Hand Recount to Delay Wash. Governor Race Further
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Washington state's unresolved race for  governor will be extended further with a hand recount of the  2.8 million votes cast, after Democrats agreed to pay for  another tally of the ballots which had their candidate losing  to the Republican contender by 42 votes.
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WASHINGTON STATE&#39;S Supreme Court cast an important vote for democracy when it decided on Wednesday that 723 ballots that had been &quot;lost&quot; for nearly six weeks should be included in a recount of the governor&#39;s election.
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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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The governor's race is still undecided in Washington state, and Democratic Party volunteers are frantically calling voters with disputed provisional ballots after a judge orders officials to release the names. Republicans are miffed.
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Local election officials are bracing for a long night and delays that may prevent some states from reporting final tallies until early Wednesday.
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Republican Dino Rossi came out on top Wednesday in the recount of Washington state&#39;s extremely tight gubernatorial race. The Seattle Times reported that Rossi&#39;s margin over Democrat
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Washington Attorney General Christine Gregoire won the state&#39;s governor&#39;s race by 130 votes, according to a hand recount that overturned a 42-vote victory initially awarded to Republican Dino Rossi.
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DEMOCRAT WINS: Christine Gregoire defeated Republican Dino Rossi by 130 votes in the second and final recount in the Washington governor's race.
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With the Republican holding a margin of fewer than 100 votes, officials counted several thousand final ballots Wednesday to determine who will be Washington state's next governor.
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Come Tuesday, it'll be official: Republican Dino Rossi will be certified as Washington's governor-elect. But it'll be far from over.
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Washington State's Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a lawsuit brought by Democrats to review all disqualified ballots in last month's gubernatorial election for a hand recount that is already under way.
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Democrat Christine Gregoire expanded her lead over Republican Dino Rossi to 130 votes to win the race for Washington state governor in a recount seven weeks after the election, officials said on Thursday.
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Election officials from Seattle's King County convened Thursday to begin counting more than 700 mistakenly discarded ballots that were expected to widen Democrat Christine Gregoire's lead in Washington's incredibly tight race for governor.
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Republican Dino Rossi kept a razor-thin lead in the Washington governor's race as counties raced a Wednesday deadline for recounting 2.8 million ballots &#151; and girded for yet another possible recount.
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Two weeks after the election, Washington state still doesn't have a new governor. And voters are weathering the suspense the way Seattle residents shrug off the rain.
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Most of Washington's counties began their third and final tally of the governor's race on Thursday, checking stacks of ballots by hand to see if any mistakes were made in the machine recount of some 2.9 million ballots.
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IT&#39;S NOW A TWO-FRONT WAR: Democrats announce a second recount of the 2.9 million ballots cast for governor, and head to state Supreme Court to seek a broader ballot count.