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To: Selectric II who wrote (88811)	11/30/2004 10:19:34 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793917

I'm not ordinarily much of a Ken Schram fan, but he is on point here: Schram Commentary: Making Every Vote Count -- Thrice! November 30, 2004 By Ken Schram SEATTLE - So, is this a two-bit race? 25-cents is the per vote cost of hand-counting the almost 3 million ballots cast for governor. To hear Christine Gregoire and Paul Berendt tell it, it's now about making sure that every vote counts by counting every vote -- several times! That's very noble of them. Then again, I'm pretty sure that they'd love to figure out a way to just count more votes for Gregoire. And that's why the Democrats are so interested in just a partial recount. See, if they could magically turn up just 43 more Gregoire votes in just one county, why then the state's on the hook to pay for a recount everywhere else. That would save the Democrats a whole bunch of money. Of course, taxpayers would end up getting screwed, but hey, we're used to that. When it comes right down to it, I don't know why the Democrats don't just insist on a brand new election. That way, instead of counting the same votes over and over and over, there'd be new ones to fight over. Or - and maybe this is an idea worth considering - maybe the noble duo of Christine Gregoire and Paul Berendt should consider that with the votes from THIS election already counted and recounted, they should quit trying to turn this into a two-bit race. Want to share your thoughts with Ken Schram? You can e-mail him at kenschram@komo4news.com komotv.com