WA: Looks like Gregoire will pull this one out of the hat! 2 counties left

[merwin]

http://vote.wa.gov/general/recount_resultsbycounty.aspx

According to the latest results, Pierce county came back with their results, and basically wiped out Rossi's lead back to what it was after the manual counting, and there's still two counties left!

Rossi is ahead by 43 votes total now. Spokane County, and King County are left.
Here's the breakdown:
Spokane County was 90k to 100k (Gregoire/Rossi). She lost that one.
King County was 505k to 351k (Gregoire/Rossi). She won that one bigtime.

Even without the 573 "extra" votes in King County that are still somewhat under debate, it looks like she's going to pull this one out of the hat.

Also, take a look at Snohomish and Pierce counties. Very odd results coming back from the machine recounts to the manual recounts. Snohomish County had almost 200 votes added to the total (from a paperless electronic voting system there), and Pierce county added around 450 votes to their total (not sure what system they use). That seems pretty screwed up, although both of these strange occurances gave Gregoire lots of extra net votes in counties that she lost. Seems to me like there was a bit of supression going on somewhere, either that or some bigtime errors.

Hopefully they will figure out why that happened...