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The judge presiding over the election challenge in Washington State will issue a ruling this coming Monday, the Seattle Times reports. (Hat tip: reader Anthony J.)
According to the Times, Republicans have been arguing “that illegal votes cast in any given precinct should be deducted from each candidate’s total by the same proportion as the overall [...]

They are still finding uncounted ballots in Washington state from last fall’s gubernatorial election. (Hat tip: Gerry at Daly Thoughts)
Related: According to the King County Journal, Dino Rossi is ruling out a run for U.S. Senate against inumbent Democrat Maria Cantwell in 2006. He was considered the GOP’s best hope. (Hat tip: Doverspa at Red [...]

One of the ballots not counted in last fall’s election in Washington State belonged to Lt. Bryan Suits, a National Guardsman who recently returned from Iraq. Sound Politics has the story. When Suits isn’t serving his country in Iraq he is a conservative radio talk show host on KVI-AM in Seattle. (Hat tip: Brian Eirik [...]

Lots of developments in Washington State regarding last fall’s contested gubernatorial election:
- Former U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton joined the call for a criminal investigation.
- King County election officials admitted that a key document accounting for absentee ballots is bogus. Blogger Stefan Sharkansky first raised questions about the document a month ago.
- Six members of the [...]

They’re still finding ballots from the 2004 election in King County, Wash. Blogger Stefan Sharkansky broke the story yesterday:
It just hit the fan that King County Elections recently discovered several dozen uncounted ballots at an elections office, presumably the MBOS absentee ballot facility.
Senior election officials have known about this for several days and have kept [...]

From the Seattle Times:
The Washington Democratic Party may face thousands of dollars in fines for failing to file timely reports for the 2004 election. In addition to those fines, the party could be required to repay a $100,000 fine that was suspended in 2003 as long as the Democrats didn’t have any serious campaign-finance infractions [...]

Washington State’s new governor, Christine Gregoire, has received a death threat. She tells the Seattle Times, she blames “the level of discussion on some of these talk radio shows” for whipping up people.
Capt. Jeff DeVere, spokesman for the Washington State Patrol, tells the Times someone overheard Jeffrey Martelli of Yakima County saying he disliked government [...]

Voter fraud fiascos in Wisconsin and East St. Louis are now on top bloggers’ radar screen.
Now, it’s time to turn the spotlight on the stink in Sacramento. California-based watchdogs have been hot on the littered trail of embattled Democratic Secretary of State Kevin Shelley. In a nutshell:
Besides allegations that he used millions of dollars in [...]

At least 129 felons voted illegally in Washington State last fall, the Seattle Times reports. Coincidentally, Christine Gregoire’s margin of victory over Dino Rossi was exactly 129 votes.
The GOP has challenged the election outcome and is trying to assemble a comprehensive list of felons who voted.

Time for a Democrats Gone Wild! flashback: Remember those tire-slashing incidents in Milwaukee that occurred at a state Republican Party office, where vehicles that were to be used to transport voters to the polls had been parked? The alleged perps may be charged with felonies by the end of the week. From the Milwaukee Journal [...]

The sign-holder is a Democrat protesting Republicans’ call for a revote in Washington state. Stefan Sharkansky has the lowdown here. Looks like Gov.-elect Christine Gregoire (now known in GOP circles as Gov.-pretend Fraudoire) is too deep in debt to pay for a spell checker.
(More from blogger Emcee here.)

…in Washington state?
Meanwhile, reports of disenfranchised military voters keep coming in, prompting a creative Washingtonian to re-fashion those “We support our troops” ribbons accordingly.
ReVote Washington is seeking help here.
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Late-breaking updates: Stefan Sharkansky finds more “Enron Math” in King County and calls on readers to help investigate.

In the Ukraine of the Pacific Northwest, blogger Stefan Sharkansky has been ahead of the MSM in breaking an important story about magical mystery ballots appearing and disappearing in several precincts. The Seattle Times miraculously credits him with uncovering the information today.
Meanwhile, another Washington state blogger, Emcee, is rightly outraged about a Marine whose vote [...]

Ninety-one veterans say they want their votes for Washington State’s governor to be counted, too.

The latest in an infinite series on the ballot-counting in Washington state, the Ukraine of the Pacific Northwest…

*The Secretary of State is demanding that the state Supreme Court allow Democrat-leaning King County to count 735 disputed ballots
*Meanwhile, King County officials tomorrow will release preliminary results of their hand recount of more than 898,000 votes, but [...]

When last we visited the gubernatorial goings-on in Washington state, “do-over” was the word.
Over the weekend, the big news was a “smoking gun” report from Seattle-area election officials regarding uncounted, unsigned ballots. Republican party chair Chris Vance said “the report shows that election managers were working on the signature problem months ago, that the voters [...]

What a mess.
Update: Emcee has posted the Washington GOP’s lawsuit documents here.
Update II: It’s getting crazier. AP reports…
With Washington state in the middle of a recount of its amazingly close governor’s race, election officials in Seattle’s King County entered a warehouse Friday and found a plastic tray containing 150 misplaced ballots.
The discovery brings the number [...]

The Washington Times’s Ralph Hallow covers the Washington state election debacle (more here):
Republicans in Washington state suspect Democrats, with 500 patronage jobs at risk, are cheating in what is now the unprecedented third counting of the 2,883,341 ballots cast in the Nov. 2 election for governor.
In the current hand recount, Democrats keep discovering untabulated ballots. [...]

Oh, man. The gubernatorial election is still not over in Washington state. The Seattle Times reports today:
King County election officials yesterday admitted a major error in tallying votes in the governor’s race that could reverse the results and make Christine Gregoire the winner in the hand recount now under way.
The discovery that 561 votes were [...]

Steve Sailer puts another nail in the coffin of the myth that Bush won 44% of the Hispanic vote. Ruy Teixera agrees with Sailer. So does Zogby.

Republican Dino Rossi has won the gubernatorial recount in Washington State. Sore-losing Democrats, who thought beleaguered attorney general Christine Gregoire was going to coast to victory, are preparing to demand not only a hand recount–but also a second full recount as well.
Get all the lowdown at Sound Politics. This one looks like it will drag [...]

Four years ago, the world watched as election officials scrutinized hanging chads in Florida. Now residents in Washington State, where the outcome of the super-close gubernatorial election is still in doubt, are getting their own taste of election drama. The Post-Intelligencer reports:
A Superior Court judge ordered King County election officials to give Democrats the names [...]

Steve Sailer destroys the 44% myth once and for all here.

Several readers have sent me this ranking of states by IQ, purporting to show that people in red states are dumber, on average, than people in blue states. Like a lot of what the Democrats have spewed this election cycle, the IQ chart–pushed most prominently by Bush-hater Howard Stern–is a hoax.

The Generosity Index, compiled [...]

As I noted a few days ago, exit polls showing that 44 percent of Hispanics voted for Bush last week are flawed. This Steve Sailer column and this Houston Chronicle article have the details.
Despite the clear imperfections with the exit poll data, many post-election analyses cite the 44 percent figure as if there is no [...]

In today’s New York Times, columnist Bob Herbert argues that President Bush won last week because the American people are ignorant. He suggests in passing that Kerry could have won if only more people (presumably less ignorant people) had voted:
Last week’s election was extremely close and a modest shift in any number of factors might [...]

AP: Bush, Kerry Voters Differ on View of U.S.

Here is a county-level map of the 2004 presidential election results, courtesy of USA Today:

A map of the 2000 results can be viewed here.

In Washington, my old home state, some delightfully surprising results:
- Republican Dino Rossi, a solid conservative legislator from Issaquah, is currently 1,000 votes ahead of litigation-happy Democrat Christine Gregoire in the race for Governor. Gregoire’s management abilities (or lack thereof) were demonstrated in this incident. This race is too close to call.
- King County Republican [...]