In this article, two political science professors - Jonathan Katz of Cal Tech, and Anthony Gill of the University of Washington - took the raw data numbers of improperly counted votes as supplied by the state GOP, looking at the number of felons who illegally voted, dead voters who voted, people who voted more than once, foreign nationals who voted, etc, crunched those numbers, and based on the percentage of votes won by each candidate in either specific precincts, or in the county as a whole, and subtracted those votes from the total. Their results? Katz came up with an approximate 100 vote margin in favor of Rossi, while Gill's total was closer to 200 votes in favor of Rossi.
The state GOP will be presenting this as an argument that the election results should be overturned and a new election be held, while the state Dems say that Washington State law doesn't allow this. Of course, the Dems have said other things aren't allowed by state law before in this case, and have been corrected. Hopefully this will also happen this coming May, when the case goes to trial on the 23rd.
Will Judge Bridges accept the GOP's argument, or will he side with the Dems? Guess we'll have to wait and see, but I have a hunch that he will side with the GOP.
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