Burner (D) 49%, Reichert (R) 51%, 75% of precincts reporting

[usregimechange]

This is Washington's 8th District. Burner has conceded the race! Why? One quarter of the votes are left to be counted and 2% seperates them!
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/states/WA/H/08/index.html

Burner congratulated the former King County sheriff in a Monday night phone call, but she refused to publicly concede the race until a Tuesday morning news conference.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420ap_wa_reichert_burner.html

Ask Burner if she knows CNN still has her race in the "too close to call" category!

You can contact the campaign in the following ways:
email: [e-mail]
phone:
Headquarters: [phone]
Auburn Office: [phone]
post: Darcy Burner for Congress
P.O. Box 1090
Carnation, WA 98014
address:

Darcy Burner for Congress HQ
12443 Bel Red Rd, Suite 310
Bellevue, WA 98005
http://www.darcyburner.com/contactus.php

[Richard Steele]

1. COUNT EVERY VOTE, DAMMIT! nm

[usregimechange]

2. The Wash SOS has more votes in but doesn't say what % of

precincts are in...

http://vote.wa.gov/elections/general/Results.aspx?o=7b7f42a5-3c6e-4bd1-92d5-0e11d5bd6d16

[rsmith6621]

3. 75% of precincts reportingPLUS......

20,000 Absentee ballots from people who where decided to drop their ballots off at the polling place....King County is still deciding if they will count them...

[usregimechange]

5. Do you have their contact info?

[bahrbearian]

11. Damn I wish I would have mailed it in.

It cost 68 cents to mail it.

[Herman Munster]

4. politicans concede when they know they lost

The rest of the 25% of the precincts must be coming from republican areas.

[usregimechange]

7. If that is so they have information that isn't available to us

[rpannier]

6. It probably depends on where the votes that haven't been counted are coming in from

If they're from staunchly republikkan areas and their pollng shows the votes went against her, that's why she's conceding.
They'll count all the votes.
In the event it shows her the winner, then she'll get the seat.

[usregimechange]

8. We are hearing that King Co may not count them

[uppityperson]

9. they aren't. They are in King Co (Seattle) which is quite blue.

letter written.

[usregimechange]

10. Posted by DU member satya in Wash:

Based on an estimate I read in the PI. One of those votes is mine. I called KingCo this a.m. and the person who answered assured me that all the votes would be counted, but the Canvassing Board is meeting at 1:30 today to discuss the "recommendation" that all the votes be counted.

So maybe Bush v. Gore didn't establish a legal precedent, but it certainly seems to have led to the situation where counting ALL the votes is considered optional.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=184x10395

[Generic Other]

12. I have been wondering about this since it was announced

Not count all the votes? WTF? I don't get it.