*Recount!*
Well, not for the pres, but I didn't think it would hold its own thread, and we all love to talk about recounts on the national level now anyways, so lets take a little peak at what's going on in Washington shall we.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/politics/18washington.html wrote:
Official Orders Recount in Washington State Race
SEATTLE, Nov. 17 - Washington's secretary of state said Wednesday that he would order a recount of the extraordinarily close race for governor here, ratcheting up the electoral turmoil that has for weeks roiled the contest for the state's highest office.
The race, between Christine Gregoire, 57, a Democrat who is the state attorney general, and Dino Rossi, 45, a Republican businessman and former state senator, has been surprisingly close for the past two weeks. With all 2.9 million votes counted Wednesday evening, Mr. Rossi was ahead by by 261 votes, triggering an automatic recount.
It was close down to the wire. On Tuesday evening, for example, the two candidates were separated by only 19 votes. Late Wednesday, with almost all of the 2.9 million votes counted, it was 48.87 percent to 48.87 percent, with Ms. Gregoire leading by only 28 votes at one point, and Mr. Rossi leading by 92 at another.
At a televised news conference in Olympia, the state capital, the secretary of state, Sam Reed, could barely contain a laugh when at 4:30 p.m. he announced the latest results and said he would officially order the counties to conduct a machine recount either later Wednesday night or early Thursday.
"We are doing everything we can to move this right along," he said. "The difference right now is 34 votes."
Mr. Reed, whose own election for office in 2000 was forced into a recount, said the closeness of this contest was highly unusual, even in a state where several races have prompted recounts. He said he expected a machine recount to be completed by next Wednesday.
Under state law, a winner must be declared by Dec. 2.
