Recount Ordered in Washington Governor Race
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Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed ordered a recount of the state&#39;s gubernatorial race on Wednesday after the final tally showed only 261 votes separated the top two candidates.
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A judge Friday granted a state Republican Party request to block the counting of hundreds of recently discovered King County ballots in Washington's extremely close governor's race.
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More than seven weeks after the election, Democrat Christine Gregoire took the lead in Washington's governor's race Wednesday, gaining a 10-vote advantage over Republican Dino Rossi after King County officials announced results of a hand recount.
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The election was already achingly close, but the recount in the race for governor of Washington State was almost absurdly close, the results showed Wednesday.
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A hand recount of votes from King County, Washington, has pushed Democratic candidate Christine Gregoire ahead of Republican Dino Rossi in the governor&#39;s race by 10 votes.
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Democrat Christine Gregoire won the Washington governor's race by 130 votes out of 2.9 million ballots cast, according to final recount results announced Thursday from Seattle's King County, the last of the state's 39 counties to report.
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Republican Dino Rossi came out ahead of Democrat Christine Gregoire on Wednesday in the recount for Washington governor, but Democrats are expected to demand yet another recount.
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A recount is all but certain in the race for governor, but the process will not start until December and it may be a while before islanders know who their next governor will be.
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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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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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For Dino Rossi, a 42-vote lead was enough to declare victory in the Washington governor's race. Christine Gregoire, however, begged to differ. And so, with a slim margin and a candidate unwilling to concede Wednesday, the state probably has another recount &#151; a third &#151; to look forward to.
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Seven weeks after 2.8 million people  voted to elect a governor for Washington state, the Democratic  candidate took the lead by a 10-vote margin in an unprecedented  hand recount, election officials said on Wednesday.
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Democrat Christine Gregoire won the Washington governor&#39;s race by a 130-vote margin out of 2.9 million ballots cast, according to final recount results from King County, the last of Washington&#39;s 39 counties to report.
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Through all the counting and recounting in the closest governor's race in Washington state history, Republican Dino Rossi has held the slimmest of margins over Democrat Christine Gregoire &#151; even picking up a few votes here and there as a tedious hand recount grinds on.
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Republican Party leaders yesterday laid the groundwork for a possible challenge of Democrat Christine Gregoire&#39;s victory over Dino Rossi in the hand recount for governor, claiming a number of irregularities in the way King County handled ballots.
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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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Los Angeles Times - SEATTLE &#8212; Washington's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that 735 newly discovered ballots in liberal-leaning King County must be counted, tipping the state's closest-ever gubernatorial election to Democrat Christine Gregoire.