Many of you no doubt have already seen this
Judge Blocks Recount as it is currently running on the yahoo main page.
What the hell has this country come to? Has politics become that much of a nasty, dirty win at any costs game? Of course we also see the fallout of Gore v. Bush besides having an asshole in office. From the article
"From reading state law and state Supreme Court decisions, "it is clear to me that it is not appropriate to go back and revisit decisions on whether ballots should or should not be counted," Arend [the judge] said."
I guess the argument that counting votes could hurt the presumptive winners' legitimacy really made sense to this judge. Am I the only one who would be crying foul if the shoe were on the other foot and we were winning by 50 votes. What a sad day. Also from the article:
"Jack Oxford is one of the voters whose ballots Arend said should not be counted.
"She said, 'Jack, your vote doesn't count,'" said Oxford, 50, an electrical field supervisor from Enumclaw. "I'm very upset, very distressed.""
I don't have the time at the moment, but I wonder what you resourceful Dkossers could find out about the good judge and where to go from here. I'm pissed.