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Third time's a charm: How the recount will work [Gregoire trying for 3rd time to steal WA GOV ]
Seattle PI.com ^ | December 3, 2004 | AP

Posted on 12/03/2004 11:02:27 PM PST by TheEaglehasLanded

Third time's a charm: How the recount will work

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

On Monday, Secretary of State Sam Reed will officially order a statewide hand recount of votes cast in the Washington governor's race. Here is how it will work:

THE WARMUP: Counties will need to hire and train temporary workers to recount the ballots by hand. Of course, they'll be competing against malls and other stores for seasonal workers.

THE COUNTERS: Three-person teams will do the work, with two people counting the ballots and one recording the votes.

King County elections officials plan to hire 160 temporary workers, 80 recommended by the Republican Party and 80 recommended by the Democratic party. Each three-person team will consist of one Democrat, one Republican, and one county elections worker. Other counties plan to do the same.

THE PUBLIC: The hand recount is open to observers and members of the public, just as the original vote-counting and the first recount were.

THE TIMELINE: The hand recount should finish by Dec. 23. That's the estimate from King County, which has the most ballots to count and plans to have workers recounting votes seven days a week.

THE CONTROVERSY: The big question is whether the recount will include "new" votes - ballots that were not counted the first two times, for various reasons. The state Democratic Party announced plans Friday to go to court over that issue.

WILL IT EVER END? This is the final recount allowed by state law. The winner of this recount will be the governor. But court action could complicate the ending. The inauguration is scheduled for Jan. 12.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: courts; democrooks; demorats; dinorossi; elections; gregoire; recount; rossi; stealing; voterfraud
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send money to dinorossi.com or http://www.wsrp.org/. Considering they found 15,000 votes in King county just 2 days before 1st count was over. Went to homes of rejected provisional ballot voters homes and asked who they voted for and if they said Rossi they left and if they said Gregoire the corrected the application and turned it in.

On recount in King County Dems took ballots that were rejected by machine and interpreted who they voted for which amounted to about 750 new votes.

Now they want to go thru previously rejected provisional ballots, this is not a recount it's fishing for votes.

1 posted on 12/03/2004 11:02:28 PM PST by TheEaglehasLanded
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To: TheEaglehasLanded

THE CONTROVERSY: The big question is whether the recount will include "new" votes - ballots that were not counted the first two times, for various reasons. The state Democratic Party announced plans Friday to go to court over that issue.


Hence, stealing the election. They got a liberal Judge in King County to allow ballots which were dis-allowed originally for very good reasons. The Democrats brought the courts into this at the start! This whole thing is a disaster by Democrats! Rossi won the election. Rossi won the recount (even with all the shenanigans the dems pulled off). If this whole thing was reversed, I would demand that my Candidate concede. As it is, my Candidate WON! TWICE! This is just another of many reasons why I am now a Republican, after 20 years of being a Democrat!


2 posted on 12/03/2004 11:09:58 PM PST by Just Lori (Before you can win the peace, you have to win the WAR!!!)
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To: Spanaway Lori

DEMS MOTTO ; COUNT ALL THE VOTES UNTIL WE WIN


3 posted on 12/03/2004 11:12:08 PM PST by TheEaglehasLanded
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To: Spanaway Lori; TheEaglehasLanded
Unfortunately, the Democrat's embrace of the mantra, "The third time's the charm", extends to grand larceny.

Particularly, as it regards tight elections.

4 posted on 12/03/2004 11:15:54 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham
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To: TheEaglehasLanded

Visions of Florida! I remember the night of the election, Bush had like a 60,000 ballot lead over Gore. I worked for the next 3 days an the next time I looked at the news Bush's lead was down to like 3000 votes. Little by little the RATS counting in back rooms kept throwing out Bush's votes and tallying up more for Gore.And destroying all the military ballots.This seems like the same thing. GGGRRRRR Where is Rossi in all this it seems all I hear is from the infuriating Dems. I hope Rossi's got some great GOP lawyers there,cause these RATS are licking their chops in anticipation of stealing this one!


5 posted on 12/03/2004 11:19:50 PM PST by Bush gal in LA (Armed with what? SPITBALLS? Zell Miller)
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To: TheEaglehasLanded
Christine Gregoire-Gore. She said she was confident she WON the election... STRANGE considering she was the LOSER in BOTH counts so far. ARe all our elections now best 2 out of 3? 4 out of 7? 5 out of 9? What?

