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Voting by dead people isn't always a scam
Seattle Times ^ | 1/7/05 | Justin Mayo, Christine Willmsen, Mike Carter and Cheryl Phillips

Posted on 01/07/2005 10:12:48 AM PST by BurbankKarl

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To: Robe

Darn - beat me to it!


21 posted on 01/07/2005 10:41:38 AM PST by Stone Mountain
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To: BurbankKarl

The Democratic Party fully supports the Civil Rights of Necro-Americans!


22 posted on 01/07/2005 10:43:12 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Deadcheck the embeds first.)
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To: SandyInSeattle
I'm amazed the lengths the Seattle media will go to in order to protect Gregoire's butt.
Forging a ballot is illegal, period.

Well said. The MSM is doing everything in their power to ignore this mess. It is a good thing that the public is demaning that things be examined.

What I find totally beyond belief it that neither the Seattle Times, the PI, the TNT, the Everet Herald, or the east side papers have cornered Ron Sims and asked him what went wrong.

I think they are trying to protect Ron as much as they are Chris.

23 posted on 01/07/2005 10:47:54 AM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: CharliefromKS

Yeah... It's that same "right or wrong" thinking that gets me in trouble with my teenager! :-)


24 posted on 01/07/2005 10:52:19 AM PST by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Pajama Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: Robert357
I think they are trying to protect Ron as much as they are Chris.

Bingo.

25 posted on 01/07/2005 10:53:04 AM PST by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Pajama Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: BurbankKarl

You know this article is part of the cover-up when they use what is probably the only example in the state of someone casting an illegal vote for Rossi/Bush as their lead-in. How much do you want to bet that they had to check around a lot before they found this guy?


26 posted on 01/07/2005 10:55:45 AM PST by thoughtomator (Flush twice, it's a long way to France)
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To: BurbankKarl
"Nobody has ever questioned me," said Maxine A. Zemko. "That's part of why I kept doing it, because I wondered how long it would take for them to figure it out. I guess I should fix it."

Typical Dem attitude - wait years and years for the government to do something that you should take responsibility for yourself.

27 posted on 01/07/2005 10:57:01 AM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: thoughtomator

Who says this guy is real. He could be made up out of whole cloth.


28 posted on 01/07/2005 10:58:09 AM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: BurbankKarl

Not a good example in there. My grandmother almost voted dead though, right after she sent in her absentee ballot she got really sick, was in the hospital during the election. It can happen legitimately, but it's probably pretty rare.


29 posted on 01/07/2005 11:01:08 AM PST by discostu (mime is money)
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To: SandyInSeattle; All
Yes indeed...MSM alert, Washington style! Read this article excerpt, and then answer the following two-part question:

Anne Witte's absentee-ballot envelope from the November election is signed in what looks like her elegant script, with a flowing W and looped T's.

But Witte, a longtime Republican activist from Sammamish, could not have penned the signature. She died in February.

Vernon Witte, her husband, said he never saw the ballot and thinks it might have been stolen from his mailbox.

According to the election office, Anne Witte's ballot was postmarked Oct. 28. The signature on the ballot envelope, shown to The Times, closely matched that on Anne Witte's voter-registration card.

Dean Logan, head of King County elections, said the matched signatures made him question the authenticity of Anne Witte's original card. "I want to do more research," he said.

The question: who did "Anne Witte" vote for? if you answered "Rossi/Bush", what made you think that?

Of course, I'm sure you and others on this thread were not fooled by this article, but this type of biased reporting really frosts me, and it can fool some of the voting public!!!

BTW, who's Dean Logan? and I'm sure glad you FReepers and other kindred spirits out there are keeping Gregoire's feet to the fire...if all else fails, call the FBI!! The rest of the Republic is depending on you all to call them on this...it ain't Florida or Ohio this time, it's real and these "irregularities" (HA) must not go unchallenged!!

FReegards from Ohio... / rant...LOL!

30 posted on 01/07/2005 11:03:06 AM PST by 88keys
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To: BurbankKarl

Last I looked, one of the prerequisites for voting is that the voter be breathing (i.e.: alive)

I love it----talk about taking the 'intent' of the voter to the extreme.

*geez*


31 posted on 01/07/2005 11:04:33 AM PST by fastattacksailor (The US without the UN is like not having your mother-in-law with you on your honeymoon)
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To: sgtbono2002

Your skepticism is well warranted, probably more accurate than my guess!


