Posted on 12/17/2004 11:52:39 AM PST by kattracks
SEATTLE (AP) — With Washington state in the middle of a recount of its amazingly close governor's race, election officials in Seattle's King County entered a warehouse Friday and found a plastic tray containing 150 misplaced ballots.The discovery brings the number of belatedly discovered ballots to 723 in the heavily Democratic county — potentially enough to swing the election to Democrat Christine Gregoire.
Republican Dino Rossi won the Nov. 2 election over Gregoire by 261 votes in the first count and by just 42 after a machine recount of the 2.9 million ballots cast. On Thursday, with every county except King, Pierce and Spokane reporting, Rossi had pulled ahead by 74 votes.
The Republican Party went to court Friday to try to block, for the time being, the opening of those ballots. A judge set an afternoon hearing.
King County Elections Director Dean Logan told The Seattle Times that the ballots in the tray, like the 573 other ballots found earlier this week, were mistakenly rejected because there was a problem with how the voters' signatures had been scanned into the county's computer system. The tray apparently was left behind and forgotten in the warehouse, Logan said.
Election workers, along with observers from the political parties, searched the locked cage inside the warehouse.
The search of the warehouse was prompted by a curious finding: None of the envelopes of the 573 other ballots contained names beginning with the letters A or B, and only two started with C, The Times reported.
King County election officials want to count the ballots, which they say are valid votes. Republicans want those ballots to stay rejected — or at the very least, they want King County to investigate further before adding them to the mix.
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Election fraud continues.
This is becoming a parody of itself.
Right. Does anyone really believe that these ballots were misplaced?
I mean really, has there ever been a more blatant attempt to steal an election ever?
Quite a team of archaeologists they have there.
I just found some between the couch cushions!!!
Hmmm, I just found some uncounted Democrat ballots in my cats litter box too.
WAIT!
I have 34,328 ballots in my socks. 95% went pubbie.
The title in truth should say " MORE MANUFACTURED VOTES FOUND IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON "
What exactly is the implication of this? Why are there names on ballots anyway?
Media feeding off itself.
Where the hell is the US Justice Department?
And what else, empty chardonnay bottles and half eaten and now spoiled brie cheese trays.
Dandy point!
They mean, somehow, they conveniently got misplaced
We're printin' 'em as fast as we can, cap'n! If I try to print 'em any faster, she'll blow up!
Any election ballots not found by day two have to be null and void.
No way you can be so far out of an election and allow more ballots that were not mailed in from the military in.
This is a setup for fraud and election theft for sure.
Yep. If these people were Bible-believing folks you could be sure they would have found Noah's Ark by now.
The Dems are stealing this in broad daylight.
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