First Dino won by 261 votes - not valid. Then Dino won by 42 votes. Not a win. So now if Cheating Chrissy wins by 5 votes it's OK? Unbelievable

6 posted on 12/03/2004 11:20:34 PM PST by Libertina (We praise You Lord, You have granted America a Christian leader!)
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To: TheEaglehasLanded

If they don't get the rejected ballots involved in the count, it won't matter, Dino will still win.

If they do, they probably will win, but man oh man is that going to be a legal nightmare.


7 posted on 12/03/2004 11:23:31 PM PST by zbigreddogz
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To: TheEaglehasLanded

Well, do the WA Republicans have a plan if the Democrats win this election by "interpreting" more ballots?

It seems to me the election officials that did so in the previous recount should currently be in jail...


8 posted on 12/03/2004 11:34:14 PM PST by swilhelm73 (Dowd wrote that Kerry was defeated by a "jihad" of Christians...Finally – a jihad liberals oppose!)
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To: Libertina
Christine Gregoire-Gore. She said she was confident she WON the election... STRANGE considering she was the LOSER in BOTH counts so far. ARe all our elections now best 2 out of 3? 4 out of 7? 5 out of 9? What?

All that matters with a lot of lefties are feeling . . . If she feels she won the election, it must be so.

9 posted on 12/03/2004 11:37:27 PM PST by gop_gene
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To: TheEaglehasLanded

I have to quit watching this circus by Jan 31 -that's when the Michael Jackson trial starts..can you ping me if it drags on later than that..lol


10 posted on 12/03/2004 11:39:00 PM PST by Recall
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To: Recall
By the time they recount the votes for the 119th time, it will time for the Washington State voters to vote again. By the way, with the Dems playing their games, who is going to lead the state??
11 posted on 12/03/2004 11:46:57 PM PST by antiunion person (Everything I Say is Fully Substantiated by my Own Opinion)
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To: Spanaway Lori

They got a liberal Judge in King County to allow ballots which were dis-allowed originally for very good reasons.

This liberal judge ruled against the state constitution and allowed the disallowed votes. Judicial activism is taking this country down. We need to have judges subject to the same law as electing representatives. Maybe then they would begin to see the logic to ruling on the rule of law which is the will of the people and not establishing law from the bench. The black robe is beginning to signify the death of democracy.


12 posted on 12/03/2004 11:51:34 PM PST by taxesareforever
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To: taxesareforever
They got a liberal Judge in King County to allow ballots which were dis-allowed originally for very good reasons.

Many judges in Washington State are elected. It is time to take names and toss out these liberal judges at the ballot box so they can no longer play legislator.

13 posted on 12/04/2004 12:01:34 AM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: TheEaglehasLanded

If the ballots have not been kept under lock and key and armed guard since the last count, the next count will show a Demonrat win.


14 posted on 12/04/2004 12:02:33 AM PST by fire_eye (Socialism is the opiate of academia.)
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To: Robert357

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Toss out liberal judges in King County! Riiigggghhhhttt....

That's a good one.



15 posted on 12/04/2004 12:06:08 AM PST by zbigreddogz
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To: TheEaglehasLanded
Went to homes of rejected provisional ballot voters homes and asked who they voted for and if they said Rossi they left and if they said Gregoire the corrected the application and turned it in.

Sounds like a violation of the equal protection provision of the Constitution to me.

16 posted on 12/04/2004 12:09:55 AM PST by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington (Patriotism is patriotic.)
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To: TheEaglehasLanded
The winner of this recount will be the governor.

Whose bright idea is this? Is this what state law dictates? A hand recount is less accurate than a machine count. Rossi won the count and the first recount. In my universe, if he loses the second recount he's still governor because he won two out of three.

17 posted on 12/04/2004 12:11:58 AM PST by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington (Patriotism is patriotic.)
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To: taxesareforever

Judicial activism is an act of war upon the people and should be punished by death.


18 posted on 12/04/2004 12:15:35 AM PST by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington (Patriotism is patriotic.)
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To: Spanaway Lori

This makes me sick.


19 posted on 12/04/2004 12:15:38 AM PST by MarMema
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To: antiunion person

Secty. of State, Sam Reed, is saying that Locke will have to remain in office until his successor is elected & sworn in....sheesh! Talk about a lame duck, Locke's about as lame as you can get. He chose not to run for re-election because he was convinced that he'd lose. If Locke didn't think the Seattle liberals would vote him back in for a third term, who would have imagined that they'd vote for Gregroire? The woman is an incompetent who cost the state at least 20 million on a single bungled case. She's pathetic.


20 posted on 12/04/2004 12:16:13 AM PST by torqemada ("Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!")
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