Oh please. With 900,000+ voters? There's always some fraud. There isn't any way a vote this close has any meaning without scouring all the votes.
Oh please. With 900,000+ voters? There's always some fraud. There isn't any way a vote this close has any meaning without scouring all the votes.
As loathe as honest people like us are to do it, we have to put ourselves into the Clintonian parsing mode to fully appreciate this statement. Like most 'Rats, this King County 'Rat hack has left himself a lot of wiggle room. He didn't say that there wasn't fraud, just that there was no evidence of it.
It's like when Clinton used to do his Bart Simpson imitation. Remember when Bart would get called on some scheme he was involved it, he never denied doing whatever it was, only that "you can't prove it", and "nobody saw me do it". Same gambit here.
But even his is a lie. There is plenty of evidence of fraud. Besides the thousands of extra ballots coming in, there was the case of the write-in "Christine Rossi" being counted for Gregoire, not Rossi (presumably on the basis of the first name, not last), and the other one posted on FR of the ballot with the black felt-tip pen mark along the edge, just barely nearer Gregoire's name than Rossi's, but not within the oval next to the name, as required by the ballot instruction. Still counted for Gregoire, of course.