I know it sounds too crazy to be true, but King County is now looking for 162 more ballots to include in their hand recount:

King County election officials will enter a locked "cage" in a warehouse this morning to look for a plastic mail tray they believe contains up to 162 misplaced absentee ballots.

Elections Director Dean Logan said the ballots, like 573 other ballots that were improperly rejected, were set aside because workers couldn't find voter signatures that corresponded to them.

But unlike the other ballots, these apparently were left behind and forgotten. The original 573 votes were mistakenly identified as having mismatched signatures and then disqualified.

If the ballots are found, it means King County could count up to 735 ballots that have not been counted in the two previous tallies. That could give a significant advantage to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Christine Gregoire in a county where she holds a strong lead over Republican Dino Rossi.

Just a recap for those who haven't been paying attention. Dino Rossi won the initial tabulation. He then won the machine recount, by a mere 42 votes. The third count, a hand recount, is getting fishier each day as Democratic bastion King County continues to regularly "find" new ballots to count. At this point, the election appears hopelessly tainted.

I heard this via email from my Mom and confirmed it over at Sound Politics. One other thing she mentioned and was also touched on in the comments at Sound Politics was this:

One write-in ballot had Christine Rossi written in. [Ed. - the candidates are Dino Rossi and Christine Gregoire.] Instead of throwing it out because there is no one with that name running for office, the canvasing board gave it to Christine Gregoire. ??????????????? Alot of people are calling for a new election. I would agree with that. This whole process is so corrupt there is no way correct it without starting over.

Completely incredible.

UPDATE: No surprise here...they found 150 ballots in their descent into the "cage".