WA Gov. Race: Court rules against Gregoire (w/update on 561 or 573 or 595 ballots)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | 15 December 2004 | Chris McGann

[C210N]

I'm a Washington Resident, and I had an honest calendar malfunction. This malfunction caused me to miss voting on Nov 2.

596.

[writer33]

The funny thing is that they don't even do this under the cover of night anymore. They're blatant about theft now.

[jocko12]

It must be time for the best 5 out of 8 recounts.Just ask the whacky judge if this is true.

[The_Victor]

"At this point it is impossible for us to determine whether they are colossally incompetent or completely corrupt."

Sounds like an accurate description of the democRAT party to me.

[writer33]

Yep. We must be fair and count as many times as it takes for Gregoire to win. So the best of sounds like the right course here.

[Publius]

That bump from 88 to 106 was 18 new votes for Rossi. That is why King County needed to come up with 22 more votes. They know exactly how those ballots have been voted, and they will come up with the exact number needed to win this race.

Until last night, I was ready to believe in colossal incompetance. Now I believe it's fraud.

[petconservative]

stinkin cheaters

[writer33]

Yep. It's definitely fraud.

[Publius]

Ping. And ping anybody else who needs to read this.

[pabianice]

Hey. It's worked for IL and MI since 1960. Why should WA not also take advantage of this tactic?

[Chad Fairbanks]

Ping!

[Snardius]

The political wag in my office says, "Washington State is bankrupt already. If Gregoire and the Democrats are smart, they'll let Rossi win and then blame the looming fiscal crisis on him and the Republicans."

[Congressman Billybob]

This article makes it crystal clear that different counties in Washington State will use different standards in reviewing the votes in this election. That was the PRECISE constitutional error that the US Supreme Court found that Florida officials were committing in the 2000 presidential election.

Washington Republicans need to take this week's decision of the Washington Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court and CRAM them down the throats of the Democrats who are trying to steal this election.

Congressman Billybob

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[animoveritas]

Gregoire stands to whittle down Rossi's lead by approximately 80 votes if the new King County votes follow the countywide trend

I guess that means they need to find another 120 or so more ballots on the floorboards of the trucks transporting the voting machines back to the warehouse.

[zbigreddogz]

So, if Gregoire wins, does anybody know Washington's recall provision? I know we have one, and I think it would be EASY to get it on the ballot. People are fuming about this, even people who voted for Gregoire.

[No_Outcome_But_Victory]

Republican Secretary of State Sam Reed also did not agree with Vance's assertion about the votes in King County.

Reed might as well just change parties now. He's finished!

[OneTimeLurker]

Um the SCOTUS said Bush V Gore ONLY applied to that case. Otherwise it would have invalidated hundreds of other elections. That's why they took the unprecedented step of saying that it ONLY applied to the particular case and had no baring on past or future cases.

[Congressman Billybob]

SCOTUS may have tried to limit the application of Bush v. Gore. And it certainly ran screaming into the night rather than decide the Torricelli case, that raised a similar issue in the NJ Senate race.

However, Court decisions are like a bell that once it has been rung cannot be unrung. Seven Justices signed on to the legal conclusion that Fla. violated the 14th Amendment. That is a legal club which the Washington Republicans can and should use against King County officials.

Congressman Billybob

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[cherry]

people in this state seem to think that Reed is on the up and up, but I won't vote for him ever again...

when we needed some moral outrage to counter balance this thievery of an election, he is siding with the thiefs....