32 posted on 01/07/2005 11:10:23 AM PST by thoughtomator (Flush twice, it's a long way to France)
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To: ScottFromSpokane
You are right. No Republican would call her "Governor-elect Gregoire". If they didn't give her a derisive nickname, they would just call her "Gregoire". What do you want to bet that Robert Holmgren just happens to be a Democrat activist?

This is so transparent. Why Republicans are in on this too! Any coincidence that their main example is a Republican? I don't care if he gave $2000 to Bush (he didn't, nor did his wife give a dime to anybody) he forged her signature and knew what he was doing. Felony + 1 year in jail.


33 posted on 01/07/2005 11:10:31 AM PST by AmishDude
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To: BurbankKarl
what a timely piece of propaganda by the depraved demohomosexualistas
34 posted on 01/07/2005 11:12:33 AM PST by DBeers
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To: fastattacksailor
Why would you want to disenfranchise the dead?

Equal voting rights for dead people too!!!! LOLOLOL

35 posted on 01/07/2005 11:16:40 AM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: AmishDude

"...her mother's been dead over 20 years! How would she know what her mom would have wanted? Why would she vote in her mother's name and not her own for 20 years?"

Who says she voted in her mother's name and NOT her own?
Why not vote under BOTH names? I'm sure she did!


36 posted on 01/07/2005 11:19:22 AM PST by Shazolene
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To: Robert357
Who's Ron Sims?

Just curious! We in Ohio have called Sec./State Blackwell to support and thank him after the trashing he took yesterday in Congress...many here on both sides know he's an honest man, there were the usual unfortunate "imperfections" in the election process (guess which precincts? LOL!!) but there was no vote fraud aside from some earlier dubious voter registrations (again, guess which "side"?) and the CBC, Tubbs-Jones and others were absolutely disgraceful with that!!

37 posted on 01/07/2005 11:20:33 AM PST by 88keys
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To: BurbankKarl

I worked the Republican telephone banks for several months here in Oregon before the election. Oregon is a one hundred percent vote-by-mail state. I lost count of the people I asked for to be told they had been dead for quite some time. At least twenty percent had moved, but were still on the voter rolls. Others I called at their listed out-of-state phone number had been living in the other states for some time. Some said they were voting in the other state and wanted to know what to do with the Oregon ballot. Some people I called had listed a cell phone number with out-of-state prefixes.

I spent the last week of the election every day going door to door to remind people to vote and also picking up votes to deliver to the county election office. I was assigned to precincts that had large assisted living facilities and elder care homes. Several people at those facilities told me their son, daughter, or grandchild had their ballots. Several said they didn't know if they received their ballots, but they were listed as voting in every recent election. People told me their children were at college in a different county and had received a ballot at each address. They asked what to do with the extra ballot. Several people told me the person I was looking for was their child who lived in another state and was voting there, but they still got the Oregon ballots at their parent’s address. Every requested absentee ballot in our county was followed by a second ballot this election by mistake. There is no statewide database of voters so you could potentially get a vote-by-mail ballot in each county. I believe Oregon’s vote-by-mail system provides for massive voter fraud.

I believe that there should be a national voter database. I agree with the DemocRats when they say every vote should count. Where we disagree is every vote should be validated and should only count once.


38 posted on 01/07/2005 11:22:10 AM PST by ORECON (Condi Rice/Ann Coulter 2008)
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To: AmishDude
Other ballots also defy easy explanation. Marcia Pettersen, 54, the daughter of Joan MacDonald, said she had been picking up the mail for her mother since the 81-year-old woman died last August. MacDonald was credited with voting by absentee.

Nothing like a close reading, LOL! Her Mom passes on in August, and the daughter still hasn't stopped the mail?!?!

Gee, it's a good thing there were only 24 dead people voting, and even though 22 were in the crucial King County, that still isn't enough to swing the election...! /heavy sarcasm

39 posted on 01/07/2005 11:31:08 AM PST by 88keys
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To: SandyInSeattle
>>>"I know by the law it wasn't right, but it felt right in my heart," <<<

Now if he will just apologize, everything will be OK.

[/sarcasm]

40 posted on 01/07/2005 11:41:12 AM PST by HardStarboard (PASS)
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