Gregoire the winner anyway?

The Seattle Times reports in a copyrighted story in its Sunday, May 22, edition that it analyzed both the Republican and Democrat lists of felons who allegedly voted in the gubernatorial election last November, and figured the new election results based on the Republicans' proportional reduction method. Guess what: Gregoire wins anyway.

This comes on the eve of the beginning of the trial to determine whether all votes were cast legally and counted properly.

Here are the first few grafs of the story:

For months, state Republicans have insisted that hundreds of votes cast illegally by felons put Democrat Christine Gregoire in the governor's mansion.

But a Seattle Times analysis finds that even if those votes were disqualified, Gregoire would still prevail over GOP challenger Dino Rossi.

That finding undercuts what has been the most prominent element of the Republicans' case to overturn the election. The case moves to trial in Wenatchee tomorrow.

Gregoire won the election by a scant 129 votes — and only after Rossi finished ahead in the first two of three vote counts.

You can read the full story and view the interesting graphics here.

The Republicans produced a list of 946 felons who allegedly voted. The list was criticized because it contained some people who did not lose voting rights, and the R's were accused of "cherry-picking" the felons because the people resided in counties where Gregoire won most of the votes. Democrats countered with their own list of 794 illegal felon votes from counties all over the state; Rossi won 31 of 39 counties. After The Seattle Times ran the numbers, Gregoire still wins by 112 votes.

-- Wenatchee, Wash.