregoire has now won the gubernatorial race in Washington over Dino Rossi by a mere eight votes.
The head of the state Democratic Party said late Tuesday that recount results from King County give Democrat Christine Gregoire an eight-vote victory in the closest governor’s race in state history.
Neither King County nor the Republican party could confirm the hand recount results on Tuesday night. But if the Democrats’ analysis is correct, it’s a stunning reversal in the gubernatorial race, which has been hotly contested ever since election day.
Republican Dino won the first count by 261 votes and won a machine recount by 42 votes.
“We’re confident Christine Gregoire has been elected the governor of the state of Washington,” Democratic Chairman Paul Berendt said. “I believe Dino Rossi should concede.”
Something seems strange about this. I wouldn’t throw in the towel yet. Mr. Berendt thinks Rossi should concede so quickly after an unconfirmed 8 vote margin, but a 42 vote lead was something that enough money being put into recounts could beat?
A Rossi spokesperson said “It’s just too close to call,” and that Republicans are looking at the data also.
It’s just a coincidence that Democrats somehow managed to count a Democrat victory right? Eight votes? In a manual recount, I think that’s within the margin of fraud.
Berendt and Democratic party officials reached their conclusion after crunching numbers supplied by King County. The county has finished tallying its 900,000 ballots, but election officials said they still need to reconcile differences in the precinct totals.
See, this is where this whole thing gets fuzzy. Democrats “crunched numbers.”
That’s not enough to convince me. Why on earth would Berendt want Rossi to concede when the results haven’t been truly finalized? Does Berendt and the Democratic party not want these results to scrutinized? Did they toss in just enough ballots to skim a victory?
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December 22nd, 2004 at 12:36 am
I agree with you 100 percent. This stinks to high heaven. She should have won by a landslide in the first vote if the same Washingtonians that voted for Kerry and Patty Murray had voted for her. They didn’t though. What does that say? There are A LOT of people in this state that do not want her as governor. She should have conceded after the first count.
December 22nd, 2004 at 12:46 am
can’t trust them.. under no circumstances…
December 22nd, 2004 at 8:06 am
Waaaahhhh! Stop whining and grow up, losers. Rossi lost! To borrow a pharse “GET OVER IT!”
December 22nd, 2004 at 5:48 pm
Well actually, with so many NEW votes being” discovered” - another recount is in order.
December 22nd, 2004 at 6:32 pm
discovered… created… found… whatever you’d like to call those votes…
December 23rd, 2004 at 12:45 am
Matt exactly. I guess I just didn’t phrase it correctly.
December 23rd, 2004 at 8:40 am
A 43-vote margin in favor of Rossi is “literally a tie” according to the Gregoire campaign, but an 8-vote margin favoring Gregoire is a clear victory.
Yeah, clear like mud.
Ask either candidate if they’d mind scrapping the whole thing and holding a new election. Guess who’d be the one to object to that.
“We can’t do that. All the bullshit we’ve pulled has pissed of so many people, there’s no way we could win now.”
December 23rd, 2004 at 9:05 am
Start Your Engines
Matt Margolis has two whines here and here. Not one for understatement, Matt offers, without any proof that, “in a manual recount, I think that’s within the margin of fraud.”
December 24th, 2004 at 1:14 pm
You really should mention that our Secretary of State, Sam Reed, is a REPUBLICAN, and has overseen every stage of the recount process, and agrees that the new ballots are valid and should be counted. Otherwise, people might think that you were not being “fair and balanced.”