Posted on 01/03/2005 2:48:35 PM PST by swilhelm73
It was last reported that there were 3,539 more ballots counted in King County than voters who cast them. The discrepancy is actually much larger.
The 3,539 is only the net. This comes from having roughly 1,500 more voters than counted ballots in some precincts, and about 5,000 more ballots than known voters in other precincts.
[This picks up where I left off in the post below about Precinct 3301. I can find only 41 precinct changes among counted voters in the Dec. 29 file since the Nov. 1 file and these appear to be provisional voters who corrected their precincts at the polls. Conclusion: in certain precincts there are about 1,500 more known voters who cast ballots that were accepted than there are ballots that were counted in the manual recount].
Bob Williams of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation brought to my attention several sections of the WAC that govern the canvassing boards. As I read the WACs, the King County canvassing board should not have certified its election without getting the count of voters to reconcile with the count of ballots, and that is something that they obviously have not done.
Among these: WAC 434-262-040
Verification of auditor's abstract of votes. The county canvassing board shall examine the auditor's abstract of votes and shall verify that all of the individual precinct and absentee ballot totals have been included in the abstract and that the subtotals and county-wide totals for registered voters and votes cast are an accurate reflection of the sum of those individual precinct and absentee ballot totals. [See the other sections in chapter 434-262 for related rules].
I suspect that the canvassing board simply checked the total number of registered voters on the rolls and not the number of voters who cast ballots. But that would be terribly lame if that's all they think they're required to do.
In any case, I would be very surprised if King County will be able to account for both 1,500 ballotless voters and 5,000 voterless ballots. The few explanations that have been offered, confidential voters and military voters, only account for about 100 and at most 200 voterless ballots respectively.
UPDATE (Jan. 3): See the latest revelations of King County Elections phoney-baloney "Enron Math", here
Huh?
Where have you been?
The RATS got away with this on a massive scale for years in Chicago and other places.
They have been emboldened to do it everywhere - even in quiet little hamlets like Seattle.
VOTER FRAUD - Coming to your town soon (if it hasn't already)!
The Rally for the Revote is Tuesday the 11th at 10:30am on the steps of the Capitol in Olympia. We need THOUSANDS of hacked-off "we're-not-gonna-take-it-anymore" type of people to show up and give the legislature a message they cannot ignore!
As to the question of forcing them to do what we say....
We could use physical force, but I doubt it'd get us anything except arrested/wounded/dead.
The alternative is to harass and question and continue bringing up the issue again and again and again until their life is a living Hell. They'd vote our way just to get some relief.
Thanks, Hoagy. They are having one in Vancouver, also same time same day, so guess I'll go to this one since I live in Vancouver. Hope the Rally in Olympia is huge and noisy. Give us the news next week, ok?
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