Losing an election is hard. Just ask me, I’ve done it twice. It would be so much easier to blame a rigged election than to accept that maybe you just weren’t the best fit for the position. We’ve been playing “blame the system” since hanging chads in Florida absorbed the nation’s attention in the 2000 presidential election. Then there’s Washington’s 2004 gubernatorial election, where King County found more ballots just in time for the third counting in the Rossi-Gregoire race. Gregoire was declared the winner with a mere 129 vote margin out of 2,746,589 votes cast.
