Washington State will become a fiasco.

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Washington State Recount Law

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It must be both less than .5% and 2,000 votes.  This is most likely so tha tsmall offices, possibly some that get less than 2000 votes cast for them, do not always go to a recount, even when the result is 1,999 to 0.

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That's a stupid law. 2,000 ballots is like a 0.1% margin. The only way it could be 2,000 ballots and not 0.5% margin is if 80% of the people in the state didn't vote for said office.

Like I said, it applies to all elections in the state.  The .5% rule is there for a small county office that sees only a few thousand votes.

The first thing you do is look to see if the final vote is within 2,000 votes.  If not, election over.  If it is then you look at the percentage.  If it is within .5%, recount.  If not, election over.

It does seem like it would be better to just have a percentage cut off or different rules for different levels of government.   One standard for statewide offices and another for county and such.

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Don't be too down on COlumbia.  They just stopped the daily reporting early is all.  They are all counted up in all liklihood and just need to count any mail ballots that come in tomorrow.

Tomorrow is the last day for votes to come in.  Tomorrow we will have the official results, before the recount.

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We are down to 2 counties left. 

Benton with 750 and Gray's Harbor with 1221. 

Benton went for Rossi 68% to 30%.  Gray's Harbor was close, going for Gregoire 49.3% to 48.7%.

Rossi is up by 92 votes.

Now the main question is will we be within 150 votes requiring a hand recount. 

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Gray's Harbor is in.  Gregoire leads by 13 votes. 

It seems very likely Rossi will win.  Will it be by 150+ votes though?