Reply #9: WA: Rossi continues campaign for new election

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Friday, December 31st, 2004

Rossi continues campaign for new election
BRAD SHANNON THE OLYMPIAN


Republican Dino Rossi, unwilling to concede that he has lost the Washington governor's race by 129 votes in a manual recount, said Thursday that he's pushing forward with an effort to learn what went wrong in the election.

Rossi, a real-estate agent from Sammamish, held a news conference in Bellevue, where he told reporters that he still has questions about how some votes were counted -- and others were not allowed -- in the closest governor's race in U.S. history.
Rossi also brought out a Snohomish County couple -- Charles and Marty Farmer -- whose son, Tyler, is a Marine injured while fighting in Iraq. Tyler Farmer didn't get his ballot until Nov. 3, one day after the election, they said. It was part of Rossi's public relations campaign to build support for a new election early next year, which he says is needed to build public confidence.

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Options for the Rossi campaign include filing a lawsuit or seeking what is known as an "election contest" in the Democrat-controlled Legislature, which could, in theory, vote to set aside the election results.

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http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20041231/topstories/59663.shtml