GOP Victory In Washington State

Dino Rossi , the Republican candidate for governor in Washington, won the initial ballot count in November in a very tight election. In a hand recount, his Democratic challenger, Christine Gregoire, won by an even slimmer margin. The state GOP contested the results, citing more than 1,000 cases of invalid votes being counted. Votes that were cast by felons, or by persons who had died PRIOR to the election. Strange that...

Anyway, Superior Court Judge John Bridges handed the GOP a victory, giving the go-ahead to apply "proportional analysis" to the illegal votes. Using proportional analysis, they want the court to subtract illegal votes from both candidates' totals according to precinct voting patterns. For example, if 10 illegal votes came from a precinct that voted 60 percent for Gregoire and 40 percent for Rossi, six votes would be deducted from Gregoire's total and four from Rossi's. A trial is scheduled to begin May 23, with the GOP asking for the hand recount results to be put aside.

It sure would be interesting to see how the felons and corpses voted...