So now the King County ballots are in, and it\u2019s Christine Gregoire by 10 votes? What a deal!<\/strong><\/p>\n Tomorrow, when King County includes the hundreds of disputed ballots \u2013 as they are allowed under today\u2019s state Supreme Court decision \u2013 that lead may grow wider.<\/p>\n So maybe it\u2019s finally over\u2026<\/p>\n I guess Chris Vance can safely commit suicide now, or whatever it is he needs to do.<\/p>\n He does need to do something.<\/p>\n Over the past week or so, it\u2019s become increasingly apparent that Vance and his Republican buddies have no interest at all in determining the real will of the people, and I find that truly appalling.<\/p>\n The Republican\u2019s bid to exclude ballots from King County that were mishandled by election workers has shown their true colors \u2013 their whole objective was to exclude the predominately Democrat ballots, thus unfairly stealing the election, though legalistic machinations.<\/p>\n It\u2019s clear that Vance\u2019s only interest is in winning the election, no matter the cost \u2013 and no matter what the actual outcome of the vote was.<\/p>\n I call bullshit.<\/p>\n The true will of the people is the only<\/em> thing that matters. Any and every ballot that was legitimately cast in the election must<\/em> be counted. If ballots were mislaid or mishandled by election workers, and not counted initially \u2013 through no fault of the voter<\/em> \u2013 then the ballot must still be counted now. The voter must not be disenfranchised for misconduct on the part of election officials. All legitimate votes must be counted. To do otherwise would be a travesty and make a mockery of our elections process.<\/p>\n In the weeks since the election, the only<\/em> issue of the recounts has been to determine the true outcome of the vote \u2013 the true will of the people. Dino Rossi should have the grace to concede defeat.<\/p>\n And if Chris Vance doesn\u2019t have the balls to commit suicide, then he ought to at least move to Alaska or Florida or somewhere \u2013 some place no one knows him (Florida would be particularly appropriate).<\/p>\n Chris Vance has made such a tremendous horse\u2019s ass of himself through all of this \u2013 I can\u2019t imagine how he could ever show his face in public around here again\u2026<\/p>\n What a disgrace!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Washington Governor\u2019s Race So now the King County ballots are in, and it\u2019s Christine Gregoire by 10 votes? What a deal! Tomorrow, when King County includes the hundreds of disputed ballots \u2013 as they are allowed under today\u2019s state Supreme Court decision \u2013 that lead may grow wider. So maybe it\u2019s finally over\u2026 I guess […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnd now, that will has now been determined.<\/p>\n