It appears that Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi may file his official protest as early as today against the certification of Democrat Christine Gregoire as the new governor of Washington. Among his arguments will be that provisional ballots were mishandled in King County, the Democratic power base where a questionable recounting swung things in Gregoire’s direction (she ended up with an apparent 129-vote statewide edge). Also, some number of dead folks crossed over in the county to exercise (or perhaps exorcize) their democratic prerogatives.
Basically, there were more votes counted in King County than there were voters in the election. Leave it to those humorless Republicans to be such sticklers for detail.
BTW, former Sen. Slade Gorton is advising Rossi and doing some of the media rounds.