Ballots Wrongly Denied in Wash. Gov. Race
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The election director in Seattle's King County said Monday that hundreds of absentee ballots were mistakenly rejected in the heavily Democratic stronghold &#151; enough to swing the close governor's race to Democrat Christine Gregoire.
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Republican Dino Rossi was certified as the winner Tuesday of Washington's race for governor, but the closest gubernatorial contest in state history is far from over.
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One chapter in Washington&#39;s tumultuous governor&#39;s race closed Thursday, when Democrat Christine Gregoire beat Republican Dino Rossi in a statewide hand recount by a razor-thin 130-vote margin.
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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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State republicans are asking Dino Rossi supporters to make sure their ballots were not rejected. That after Rossi lost his lead in the governor&#39;s race to Democrat Chris Gregoire.
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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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A judge Friday granted a state Republican Party request to block the counting of hundreds of recently discovered King County ballots in the governor's race, which the GOP's candidate is winning by just a few dozen votes.
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Recount Begins in Wash. Governor&#39;s Race; Republican Dino Rossi Led by 261 Votes in First Count. Govs.-elect Matt Blunt of Missouri, left, and Dino Rossi of Washington, confer during a break at the Republican
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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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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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Olympia, Wash. -- The top election official in Washington state has certified the gubernatorial election, making Democrat Christine Gregoire the governor-elect.
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Republican Dino Rossi was certified as  the winner of the Washington governor's race on Tuesday, but  Democrats were expected to request a hand recount in the  closest gubernatorial election in the state's history.
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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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The closest governor's race in Washington history was forced into a recount Wednesday as counties finished tallying the ballots and found only a few votes separating the candidates out of 2.8 million cast.
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With only 28 votes separating  candidates for Governor of Washington state after a  two-week-long count, election officials said on Wednesday that  the result would likely result in a recount.
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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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OLYMPIA, Wash_ Edged out of the closest governorÂ´s race in state history, Republican Dino Rossi urged his opponent to accept a revote, saying the uncertainty surrounding the back-and-forth election was bad for the state.