and then the final analysis, a democrat, christine gregoire, ended up winning the hand recount by 129 votes out of 2.8 million. that is 56, 10 thousands of one person. one of the most important lessons i think that the public was how important it is that you be very conscientious when you vote to actually follow the rules, find out what you need to do, because while there were many mistakes made by election board workers and staff, vastly more were made by the voters. if they were supposed to fill in an oval and instead someone would circleville put an x. next to them in the question, what does this mean? or they would use the wrong kind of ink that the machine couldn't read, they forgot to sign it. it would have changed their names because they get married, didn't bother to change your voter registration so it was signed with a different name and all of a sudden election people are left saying, is this the right person who didn't change their address? the responsibility of citizenship and in the. >> to elections is excellent important to democracy and i think this is a rather compell

. >> christine gregoire was a washington attorney general, very well known and dino rossi was a well-knowntor, chairman of the ways and means committee, and also, things got really interesting during the primary. the primary was talked out by the courts so we had no legal primary in place and washington has a proud heritage of independence and voters cherish it and we were able to choose any candidate, the court throws out the primary and we end up with a different primary system that forced people, choose a party ballot and secretary of state sam reed fought successfully, a top two primary that is close to the old primary knowing what this heritage was and what voters wanted and would appreciate and it passed a gubernatorial veto. he had fought for something the voters wanted and in this end was charged as secretary of state at the time to educate voters, the primary system that he opposed, his duty is to educate voters about the ballots they will see in this field primary and so people just came, the emotions were very dramatic and face started contacting our office, as they wrote e-mail