Governor’s Race Tilts to Democrat in Recount
Democratic State Party Chairman Paul Berendt said in Olympia that recount results from King County gave Democrat Christine Gregoire an eight-vote statewide victory over Republican Dino Rossi in the governor’s race.
The report is preliminary, and neither King County nor the Republican Party would confirm the hand recount results.
But if Berendt’s analysis is right, it is a stunning reversal of fortune in the closest governor’s race in Washington history.
Rossi won the first count by 261 votes and won the machine recount by 42 votes.
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