Posted on 11/29/2004 8:55:39 AM PST by MB6.3
JOHN FUND ON THE TRAIL Florida Northwest Will Democrats steal the Washington governorship? Monday, November 29, 2004 12:01 a.m. EST The country dodged a repeat of the 2000 Florida election debacle this year because George W. Bush's margin in the decisive state of Ohio was 136,000 votes. But the one out of 50 Americans who live in Washington state are living through a Florida-style nightmare, with Republican Dino Rossi clinging to a 42-vote lead over Democrat Christine Gregoire
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You know what they say. It isn't over till Christine Gregoire sings. Boy does this have shades of Chicago and Dick Dailey. This should now become known as the Dick Dailey rule of politics.
same old playbook - if you can't win then manufacture more votes & reinterpret the legislature through the courts - looks like they're trying to steal another election
what a great example we're setting for the rest of the world. why would any country want a democracy modeled after ours when its becoming a joke? shame on the dems for taking all of us collectively down the john.
This is close. They will steal it. At the very least, they will try.
In Seattle's King County alone the vote counting so far has featured such anomalies as 10,000 ballots being mysteriously discovered nearly two weeks after Election Day, election officials "enhancing" hundreds of unreadable optical-scan ballots, and a judge allowing political partisans to selectively track down voters who cast questionable provisional ballots to see if they could turn them into valid votes.
They've already stolen themselves 99% of the way to victory, with only 42 votes left, you can be sure they'll 'find' some more in the recount.
I hope we can hang on. But even if the dems steal it, they know there's a change comin'. The days of this being their state are over.
But Washington state's mess should remind us that it is still imperative to clean up our election systems, better educate voters, develop more precise rules on how provisional ballots should be treated, and discourage judges from "interpreting" the election rules in creative ways that second-guess the intent of legislators.
Fund suggests that what is needed are more and "better" laws. Wrong. A set of rules precise enough to stop Democratic cheating cannot be created. The only way this crap will stop will be for the Craps to stop challenging every election they lose.
Actually, I think that King County did about all they could without being blatantly obviously corrupt. They effectively conducted a hand recount for all purposes. They might be able to devine another 10 or 20 votes, but probably not much more than than (unless they find some like Snohomish County did).
I would expect that for the Dems to get the full 40 plus votes they need they will need to focus on four of five different counties and really milk the provisional and undervote categories.
I also think they would want to find a west side of the Cascades Democratic county that used punchcard voting. Most of the punch card counties were strong Republican rural counties. My guess is that the Dem's will focus on Whatcom, Grays Harbor, Clark and Jefferson counties.
Now which party is the party of the trial lawyers association?
How Democrats Steal Elections - Top 10 Methods of Liberal Vote Fraud
1. Over-Voting. In Democrat strongholds like St. Louis, Philadelphia and Detroit, some precincts had 100% of their registered voters voting, with 99% of the ballots going to Gore. Clearly, multiple voting resulted in extra tallies for Gore in the 2000 election. (New York Post, 12/09/00).
2. Dead Voters. This classic Democratic method of vote fraud goes all the way back to 1960 in Chicago and Dallas. The 2000 election was no exception. In Miami-Dade County, for example, some of the 144 ineligible votes (those which officials actually admitted to) were cast by dead people, including a Haitian-American who's been deceased since 1977 (Miami-Herald, 12/24/00).
3. Mystery Voters. These "voters" cast votes anyway but are not even registered to vote. In heavily Democratic Broward County, for example, more than 400 ballots were cast by non-registered voters. (Miami-Herald 1/09/01)
4. Military ballots. Many of these votes were disqualified for the most mundane and trivial reasons. At least 1,527 valid military ballots were discarded in Florida by Democratic vote counters (Drudge Report, 11/19/00).
5. Criminals. Felons are a natural Democratic voter and they're protected on voter rolls across the country. In Florida at least 445 ex-convicts - including rapists and murderers -- voted illegally on November 7th. Nearly all of them were registered Democrats. (Miami-Herald 12/01/00)
6. Illegal aliens. These voters have long been a core liberal constituency, especially in California. In Orange County in 1996, Rep. Bob Dornan had his congressional seat stolen from him when thousands of illegal aliens voted for Loretta Sanchez (Christian Science Monitor, 9/2/97).
7. Vote-buying. Purchasing votes has long been a traditional scheme by Democrats, and not just with money. In the 2000 election in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Democratic workers initiate a "smokes-for-votes" campaign in which they paid dozens of homeless men with cigarettes if they cast ballots for Al Gore (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 11/14/00).
8. Phantom Voters. These voters don't really exist, but their ballots do. In the 1996 Lousiana Senate race, GOP candidate Woody Jenkins had the election stolen from him when he discovered that 7,454 actual votes were cast but had no paper trail to authenticate them (Behind the Headlines, F.R. Duplantier, 4/27/97).
9. Dimpled chads. Those infamous punch-cards were a ballot bonanza for Al Gore. Democratic poll workers in Palm Beach, Dade and Broward counties tampered and manipulated thousands of ineligible ballots and counted them for Gore, even though no clear vote could be discerned. (NewsMax.com 11/27, 12/22, 11/18, 11/19/00).
10. Absentee ballots. Normally it's assumed that Republicans benefit from absentee ballots. But in the case of Miami's 1997 mayoral election, hundreds of absentee ballots were made for sale or sent out to non-Miami residents. Fraud was so extensive in the race that the final results were overturned in court (FL Dept. of Law Enforcement Report, 1/5/98)."
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