Washington State: counties refusing to reopen vote count
AP reports: Counties have refused to reopen the vote count in Washington's ultra-close governor's race, and Republican Dino Rossi was reportedly under pressure to carry a last-ditch fight into the courts.
The three vote counts in America's closest governor's race are over, and on Thursday morning, Secretary of State Sam Reed is prepared to certify Democrat Christine Gregoire as the victor by 129 votes, state elections chief Nick Handy said Tuesday.
Reed has warned against counties reopening their tallies.
Rossi trails Gregoire, the state attorney general, by a tiny fraction of 1 percent, and the state GOP wanted counties to take another look at ballots that the party contends may have been improperly counted or left out. The party also is doing the groundwork for a possible court challenge. -- Tri-City Herald: Governor recount