Wash. Court: New Ballots Can Be Counted
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David Edwards waves a US flag and holds a sign as he stands with other protesters on the steps of the Temple of Justice before a state Supreme Court hearing, Wednesday morning, Dec. 22, 2004, in Olympia, Wash.
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By Keri Brenner, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  May 26--Two months after Thurston County issued a favorable environmental ruling on a grading permit for a proposed 25-foot-wide private road off Steamboat Island Road, county officials took it back for a do-over.
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In Washington State, ballots are being recounted in closest statewide race in history.
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The state Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously rejected the Democratic Party's request that previously rejected absentee and provisional ballots be included in the hand recount of Washington state's contested governor's race.
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Election officials in some of Washington&#39;s 39 counties Saturday began a recount of the 2.8 million votes cast in the governor&#39;s race, which Republican Dino Rossi won by just 261 votes over Democrat Christine Gregoire.
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Washington State&#39;s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a lawsuit brought by Democrats to review all disqualified ballots in last month&#39;s gubernatorial election for a hand recount that is already under way.
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Democrat Christine Gregoire won the Washington governor's race by 130 votes, according to final recount results announced Thursday from Seattle's King County, but Republican Dino Rossi and his supporters said the back-and-forth contest was far from finished, more than seven weeks after the election.
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Democrat Christine Gregoire's improbable rally in the marathon Washington governor's race picked up steam on two fronts: in a hand recount that nudged her 10 votes into the lead, and in a court ruling likely to land even more ballots in her column.
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King County officials, from left, Dwight Pelz, a King County Council member; Dean Logan, director of Records and Elections and Licensing Services; and Daniel Satterberg, with the county prosecutors office, review a disputed ballot at the King County
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OSWEGO, Kan. - Labette County election officials found a curious solution to ballots jammed in an electronic scanner - a hair dryer.  Problems started when the county clerk's office began counting 805 advance ballots just after 7 p.m. Tuesday.
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A busy day beckons in Washington state Wednesday, with the state Supreme Court hearing arguments on the extremely close governor's race and officials in a key county expected to finish their hand recount.
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Republicans prepared a lawsuit Thursday to try to prevent King County from including 573 newly discovered ballots in a hand recount that could erase their gubernatorial candidate's razor-thin margin of victory.
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By Mary Lane Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Feb.
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Democrat Christine Gregoire finished 130 votes ahead in the roller-coaster Washington governor&#39;s race after results of a hand recount including disputed ballots were released Thursday by King County.
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OLYMPIA - New votes are turning up in the governor&#39;s race around the state as election workers find ballots that were never counted, punch cards with problem chads and optical scan ballots that weren&#39;t marked properly.
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After a bitter and protracted recount fight in the Washington state governorâs race, elections officials announced today that the Democratic candidate, Christine O. Gregoire
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A judge's order requiring some provisional ballots in Michigan to be counted even if they are cast in the wrong precinct was put on hold Sunday, the second time in as many days that a federal appeals court dealt a setback to Democrats who wanted to ease voting restrictions.