As we heard this morning, it appears King (Ukraine) County found enough votes to hand the Governship to Christine Gregoire. To pad her lead, the Wahsington State Supreme Court has also decied the ballots “found” in various places throughout King (Ukraine) County should be counted. From The Seattle Times.
The state Supreme Court ruled today that King County should count hundreds of recently discovered ballots in the hand recount of the still-undecided governor’s race.Stefan Sharkansky at Sound Politics, who has done a great job covering the Washington re-recount, has done some investigating in a single precinct in Seattle.
The ballots from the Democratic stronghold of King County could put Democrat Christine Gregoire over the top. Republican Dino Rossi won the first count by 261 votes and won a machine recount by 42 votes.
Precinct 1823 has 763 registered “Active” voters. 527 of them list as their residence address 500 4th Ave – the King County Administration Building. 241 of these voters specifically note their apartment number as #553, which is the room number of the … King Ukraine County Records and Elections office.He posted an update to this rather odd occurence later in the post.
Over 300 of these alleged “voters” give 500 4th Ave. (with or without the Elections office room number) as both their residence and mailing addresses. Several of the other Elections Office residents give overseas mailing addresses, such as Anuj Rathi of Mumbai, India, Rayko Suzuki of Tokyo, Japan, and Pascal Engi of Bern, Switzerland.
Elections Superintendent Bill Huennekens explained that the residents of the Elections office are “homeless individuals", and that there is a special section of the administrative code which allows for that. He sees nothing unusual in the fact that some of these so-called homeless individuals also give mailing addresses elsewhere. I asked him what the county did to verify the identities of individuals who list the elections office as their residence and he said that they can’t be treated any differently from anybody else. I take that to mean, that anybody on the planet who wants to vote (or vote again) can simply claim to be a resident of the King County Elections office.Do you hear that people? If you want to cast more than one vote, you can just register in your local district as a homeless person, especially if you live in a Democratic district. Chances are they won’t check you out.
Well we have just witnessed an election literally stolen by the Democratic party. No point in whining about it. What the Republicans have to realize is for now on, the Democratic party will do anything to win an election when they can’t win it at the ballot box on the actual Election Day. The Republicans better recognize this and take it into account in future elections.