In Washington, Call for a Second Election

In Washington, Call for a Second Election

By SARAH KERSHAW

Published: December 30, 2004

SEATTLE, Dec. 29 - Dino Rossi, the Republican candidate for Washington governor who won the Nov. 2 election by a hair and a recount by even fewer votes but then lost in a third count, asked his opponent Wednesday night to join him in requesting that the state vote all over again.

Christine O. Gregoire, the Democrat and the state's attorney general, who won a final recount last week by 130 votes out of almost 3 million cast, refused, with her spokesman saying, "N-O, no."

Wednesday evening, a day before the Washington secretary of state was set to certify Ms. Gregoire, as the winner of the long, drawn out race for governor, Mr. Rossi, a businessman and former state senator, sent Ms. Gregoire a letter saying: "The uncertainty surrounding this election process isn't just bad for you and me it is bad for the entire state. People need to know for sure that the next governor actually won the election."

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That is the height of hypocrisy were he concerned for the people's need to know who actually won the election, I can only wonder why when it looked as if he won why he was silent on the need for a second election. Wonder if Bush would have considered that since his first election was to say the least questionable.