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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (22583)	12/10/2004 2:42:17 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Regardless of how the rejected ballots are handled, it's clear that a 42 vote margin in the governor's election was close enough to warrant a hand count, as prescribed by law. I can guarantee you that if Rossi was short 42 votes, he'd be howling for the hand count. Instead we have the same old partisan bickering and finger pointing about how the other side should concede, even when the election is in a statistical dead heat. LOL. I doubt it. I know Dino Rossi, have played golf with him, and he is a classy guy. He would not be hanging on with his fingernails like Gregoire is. On the issue of the rejected ballots, now is not the time to be talking about uniform standards. We obviously need election reform going forward. But for purposes of this election, certain ballots were rejected, just like they have been in prior elections, and we cannot be second guessing the reasons now and counting these new ballots. Recount, after all, means "to count that which was counted before." By the way, are you aware that the more these ballots are handled, the more they degrade?