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
OK, this is really getting hinky now.
I agree with you, but I'm worried that nothing will work.
I'm sad to admit I think they may have succeeded in stealing this one.
We are witnessing a coup d'etat.
Until that question is answered, everyone can stop posting more and more threads about it.
Well, no one is forcing you, a resident of New Jersey, from skipping over threads related to Washington state :)
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I'll see your hinky, and raise you two uglies.
I've been reading everything on the WA board on this election, and everything on the general boards, and this whole thing amazes me, and quite frankly leaves me speechless.
Maybe the only thing good that may come out of this is election reform (actually we probably don't need reform as much as we need adherence to the rules), and maybe the moderates and undecideds will get off their butts in the future and move away from the demonrat party.
Touche!
Y'know... if the DemonRats are shown by the sheer volume of evidence against them to have stolen the election, and the Republicans end up not being able to do anything about it (either by bad judges, or corrupt bureaucrats), then We The People need to take matters into our own hands. If need be, WE need to install the rightful governor, or FORCE the state legislature to call for a re-vote by physically making them do it.
If they want to screw us around, they may suddenly find out that it is NOT okay to mess with the voting rights of a state full of hunters. This may turn out to be a perfect example of why we have the Second Amendment.
Coup d'etat? Bring it on.
What do you mean "WE"...? ;0)
You got me there. But, until then, just remember that two-by-fours are equally effective.
;0)
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The amazing thing is how open and public the whole thing is, and how silent and dismissive about it the people in power are.
-PJ
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