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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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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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, Washington The chairman of the Washington State Democratic Party says that recount results from King County give his party&#39;s candidate an eight-vote victory in the closest governor&#39;s race in state history.
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Washington state Democrats, fearful their candidate for governor might narrowly lose because of disputed ballots, sued election officials Friday in the state's largest county.
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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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The state Supreme Court today promised a speedy decision after hearing arguments over the fate of hundreds of mistakenly rejected ballots in Washington&#39;s incredibly close governor&#39;s race.
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A judge has refused to speed up a Republican challenge to the bitterly disputed Washington governor's election, saying an accellerated schedule could lead to chaos.
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A recount by hand of 2.9 million votes began Wednesday to determine the winner of the closest gubernatorial race in state history.
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Democrats in the US state of Washington say hand recount results from one county give its candidate a narrow victory in the November governor&#39;s race.
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Republican Dino Rossi has a 42-vote lead over Democratic state Attorney General Christine Gregoire in the race to become governor of Washington, according to a recount of ballots that may be challenged by Democrats.
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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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Recount results from King County on Wednesday made Democrat Christine Gregoire the apparent but unofficial winner of the extraordinarily close Washington governor&#39;s race.
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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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Democrat Christine Gregoire won the Washington governor's race by a 130-vote margin 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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D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams (D) yesterday asked the Washington Convention Center Authority to halt a scheduled vote on recommendations for a new hotel site, delaying action for at least another two weeks.
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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.