The next court hearing in the Washington gubernatorial election contest is scheduled for this Friday at 9am local time. Judge Bridges is expected to set a date for the actual trial, presumably for sometime in March. He is also asked to clarify his earlier rulings on the standards that the Republicans need to meet in order to have the election set aside. The Republicans assert that it is sufficient to show that the sum total of administrative irregularities and illegal votes makes it impossible to know who really won the election. The Democrats are pushing for the implausibly strict standard that the Republicans must show which gubernatorial candidate got each alleged illegal vote.