Will we get a governor for Christmas?

Washington State is still waiting to find out who the next governor will be. Is the drawn out process of recount, re-recount, and court challenges a fiasco? Or is the process just working itself out.

Amy What do these continuous legal challenges teach our children? That if they yell loud enough for long enough they will eventually get their way? That if we don't like the hand life deals us we should go to court? What ever happened to shaking your opponent's hand, offering congratulations, and bowing out gracefully?

Ron A revote is the only reasonable option. The fact is all human designed systems will have a margin of error the question is only weather or not we recognize that accuracy rate. Given the extremely close margin in this vote, we must revote and allow our citizens to decide the issue
knowing what they know now.
Frankly we ought to both admit the error rate of our election system and work to minimize it by treating our votes with the same sanctity we give to our dollars.

V. Hi Ross:
While it's rather unfortunate that some King County ballots got left out, it is remarkable how efficient and precise the counting has been over all. A 1000-vote error out of a million votes is
0.1%. According to this report, http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~voting/CalTech_MIT_Report_Version2.pdf the average error rates in 2000 were:
1.3 % - paper vballots
1.7% - lever machines
1.2% - optical scanning
1.6% - touch screen
2.0% - hand count
As you can see we are doing exceptionally well. I think this election exposes the flaws in a winner-take-all system. Maybe the winner could be governor for the first 2 years and the runner-up the following 2 years. That would be fair to all the voters.

Barbara Tacoma I wish you would have given more time to Allen towards the end of your program to express his more rational views rather than fritter it all away on the ill-conceived views from that shrill, rabid "Charlie," who spewed his Ann Coulteresque nonsense nonstop. When I talk to people of other political beliefs, I do my best to show respect and not get into namecalling and trash talk, ala Rush Limbaugh. But there is a certain breed of Republican who thinks it's just fine to engage in this sort of political putdown. What's even more appalling is that half the time they rely on stereotypes that don't necessarily hold any basis in reality. A case in point: "Charlie" made an erroneous illusion to Republicans using banks and Democrats using "casinos," apparently in an attempt to belittle Democrats and to imply that they are financially irresponsible. According to Bankrate.com, Democrats in general exhibit more financially responsible behavior than Republicans. Here's the paragraph and the URL: http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/financial-literacy2004/whos-literate.asp