Supreme Court rejects Democrats' recount lawsuit

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OLYMPIA, Wash. -- The state Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously turned down the Democratic Party's request that previously rejected absentee and provisional ballots be included in the hand recount of the governor's race.

Republican Dino Rossi won the Nov. 2 election by 261 votes and held a 42-vote lead over Democrat Christine Gregoire after the first, machine recount.

In a brief written opinion, the high court said that under Washington law, "ballots are to be 'retabulated' only if they have been previously counted or tallied" - thus excluding those that had been disqualified by county canvassing boards.

The decision does not affect the 561 uncounted ballots in King County that were discovered Sunday to have been wrongfully rejected because of mistakes by election workers. Those ballots go to a canvassing board Wednesday for verification.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=WA%20Recount%20Lawsuit

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1. Dupe - mods please delete

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2. i watched this on cspan

it was clear how they would come down. it was just another republican circle jerk.... and that is what we can expect from the courts from here on out....the republicans now have a free hand in cheating and stealing from us and the courts are just going to cheer them on.

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3. Duplicate link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1070858