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	Washington gubernatorial election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The primary election was held on September 14, and the general election was held on November 2.
		The 2004 election cycle was the first in Washington state to use a party-line ballot system of holding primary elections.
		Washington is unusual for a U.S. state in that it only requires that an absentee ballot be postmarked by the day of the election to be valid, while most other states require the ballot to have arrived at the election office by that time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Washington_gubernatorial_election,_2004 (4858 words)

	Election Law @ Moritz - Weekly Comment (Recount Redux?: What Might Happen in a Close Election) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For any recount of an election in which ballots are cast using a direct electronic voting machine with a voter verified paper audit trail, the voter verified paper audit trail shall serve as the official ballot to be recounted.
		If there were a close election in Ohio that led to a recount, one of the questions that could emerge is whether the Secretary of State's standards are a reasonable interpretation of the statute or, alternatively, whether they conflict with the law passed by the legislature.
		Election Law @ Moritz institutionally does not represent any clients or participate in any litigation, but individuals affiliated with the program may from time to time in their own personal capacity engage in pro bono representation of clients other than partisan candidates or organizations.
	moritzlaw.osu.edu /electionlaw/comments/articles.php?ID=17 (1940 words)

	The Command Post - 2004 US Presidential Election - Washington Archives
		The Washington Supreme Court has issued an order rejecting the petition of the Washington State Democratic Party to order a reexamination of previously disqualified absentee and provisional ballots in the recount for Washington’s gubernatorial election.
		The Associated Press reports the court said that under Washington law, “ballots are to be ‘retabulated’ only if they have been previously counted or tallied” thereby excluding those ballots that had been disqualified by canvassing boards.
		The Washington Governor’s race is still incredibly tight (at one point they were only 32 votes apart) and there are still quite a few absentee ballots to be counted.
	www.command-post.org /2004/2_archives/cat_washington.html (922 words)

	.: Print Version :.
		This election was stolen from the legal voters of this state by a bizarre combination of illegal voters and bungling bureaucrats."
		Election errors Republicans characterized as "sinister," Democrats described as innocent mistakes that happen in every county, in every election.
		In a hand recount of nearly 3 million ballots, Gregoire won by 129 votes, and her margin was the smallest in percentage terms of any governor's race in the nation's history.
	www.nctimes.com /articles/2005/06/06/news/politics/6505195950.prt (543 words)

	Elections \| The Ledger: Lakeland, Polk County, Florida
		WASHINGTON - Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite of Brooksville surveyed the three Republican seats in Florida that Democrats expected to capture and found a bright side of the GOP defeat Wednesday morning.
		WASHINGTON — Resurgent Democrats swept toward control of the House and gained ground in the Senate on Tuesday in elections shaped by an unpopular war in Iraq and scandal at home.
		WASHINGTON - Resurgent Democrats toppled Republican senators in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Rhode Island and gained ground in the House today, challenging for control of Congress in midterm elections shaped by an unpopular war in Iraq and scandal at home.
	www.theledger.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=ELECTIONS (1468 words)

	The Command Post - 2004 Presidential Election
		The State Board of Elections certified nearly all results from the Nov. 2 election on Tuesday, but withheld approval of the outcome of two statewide races that are the subject of protests.
		Elections workers and reporters crammed themselves into a tiny storage room Tuesday and angled for their best views of a fl metal box the size of a large briefcase.
		Election officials in one Ohio county found that about 2,600 ballots were double-counted, and two other counties have discovered possible cases of people voting twice in the presidential election.
	www.command-post.org /2004/index.html (5783 words)

	OpinionJournal - John Fund on the Trail
		The infamous 2004 governor's race was finally decided seven weeks after the election, after King County officials found new unsecured ballots on nine separate occasions during two statewide recounts.
		Records indicate that some election officials in King County knew that the absentee ballot report they filed in November was inaccurate because there was evidence at least 86 ballots had been misplaced.
		Gorton points out that "a court [can] void any election where the number of illegal or mistaken votes exceeds the margin of victory." In the case of last year's race for governor the number of uncounted ballots unearthed just this April is fast approaching Ms.
	www.opinionjournal.com /diary/?id=110006543 (973 words)

