With the election happening nearly 5 months ago, Washington's governor's race is still being contested. For those of you who may have forgotten, Republican Dino Rossi won the first two ballot counts, only to have it stolen by Democrat Christine Gregoire who insisted on recounting until she was declared the winner. Rossi's counts were done by machine - which are likely to be much more accurate especially considering they were machine ballots - in accordance with Washington election law. Gregoire's "victory" was given to her by an illegal hand recount, with huge inroads being made in heavily democratic King County where ballots continued to be "discovered" after the fact.

In fact, just this week another batch of ballots was "found" in King County, reports the Seattle Times.

Over the past week, election workers have found 87 valid absentee ballots that had been left in their envelopes and not counted through three tallies of the closest statewide race in Washington history. The ballots were in archival boxes and were found when election workers were looking for something else.

The first of the ballots were found March 24, but officials did not publicly acknowledge the problem until a reporter asked them about it yesterday. After the initial discovery, Election Director Dean Logan ordered a search through more than a half-million absentee envelopes to look for other ballots that might not have been counted. [...]

The ballots were still sealed inside their original envelopes. Porter said he had told officials not to open the envelopes or count the ballots unless ordered to do so by a court.

The ballots were found when officials were looking into allegations that more than 900 felons were illegally allowed to vote. Gregoire "defeated" Republican Dino Rossi by 129 votes.