ABC News is reporting that the Democrat gubernatorial candidate Gregoire has won the recount with 130 votes. Throughout the recount King county has been finding hundreds of forgotten ballots that in the end tipped the race. (As we mentioned here, Dino won orignally with 261 votes. He also won the machine recount by 42 votes.)

Fortunately, the Republicans are not conceding — at least not yet. According the the Seatle Intelligencer :

“Gregoire has said “the election is over” and Republican Secretary of State Sam Reed agrees with her. He’ll certify the results Thursday. Before he does that, Rossi and the Republicans want county canvassing boards to reconsider rejected votes they say will help their cause.Gregoire is saying. . . .”

Sound Politics has been doing a suberb job covering this race. They’ve mentioned what I couldn’t help thinking; its one thing to have corruption in Ukraine, but in America we’d like to think a strong party machine couldn’t overturn elections.