	Print Version .: Corvallis Gazette-Times :.
		Democrats called nine county elections officials to testify Friday about mistakes that allowed invalid ballots to be counted.
		Rossi and the Republicans sued the secretary of state to overturn the election, but the state has taken a back seat to the Democratic Party in defending the election.
		The two attorneys representing Secretary of State Sam Reed, a Republican, are quick to note that they are not defending the 2004 election itself — rather, they are defending the secretary of state's administration of the election.
	www.gazettetimes.com /articles/2005/05/31/news/the_west/tuewst02.prt (550 words)

	Seattle University School of Law - Law Review - Volume 29 Issue 2
		The recent 2004 Washington state gubernatorial election, pitting Democratic Party nominee Christine Gregoire against Republican Party nominee Dino Rossi, exposed deficiencies in the administration of elections in the State of Washington and thereby created a major political crisis.
		This Article details the plethora of problems associated with Washington State’s 2004 gubernatorial election and explores the proposed electoral reforms in light of prior threats to the electoral process.
		Part III discusses the events that unfolded in the 2004 gubernatorial election and describes the crisis that ensued.
	www.law.seattleu.edu /lawrev/volume29/issue2/avila (904 words)

	USATODAY.com - Judge upholds Washington governor's election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But in a ruling issued in his Wenatchee courtroom, Bridges rejected GOP claims that the election was stolen through errors and fraud, and said Republicans had failed to prove that Rossi would have won had the illegal votes been disregarded.
		The Republicans were hoping the judge would nullify the election and then either declare Rossi the winner outright or open the way for a new election in the fall.
		The Republicans argued that large numbers of votes were illegally cast by felons or cast in the names of dead people; that there were errors in the counting of ballots; and that there was stuffing of the ballot box and destruction of ballots.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-06-06-washington-governor_x.htm (868 words)

	UWLS Course Syllabus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		’s 2004 Gubernatorial election that led to 9 lawsuits and three state supreme court opinions.
		’s election statutes that deal with voters and registration, voting at the polling place and voting absentee or by mail.
		Elections are a process by which voters make a choice among alternatives.
	www.law.washington.edu /courses/mcdonald/E558_Sp06/Syllabus.html (1554 words)

	Expose the Left » Washington Election
		Former Washington candiate for Governorship, Dino Rossi appeared on Connected to talk about what is happening in the state’s court system in his case.
		It looks like the stolen election in Washington might get some light shed on it, after a judge allowed ‘statistics’ as evidence to prove ‘illegal votes swayed the race’.
		OLYMPIA, Wash. —Democrat Christine Gregoire has been sworn in as the governor of Washington state, but her opponent is mounting a legal challenge that could still undo her election.
	www.exposetheleft.com /category/washington-election (1256 words)

	The Seattle Times: Local News: Rossi will not appeal election ruling
		ELAINE THOMPSON / AP Judge John Bridges announces the verdict in the gubernatorial election challenge trial in Chelan County Superior Court today in Wenatchee, Wash. The judge upheld Washington's 2004 gubernatorial election, rejecting Republicans' bid to nullify the 129-vote victory of Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire.
		"It's important to the state of Washington that she is successful in implementing her campaign promises," he said in a brief appearance at his Bellevue campaign headquarters.
		The governor treated the court ruling almost like an election night victory, beaming and hugging her husband and two daughters before a crowd of staff and onlookers.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2002319056_webverdict06.html (1476 words)

	Sound Politics: Basis for Contest of 2004 Washington Gubernatorial Election
		He even said as much, stating that he was certain the election would be contested and thus his certification, far from being a genuine statement guaranteeing the results, simply passed along the problem of dealing with the botched election to the legislature.
		If the election had ended in a tie, the choice of governor would be decided under the constitution as a purely political matter -- by a vote of both houses of the legislature in joint session.
		When the election returns are opened by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and declared, that is the time when there had better be someone who announces the existence of a contest of the election.
	www.soundpolitics.com /archives/003416.html (14069 words)

	Election 2004: Color Washington Purple (Seattle Weekly)
		Rossi led in 36 of Washington's 39 counties by the end of the evening.
		Color Washington Purple — The state's electorate proves once again it knows how, and loves, to split a ticket.
		Election 2004, by Rick Anderson and George Howland Jr..
	www.seattleweekly.com /news/0444/041103_news_election.php (918 words)

	NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The discovery late Monday of 561 votes in the ongoing Washington state governor's race had both state and GOP officials crying foul yesterday, with Secretary of State Sam Reed saying that vote fraud is a possibility.
		Washington state is currently undergoing its second ballot recount in a race in which Republican Dino Rossi won the initial election by 261 votes over Democrat Christine Gregoire.
		The Washington State Supreme Court ruled yesterday that individual canvassing boards were not required to review votes that were initially discarded because of flaws.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/ic/2004/12/15/72011.shtml (534 words)

	American Center For Voting Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Illegal votes and election irregularities may have determined the winner of the 2004 gubernatorial race in the state of Washington.
		The debate in Washington after the November election and recounts was not about whether illegal votes were cast on Election Day.
		In his June 6 decision to uphold Gregoire’s election as governor, Chelan County Superior Court Judge John Bridges recognized that more than 1,000 illegal and fraudulent votes were cast in an election decided by a mere 133 votes (the judge deducted four felon votes from Rossi’s total).
	www.ac4vr.com /reports/072005/washington.html (436 words)

	Democrats Claim Win in Washington's Gubernatorial Election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Out of 2.9 million ballots cast on Election Day, Rossi won by a mere 261 votes; his lead was whittled to 42 votes in a subsequent machine recount.
		King County Elections spokeswoman Bobbie Egan, who confirmed that both parties received the recount data on Tuesday, said official results would be released Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.
		Gregoire, 57, a three-term attorney general, was the favorite going into the election against Rossi, 45, a real estate agent and former state senator.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2004/12/22/85753.shtml (677 words)

	Peter Kirsanow on the Washington Election on National Review Online
		The penultimate round in the dispute over the state of Washington gubernatorial election began Monday in a Chelan County courtroom.
		Republicans filed a petition contesting last November’s election — won by Democrat Christine Gregoire over Republican Dino Rossi by a mere 129 votes — on the grounds that the alleged errors, omissions, and misconduct of election officials rendered the election’s results unknowable.
		It appeared as early as election night that there might be a challenge to the election.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/kirsanow200505241034.asp (1518 words)

	Northwest Progressive Institute: 2004 Gubernatorial Election is Wikipedia's Featured Article for Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Washington gubernatorial election of 2004 was a dramatic event, gaining national interest for its legal twists and turns and its extremely close finish.
		The Republicans filed a lawsuit in Chelan County Superior Court contesting the election, in which the trial judge decided against the Republicans.
		One of the contributors (it wasn't somebody from NPI) even inserted links in the end "References" section to Pacific NW Portal and (un)SoundPolitics, which I was pleased to see.
	www.nwprogressive.org /weblog/2006/02/2004-gubernatorial-election-is.html (489 words)

	Washington Secretary of State - 2004 General Election
		Results are immediately updated whenever a new tabulation is reported from any of the state's 39 county election departments.
		Election results are not final or official until certified.
		For election results on local offices and ballot measures, contact your county auditor or elections department.
	vote.wa.gov /general/recount.aspx (153 words)

	Kentucky election results 2004 - washingtonpost.com
		Voters were asked "[a]re you in favor of amending the Kentucky Constitution to provide that only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be a marriage in Kentucky, and that a legal status identical to or similar to marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid or recognized?"
		In the 2003 gubernatorial election, the three-term Republican defeated Chandler, who was the Democratic Attorney General.
		In the 2002 elections, Senator Mitch McConnell became the first Kentucky Republican elected to four consecutive terms, trouncing Democrat newcomer Lois Combs Weinberg.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/elections/2004/ky (628 words)

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		WENATCHEE, Wash. (AP) -- The 2004 gubernatorial election was "stolen" by the Democrats and should be nullified, an attorney told a judge Monday.
		Republicans had alleged fraud in a legal brief filed Friday, after depositions last week in which King County election workers said they submitted false absentee ballot reports, with the knowledge of their supervisors, before the election was certified.
		Democrats say Gregoire's election was not the scandal the GOP is depicting.
	www.ksdk.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=79741 (753 words)

	Down for the Count? Election 2004: Drama in the other Washington
		Locked in what may be the tightest race of its size in U.S. history, Washington state is about to begin its third statewide count of this election.
		Republican gubernatorial candicate Dino Rossi is now just 42 votes ahead of his Democratic opponent, Chris Gregoire.
		By that measure, Washington state has reason to be immensely proud of its conduct of the recounts so far.
	www.yesmagazine.org /cmblog/2004/12/drama-in-other-washington.html (393 words)

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