Election official says 561 ballots wrongly rejected in Washington governor's race

Election official says 561 ballots wrongly rejected in Washington governor's race

Absolutely amazing! First, Dino Rossi wins by 261 votes. A mandatory recount of machine voting occurs. Now the margin is only 42 votes...what happened to 219 votes? And the Republicans began to squeal when Democrats demanded and paid for a hand recount. Doesn't the fact that 219 votes simply disappeared, bother the right wing? It seems to me that no matter what your political views are, you would want to get to the bottom of this mystery. All taxpayers/voters in the state should be appalled that voting can't be 100% perfect! And now to top it off...561 votes that were not counted. How many others are sitting in county vaults?

A odd little bit of news...when the USA audited the recent election in Venezuela...(We didn't like the results) the Venezuelans used electronic voting machines that provided a paper trail. Yet we seem to have a problem providing machines like that for ourselves? Maybe we should buy our voting machines from Venezuela.