John Fund has a nice little column on my buddy Stefan Sharkansky’s work to keep the Washington governor’s election honest:
The new media–talk radio, bloggers and independent watchdog groups–have followed up their success in exposing Dan Rather’s use of phony memos by showcasing another scandal: Washington state’s bizarre race for governor, which features a vote count so close and compromised it allows Florida to retire the crown for electoral incompetence. If Democrat Christine Gregoire, who leads by 129 votes and is scheduled to take the office Wednesday, eventually has to face a new election, it will have been in large part because of the new media’s ability to give the story altitude before it reached the courts.
The issue is far from settled, and Stefan’s work has given it a prominence that the Seatlle media wanted to avoid at all costs.