WA State Governors Race Update
UPDATE: KOMO-TV has the story - it seems that this ruling addresses about 3,000 ballots that were "wrongly rejected" and it does not affect the 561 ballots in King County
Sigh...
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Some good news in the hand recount.
The WA State Supreme Court unanimously tossed out a request from the Democrats to submit an additional 561 ballots that they 'found' in King County.
More from
Sound Politics,
The Seattle Times and the
Court Ruling.
From the
Seattle Times article by David Postman:
bq. The state Supreme Court this morning unanimously rejected the Democratic Party's recount lawsuit and will not order election officials to reconsider thousands of previously rejected ballots.
bq. The court, echoing the position of Secretary of State Sam Reed and Republican lawyers, said Washington state law makes clear that a recount should "retabulate" votes already counted and that county canvassing boards cannot be ordered to look again at ballots thrown out during the first two tallies.
bq. The eight of nine justices who attended yesterday's emergency session to hear oral arguments on the case also said there was no call for the court to mandate a statewide standard for signature checking of absentee and provisional ballots.
Posted by DaveH at December 14, 2004 12:09 PM