Something Stinks in Seattle

You know, the Democrats can feel better about one thing -- they're successfully going to find a way to steal the Washington governor's race...

Five hundred sixty-one valid absentee ballots that had been erroneously rejected have been discovered in heavily Democratic King County, buoying Christine Gregoire's hopes of prevailing in a hand recount of the governor's race.

King County Elections Director Dean Logan announced the find yesterday. Hours later, lawyers for the county, the state and Republican Gov.-elect Dino Rossi appeared before the state Supreme Court to argue that counties should not be required to reinspect roughly 3,000 rejected ballots for the hand recount that began last week.

State Democrats filed a lawsuit seeking a ballot reinspection the same day they agreed to pay for a statewide hand recount of the governor's race. They hope additional scrutiny of previously uncounted ballots will give Gregoire enough new votes to reverse Rossi's victory.

Rossi won the first count by 261 votes. That set in motion a mandatory mechanical recount of more than 2.8 million votes, which Rossi won by 42 votes.

I'm sure they'll keep counting until Gregoire takes the lead, then call off the count. The more I think about it, the more I'm glad God spared us this mess in Ohio.