Posted on 12/23/2004 3:54:17 PM PST by fidelio
Edited on 12/23/2004 4:15:46 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
SEATTLE (AP) - Democrat Christine Gregoire has won the Washington governor's race by 130 votes over Republican Dino Rossi, according to final recount results from King County.
King County was the last county to report in the statewide hand recount, the third count of ballots in the governor's election. The election results have not been certified and probably will be challenged in court.
Dont ask me, this is the first time I have been to this site..I sure dont know.
An election stolen in the dead of night as it were...
I agree, they stole another one.
The Democrats are destroying our institutions, the ones that keep us relying on the ballot box instead of the ammo box.
But they could care less.
That's why I hate them so much.
The same-day sign-up "Gregorie won" trolls are persistent, aren't they?
The McCloskey-McIntyre "recount" debacle is quite germaine to what is happening in Washington state today. I suggest you go read up on it.
However, because you're a liberal and care little for history, I'll provide you with a Cliff Notes version: McCloskey(D) was seated by a vote in the House despite an initial count plus a recount showing that McIntyre(R) had won. Anyone with half a brain knew that the game had been fixed, but what could poor McIntyre do? The Dems had a comfortable majority in the House at that time, and the Republicans were content to funnel pork back to their districts and play golf with old Tip and his buddies.
So McIntyre graciously conceded, and McCloskey went back to Washington.
Meanwhile, back home in the district, moderates and independents began to awaken to the corruption endemic to the Democrat party. Furthermore, the Republican base was finally spurred into action and began to organize.
Within a few short election cycles, McCloskey was unseated by an unknown right winger named John Hostettler (now one of the most conservative members of Congress, a sort of mini-Ashcroft). Yhe so-called "Bloody 8th," which was once a true battleground, is now solidly Republican.
And do you know what the rallying cry was when Gingrich engineered the Republican victories in 1994? "Remember McIntyre"
So...by all means, proceed with your theft of this election. In doing so, you'll be signing the death warrant of the Washington Democrat party.
And from here in solidly red Indiana, I for one will enjoy watching the execution!
No, it's very simple. The Democrats are pulling out the Palm Beach County playbook from 2000: target a county where you know you have the newly-divined "votes" to put you over the top, apply a different vote counting standard to that county, and then exclude all other counties from using the same standard.
This baby is going to the USSC.
I, for one, hope the USSC stays out of this one. Let the Washington state Democrats stake their entire future on Gregoire. It is a wonderful opportunity to do in Washington what we succeded in doing in Iowa and New Mexico.
You people pulled this exact same stunt here in the 8th congressional district of Indiana about 20 years ago. Tip O'Neil was still running the House like a personal fiefdom, and he simply held "recount" after "recount" until the Democrat, Frank McCloskey magically found enough "votes" to win.
Do you remember that?
Would you like to hear how things turned out, then?
yes, please tell us, how did the old chipster cheat? as all demoncrapts do???? should be a good one.
Oh yeah and the Washington State Democrats argued in court
that EVERY county not only King County should be able to go double check that they did not discard votes incorrectly by mistake.
Already, I'm seeing some photographic evidence of ballot tampering in King County.
Give it a couple of days, Zee2. There are only 2 possible outcomes:
1) The evidence of fraud and/or incompetence is so overwhelming that the results are thrown out,
2) Gregoire is able to get away with it, thereby ensuring major Republican gains in Washington over the next few years.
I'm fine with either one.
What is this election process teaching our children? That certified results don't really mean anything? Election results are corruptible? Laws are meaningless and what is important is that I win regardless of how? Communist agenda the end justifies the means!
they ban liberals? really? do they ban conservatives on the liberal websites too? Im asking, i really dont know?
what sort of ballot tampering? making new ballots? changing old ones?
Well, here's a brief look at the numbers of the 2 recounts (machine/ hand); (Just for Rossi/Grergoire)
Machine:
All other counties excluding King:
total votes 1,887,963 Change: +26 Rossi (0.001377%);
King: 856,963 Change : +245 gregoire (0.02859%)
Hand:
All other counties excluding King:
total votes: 1,889,094 Change +7 Rossi (0.0003705%);
King 857,500 change +179 gregoire (0.020875%)
Combined:
All other counties excluding King: total votes recounted: 3,777,058 +33 Rossi (0.00087369%)
King: 1,694,463 + 424 gregoire (0.0250227%)
So my quick math shows that the change rate in all other counties is just 35/1000ths of the change rate in the other counties.
Or this is to say, King county changed their votes by a factor of 286 times (or 2,864%) the rate that all other counties combined changed their votes.
Someone should be able to provide a "p" value for this change rate, and give a statistical probablity of this being a random event.
See ya'll,
take care,
Merry Christmas,
Well
Your resorting to calling me names, persuades me that I must be wrong.
Yes,sir, you are wrong in all parts, you are wrong baby.
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