Gregoire Wins?

All that money-spending seems to have paid off for the Democrats and the horse they backed for Governor of Washington. Concluding the hand recount, Gregoire won by 8 votes initially and now leads by around 130 votes.

I don't know what this means, do the Republicans have any recourse? Rossi thinks so, but the Democrats say no--obviously.

In a new wrinkle, Rossi might get some help from Alaska. Quoth the Times:

Washington, with one of the country's most liberal provisional-ballot laws, sends ballots to the voter's home state in hopes they can be counted in the presidential election, said Washington's director of elections, Nick Handy.

Apparently at least one of the ballots that ended up in Alaska had a Tacoma address, which would mean the person who cast the vote might be eligible to vote in Washington.

The Times says Rossi's working on getting ahold of the ballots that made their was to Alaska certainly, but also to find ballots sent to the other 48 states. Handy says it's too late to count them. I wonder if his position is a partisan one.

Shit gets weirder.