Tuesday Vote Count in WA & Help defend Dino Rossi!

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[alessandrofiaschi]

I'll be updating the table below throughout the day as new returns are announced. The table columns are the same as yesterday. See this post for explanation.

As I mentioned earlier, these are only estimates and projections based on the most recent available information from the Sec. of State and counties. This information has proven itself to be insufficiently reliable for making any real predictions, so I'm no longer going to call the race for either candidate at this point.

Note also that Grays Harbor is going to recount, which is expected to improve Gregoire's margin by some unknown amount.

UPDATE: An observer in Grays Harbor reports hearing from the county auditor that they expect 500 new votes for Gregoire. Apparently the auditor thinks they "might have counted a batch of votes twice". [so now they're going to count the batch a third time? -- Ed.]

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at 11:22 AM

[alessandrofiaschi]

Help defend Dino Rossi

Now that the Washington Democrats are turning to selective lawsuits to get around Dino Rossi's lead in the vote count, the rest of us need to fight back to defend a fair electoral process.

Here's what you can do.

Since provisional ballot information is already being released, the Washington State Republican Party is calling voters whose ballots were challenged to inform them and give them the opportunity to respond to the challenge so their votes can be counted. Volunteers are needed today. Contact Nicole Linde at WSRP 206-575-2900, ext. 19; or mobile: 509-830-0278

[lunarbicep]

thanks,,, keep us updated

[KellyAdmirer]

So Rossi remains behind, but is projected to win? Is that still the operating assumption?

[Phyto Chems]

bttt

[Iconoclast2]

The real way to protect Rossi is to put masses of people in the offices where late-breaking ballots are "found", over and over again, to favor Demoncrats. That's the only thing that saved Florida in 2000, and so long as the white-shoe Republicans in Seattle won't take to the streets, they are at risk of becoming victims again.

[lilylangtree]

Read in today's local paper that Gregoire has slim lead over Rossi with King County 4,000 ballots yet to be counted. Keep in mind King County houses Seattle which is the most liberal leftist communist demoncRAT in the state, second only to San Francisco. Unless those 4,000 ballots are military, I doubt Rossi can surpass Gregoire. That's just my own personal opinion.

[Chronic]

The Rats will want to keep counting until they get their result. I am getting ill over this. :(

[MPB]

Unless those 4,000 ballots are military, I doubt Rossi can surpass Gregoire. That's just my own personal opinion.

Fortunately you're wrong. :) King County is just one of 39 in our wonderful state, and only 7 of those 39 counties favored Gregoire over Rossi, and 3 of those 7 were by a very slim margin.

There are still enough uncounted absentees statewide to tip the favor back to Rossi, so long as King County is prevented from manufacturing more votes from thin air..

[CWOJackson]

Cantwell last time, Rossi this time. Who next?

[cmsgop]

One of us FReepers need to run as a Democrat (hehe)

[MPB]

I find it fascinating that Grays Harbor *knows* that Gregoire's lead will *INCREASE* when they do a recount which, according to the problem they mention, should actually decrease the totals reported from that county, and thus would logically DECREASE the lead of any candidate.

The fact that they insist on doing a full rescan of all ballots rather than just rerun the reports makes me want to don my tin-foil hat and claim that it's because they snuck some more ballots onto the piles they have laying around somewhere, and only a full rescan would get those newly minted votes for Gregoire into the mix.

Unless they know that the precinct(s) that they "double counted" just happened to be ones in which Rossi had come out ahead, how would they know that Gregoire's lead would increase, a priori?

[Lexinom]

Anyone have numbers on the historical turnout incl. those who use absentee ballots? Is there a "spike" unique to King County?

[RoseofTexas]

I hate the RATS...BASTARDS! I still don't know what the final count was in NM? What ever happened with that??

[moehoward]

I hate how the local stations refer to Rossi's lead as "turning the election upside down".

[Lexinom]

WA state: a microcosm of what the libs hoped for for America.

[moehoward]

As a friend once said, "Dear, their not liberals in Seattle, their not socialists, their downright communists !"

[Not A Snowbird]

Rossi +236 at 4:16pm!

[vox_freedom]

Rossi up by 292 at 4:47PM. Yahoo!!!

But it will be cautious optimism until the final, I mean final, tally, certification, recount, etc.