Question: Why in Tacoma? Answer: Any good lawyer will try to find "the right judge" to hear their case: "TACOMA, Wash. -- A judge Friday granted a state Republican Party request to block King County from counting hundreds of recently discovered ballots in Washington's incredibly close governor's race."-from the P-I story tonight. Both the Dems and King County plan to appeal. The Seattle Times story tonight covers much of the same territory, but punches up the news that another 150 ballots have been unearthed: "King County election officials found 150 more absentee ballots today that were mistakenly not counted in two previous vote counts but which are now expected to be included in the ongoing manual recount in the governor's race." I'm all in favor of counting all the votes, but I must say this is starting to resemble a farce. What might they find tomorrow? Update: It is tomorrow and we discover "Ruling WA judge barely qualified," from this post on Kos, compliments of Susan Hu. This Saturday morning's P-I story, "Judge: Don't count 735 ballots," notes that Gregoire picked up another 31 votes in Pierce County, cutting Rossi's lead to 50 votes statewide. This morning's updated Seattle Times recount story gives us a few more details like this one about how a King County Elections staffer came upon the newly discovered ballots: "he had missed a second tray that contained names beginning with A, B and C." Update: A post on Kos picks up on a column in this morning's Seattle Times.
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