Still Counting Votes . . .

Jesse Jackson comments loudly on some of the odd going-ons on in Ohio (you know, the state that decided the presidential election)-- where the votes still haven't been counted. He's now spear-heading the legal campaign to challenge the election results there, despite the fact that Kerry and the DNC has long since conceded. So says the Guardian. Democrats take their case to Ohio's Supreme Court today.

Meanwhile, the Gubernatorial race in Washington State was just decided by 42 votes in favor of the Republican candidate, a difference of 0.0014 percent. Wow. The Democrats are now forced to pay for a manual recount with a $750,000 price tag-- no doubt they'll fork over, since common wisdom says the error for voting machines is somewhere between 1 and 2 percent, or 1,000 times as great as the vote difference.

Think that's close? In Montana-- you know, the red state that voted overwhelmingly in favor of Bush-- the State House of Represenatives is currently tied 50-50 between between Democrats and Republicans, and a race in District 12 that would decided it in favor of the Democrats is, you guessed it, tied at 1,559 votes each for the Democrat and the Constitution Party candidate (the Republican finished a distant third behind him). The story just gets nuttier-- read it in full as reported by The Daily Kos.