Wash. Judge Upholds Gubernatorial Vote (bwahahahah)

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Wash. Judge Upholds Gubernatorial Vote
By REBECCA COOK, Associated Press Writer
Mon Jun 6, 4:28 PM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050606/ap_on_el_gu/election_challenge;_ylt=AhMJGzsmz_rw9918FbxiOJSs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2MTQ3MTFjBHNlYwN0cw--


WENATCHEE, Wash. - A judge Monday upheld Democrat Christine Gregoire's victory in the closest race for governor in U.S. history, rejecting Republican claims that last fall's election was stolen through errors and fraud.

The election — decided by an amazingly close 129 votes out of 2.9 million cast — included 1,678 illegally cast ballots, Chelan County Superior Court Judge John Bridges found. But he said Republicans failed to prove that GOP candidate Dino Rossi would have won if those votes had been disregarded.

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The judge found that the Republicans failed to prove that Gregoire received one illegal vote among those improperly cast. In fact, he said, the only "clear and convincing" evidence he saw was the statements of four felons who said they voted for Rossi and one who said he cast a ballot for a Libertarian candidate.

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Bridges subtracted four votes from Rossi's total.