Crossposted from Preemptive Karma.
Today's Seattle Post Intelligencer lays out what I think is the main legal hurdle for the Rossi camp:
The heart of the Republicans' challenge so far is their contention that election workers in several counties fed 437 provisional ballots directly into vote-tabulating machines on election day without determining whether the voters were registered.
Provisional ballots are given to voters whose names don't show up on the registration rolls -- often because they recently moved from another precinct and sometimes because they're not registered voters. Election workers are supposed to set those ballots aside and verify them before adding them to the count. Provisional ballots look exactly like regular ballots, so once they're counted there's no way to go back and separate them out again.
Republicans say this allegation alone should be enough to nullify the election.
(more after the jump)
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