Washington State Governor&#39;s Race Decided by 8 Votes, say Democrats
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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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After three vote tallies and nearly two nerve-racking months of waiting, Democrat Christine Gregoire was declared Washington's governor-elect on Thursday. But her Republican rival did not concede and wants a new election.
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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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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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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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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&#39;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
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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.
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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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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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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.
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Washington Stateâs 78 delegates are highly coveted by the Democratic contenders; the state holds caucuses on Saturday.
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Washington&#39;s seemingly endless election for governor, uncomfortably similar to the Florida presidential morass four years ago, has the state&#39;s election system under a magnifying glass.
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The cliffhanger in Washington State seems to have a winner: the Democratic candidate, Christine Gregoire.
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Republican Dino Rossi called for a new election in the race for Washington governor Wednesday night, a day before Democrat Christine Gregoire is to be certified as the winner by 129 votes.
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SEATTLE -- Republican Dino Rossi has won the recount in the Washington governor&#39;s race, beating Democrat Christine Gregoire by a tiny fraction of the votes cast.