Anyone who thinks either side is above serious shenagans is simply naive.

Note the Rs were in no way upset over all the "irregularities" when they were ahead. Note the Rs screamed about all the one sides ballot enhancements, yet a R was on that board and he said that in only 22 cases was the board unable to agree and in some of those the vote was recorded for Rossi.

The Rs make a big deal out of dead voters. Last I saw there were less than 20 in King County and the ones that had been investigated were where the spouse of an absentee voter who died after the ballots was sent out, voted for the dead spouse. I read that in one case the dead voter voted for Rossi. Is that an indication of fraud by the Rs?

BOTH parties will do whatever they can to push the election their way. Remember Chris said 42 votes was a tie? Remember when the Rossi camp said that to save us all the problems she should concede? Now the recount shifted the balance and BOTH sides change positions.

There are few honorable folks in this mess. One is Sam Reed the republican Sec. of State who refused to let partisan politics steamroll him. Another was the lone Democrat legislator who voted with the republicans for a recount. Those men seem able to rise above partisan politics to do what they believe to be right.

I voted for Chris but do understand that if I had voted for Rossi I would be damned upset. You Rossi voters need to ask yourselves, would you be this upset if the first two counts went for Chris and the last went for Rossi?

I remember that the Rossi spokesman strongly hinted that they would ask for a hand count if the machine recount went against them. Do any of you think Rossi would have simply conceded if the machine recount were in Chris’s favor by 42 votes?

And how about the ads, sponsored by the building trades council, crying about the marine who threw away his ballot because it arrives so late. Turns out all he had to do was mail it in and his vote would have counted. Not much fraud there. I know that many Rs said if Ds were too dumb to correctly fill out their ballot the votes shouldn’t count. Does that same theory hold for servicemen who didn’t know they could send in their ballot after election day?

We now have no choice but to let the courts work it out. I'm sure that if the Rs lose they will spend the next four years crying about how unfair it all was - just liike the Ds do over the 2000 election. So be it. Life is not always fair.