Do We Really Need To Count ALL The Votes? Huckabee thinks so.

Do we really need to count ALL the votes? Huckabee thinks we do. — by Catherine Morgan (cross-posted at Care2 Election Blog)

Can you imagine the outrage, if someone had called last Sunday night’s Super Bowl early??? Or your bank teller stopped counting your $100 at 95, and told you it was close enough? What if your boss just “guesstimated” your paycheck? When it comes to our money, we want it all counted…But, when it comes to our votes it doesn’t matter???

Huckabee: Washington State Vote Like the Soviet Union…

“That is not what we do in American elections,” Huckabee said on CNN’s American Morning Monday. “Maybe that’s how they used to conduct it in the old Soviet Union, but you don’t just throw people’s votes out and say, ‘well, we’re not going to bother counting them because we kind of think we know where this was going.’

In a statement released Sunday, Huckabee’s campaign said Washington’s GOP Party Chairman Luke Esser called the race for McCain when Huckabee was only losing to the Arizona senator by 242 votes and over 1,500 votes remained to be counted. Esser has said he remains confident he made the right call.

Speaking on CNN, Huckabee said the campaign has sent lawyers to the state to formally challenge the result.

“I was just stunned,” Huckabee said. “It’s the kind of thing that Republicans across America, not just in Washington State, ought to be outraged over.”

The former Arkansas governor also brushed aside McCain’s claim of being the presumptive nominee, citing his wins in Kansas and Louisiana over the weekend.

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Why Should Washington State Be Any Different?

What do you think? Should we count all the votes? Or is guesstimating the elections good enough?

Breaking News: Rep. Tom Lantos Dies

From the Associated Press…

Rep. Tom Lantos of California, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress, has died, his spokeswoman said Monday.

Lynne Weil said that Lantos, 80, passed away at the Bethesda Naval Medical Center in suburban Maryland.

Lantos, a Democrat who chaired the House Foreign Affairs Committee, disclosed last month that he had been diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus.