Re: election scrutiny in Washington state -

[Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Neal and all:

I bet there are a whole lot of people in Washington State who are kicking
themselves for not cheating more.

Ralph Shnelvar


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:00:20 -0700, you wrote:

>Wow - the governor's race in Washington state is quite something to
>watch.  It is between Republican Dino Rossi and Democrat Christine
>Gregoire.  The lead changed back and forth several times during the
>counting, including twice on the last day of the official count,
>yesterday.
>
>Out of 2.8 million votes, and 1371414 for the winner, the margin of
>victory was 261 votes.  That's 0.0019% (of the winner's total).
>
>For a story about some of the procedural decisions being made, see
>
>  http://www.columbian.com/11182004/front_pa/212956.html
>
>Even though it takes a much smaller margin for a recount (2000 votes,
>or .015% in this case), there will be one in this case.  This will be
>one of the great case-studies in the nation this year on how counties
>and parties and perhaps the courts deal with close races.
>
>Official results are at
> http://vote.wa.gov/general/statewide_results.aspx?o=7FR30bVZqpnn5rCqJv1pVg%3D%3D
>
>A history of blow-by-blow in-depth prediction and analysis of the
>results is on at least three blog sites:
>
> http://www.soundpolitics.com/
> http://www.timothygoddard.com/blog/
> http://www.horsesass.org/
>
>Neal McBurnett                 http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/
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