Rossi Gains More in Hand Recount

Republican Governor-Elect Dino Rossi of Washington State has now gained 81 votes in the third vote count to add to his previous 42-vote lead. Still no King County numbers, where election officials are busy "finding" more votes every day. Will a 123-vote lead be enough to overcome King County's sleazy tricks?

Meanwhile the Seattle Times has moved dangerously into the realm of journalistic activism by publishing the names of those whose absentee ballots were rejected due to signature issues. It gives a contact number for those voters to reach the county elections department.

And Seattle Post-Unintelligencer columnist Joel Connelly, normally known as a more independent liberal, shows his true partisanship today, praising Democrats for standing firm in the gubernatorial race against the real villain, Republicans. He faults Gore for caving in too easily in Florida during the 2000 mess.

You can trust the Seattle media in this fiasco even less than King County Elections officials.