WA Gov. Race: Republicans to Sue King County Over 573 Ballots

KOMO-TV ^ | 16 December 2004

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[woodb01]

bump for later tonight

MORE NATIONAL SOCIALIST DEMONRAT FRAUD!!

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[RogerWilko]

The Republican's are so silent.....because, like President Bush, I believe they know how to play POKER.....and the game ain't over yet!!! (Lots is going on behind the scenes)

That's funny... That's EXACTLY what the DUmmies think about the Rats working on the "election fraud" behind the scenes. I think the only difference might be that they've got delusion on their side and we got facts... Wonder if that counts for anything?

[Chad Fairbanks]

There is likely evidence to show if these ballots were rejected for invalid reasons. It also sounds like the Republicans are going to make very sure this is investigated carefully before any ballots are added to the count.

We'll probably get told to go s**t in our hats, though. But, the fight is far from over...

[Mo1]

The county's Canvassing Board voted Wednesday to prepare the 573 absentee ballots for inclusion in the hand recount, over the objections of Republicans who urged the county to investigate the ballots first.

They haven't been verified??

[Publius]

Correctamundo.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Right about now I would file a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Missouri board of elections to validate every registered voter in the state. If that was thrown out I would spend the next four years filing suits to have every voter validated.

This is ridiculous.

[liberateUS]

And it doesn't matter exactly when the vote was actually created...after the fact, MAYBE???

[MissouriConservative]

" Apparently when talking about democratic elections officials, it's not wise to underestimate their incompetence."

True. Democratic incompetence really can't be measured by any human scale. It has depths that have not been explored yet. No submersible can go that deep.

[Chad Fairbanks]

I don't agree with Rad_J. Ballots that are found are checked against voter rolls, signatures are checked, and they check whether the voter voted already, before any "found" ballot is used. It's not some game.

Well, gee. I hope the people who voted with those 22 newly-found ones were kind enough to sign their names on them...

Oh, and welcome to Free Republic. Hope your first day here is as nice as mine was.

[spudpuppy]

Thanks for the welcome. I'll come back with more on verification.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Yup. The rats are going to regret this for a loooong time.

[ProudVet77]

Wasn't thinking of a chip, rather a retina scan. I'd say fingerprints too but I don't trust the government having fingerprints of everyone on file. A retina scan isn't really any more obtrusive than a picture ID, and would not be open to human interpretation. How many peoples drivers license looks like them? The retinal scan acts like the magnetic strip on your ATM card, and the pin is a number you own like the PIN for your ATM card

[lilylangtree]

Best news I've heard all day.

[spudpuppy]

You have an awful lot of faith in machines.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Cool. And while you are out there, could you look up the number of Voters who have been verified as having cast a ballot in the election, versus how many ballots have been counted, and how many have been rejected?

I bet we'd find something interesting with those numbers...

[Chad Fairbanks]

How many peoples drivers license looks like them?

Well, in Publius' case, he DOES look like his DL Photo ;0)

[spudpuppy]

More on verification:
from PI article, "The canvassing board voted 2-1 to move forward with recanvassing the 573 ballots. "
"Canvassing" IS the process of verification.

Further:
"The absentee ballots were not counted originally because the voters' signatures had not been scanned into the county's computer system. Election workers should have checked the paper files, but instead the ballots were mistakenly rejected. The error was discovered only after Phillips saw his name on a list of rejected absentee ballots and notified Logan. "The facts are pretty clear there was a discrepancy in the canvassing of these ballots," Logan said. "There is a record that shows these are validly registered voters who did nothing wrong."

I'm just not sure what's wrong with this.

[Politicalities]

Ask yourself honestly, if absentee ballots in a heavily-Republican county were disallowed because of an error by the tabulators, would Democrats not strongly be insisting they shouldn't be counted?

Of course they would be. And they'd be wrong to do so.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Well, maybe because this is a recount, not a recanvassing, but what is happening is a recanvassing...? Is that right or wrong?

Now, what about military absentee ballots that were mailed overseas and received late? Have those ballots been counted, or were they "mistakenly" rejected? If so, will they be recanvassed as well?

So many questions...