John Fund; Handwriting analyst finds 400 Washington ballots written in same hand

Hugh Hewitt | 1/4/05 | chiller

[chiller]

details to come, just heard

[Eva]

I think that they are referring to the signature that you have to sign by your name and address when you vote. My guess is that these four hundred votes in the same handwriting are among the over five hundred votes that were cast giving the election headquarters for King County as their address. The Democrats claim that they are homeless people that they registered, despite the fact that some of the registrations give other addresses. Maybe they should just throw out all the votes of the counties that messed up and just tabulate the votes of the rest of the state.

[ScottFromSpokane]

From the comments on this Sound Politics post:

In fact, John Fund’s entry in today’s OpinionJournal Political Diary ($) sports a picture of Christine Gregoire and is entitled “Tarnished Crown.” Fund states that “A handwriting analyst hired by the state's home-building industry believes there is strong evidence that one person may have signed over 300 provisional ballots cast in a controversial precinct in which hundreds of voters listed the county's administration building as their home address.” Fund then goes on to say that with so much uncertainty in the election that “It's time to call in both state investigators and the FBI and have a look at the anomalies in this race.” He notes that the final outcome of the election might not be changed by all of this, “…but at least some of the myriad of unanswered questions about the vote count may be resolved.”

Posted by Seth Cooper at January 4, 2005 05:43 PM

[norton]

"interesting. I wonder what county they were from...."

For those of us in So Cal 'Forest Lawn' comes to mind.

[steve86]

I'm skeptical this will go anywhere. Even given two complete pages of handwriting, handwriting experts will disagree on whether the two were written by the same person (especially if one is forged to resemble the other's style). A bunch of signatures, with no other supporting writing, is real sketchy evidence to present to any kind of legal proceeding. It would be more fruitful to compare a signature on an absentee ballot to an official signature on file. Much easier to prove two signatures were written by different people than to prove a pile of signatures were written by the same person.

[AGreatPer]

Thank you for the reminder in #138. Yes, it is all coming back now. I remember that now but forgot. I was just happy when I saw Fund still writing for the WSJ.

[dennisw]

Stop children what's that sound ......Everybody look what's going down

[John Lenin]

Unfreakin real, Gregoire is a piece of cow dung.

[MeekOneGOP]

Yeah, really. :^)

[BARLF]

Mr Flee & I voted absentee one year. We had to go to a notary to make it legal. How can they misuse an absentee ballot?

The notary required ID.

[reg45]

As the 'rats say: It ain't over till the last vote is counted stolen.

[reg45]

As the 'rats say: It ain't over till the last vote is counted stolen.

[mewzilla]

They ought to fingerprint these things, too.

[ScottFromSpokane]

Mr Flee & I voted absentee one year. We had to go to a notary to make it legal.

?!

How many years ago was that?

[dandelion]

Great news - let's see it in the WSJ, and it'll make waves for sure...

[Libertina]

If this turns out to be true, I will NOT be surprised. Check this one out, Annie! I'd say the democrats have their b*tts in a sling now. ;)

[Brilliant]

Fingerprint them.

[Nataku X]

Wow. Seems like you can do an entire Jerry Springer episode on him.

[Libertina]

The signature which is on file with the auditor's office. (You knoe, the one you give when you first register.) That's a guess.

[Rodney King]

Wow. Seems like you can do an entire Jerry Springer episode on him.

The girl even recorded converstaions with fund that are somewhere on the net, and he still took her back, as I recall.