Reply #15: No, Gregoire insisted that the law be followed

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She invoked the law (nifty trick for a former attorney general), and insisted that the law be followed, as written by the legislature, enacted by the governor, and as historically interpreted by the courts. After a fair and lawful review of the legally cast ballots, it turns out that she picked up nearly 200 votes, enough to change the outcome.

Washington law doesn't provide for a "do over" vote, as Rossi is now looking for. He doesn't go to court, because he knows he doesn't have a legal leg to stand on. There is no authority in the Washington State Constitution, the Revised Code of Washington, or anywhere else that would allow for a re-vote. Rossi's legal avenues are foreclosed, and now he's appealing to public sentiment to achieve a victory he couldn't get at the polls or in the courts, and his partisans have succeeded in persuading some weak-minded people to say, "Aw shucks, let's do what Dino wants."

Forget it. This race is over, and the winner is Christine Gregoire.