Posted on 01/04/2005 4:38:59 PM PST by chiller
details to come, just heard
On provisional ballots, you have to fill out information.
Liberal Psychiatrist: Sir, you have multiple personality disorder.
Patient: Is that bad?
Liberal Psychiatrist: No, it just means that you can vote for John Kerry seventeen times.
& on FR:
Jimmy Carter might have at least counted a few ballots
By Mary Anastasia O'Grady
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I've got so much going on in my mind about all of this and since I have a moment, well let me share.
First, I've been, in recent years, of a puzzlement as to why the Repubs have let this vote theft go on for so many years.
It's an old tale and I share it often, but as a child, in Baltimore city, my Dad, me and my brother, used to go downtown after the precincts closed and rig the voting machines!
Yes we did though they were the old-fashioned lever type affiars. But the electricians knew how to set them to any number required and it was the big unions behind it.
We did it mostly for local elections but I remember going all about after the election of JFK. That's NOT John Kerry.
Anyway, I went through my liberal Democratic phase and now, as a Republican, I witnessed Florida 2000, New Mexico 2000, Tom Daschle illegally elected until someone got some gonads. Also, don't forget Ashcroft running against a dead man. It goes on and on.
I was scratching my head because if I remember this so distinctly when I was but and eight year old, damn, the pubs haven't figured it out in lo , how many? Gosh, we're talking forty plus years here.
Also, now that I'm a Republican I really, really resent that the Dems are still at their old habits and likely stealing MY vote. It wasn't so bad when my side was getting the stolen votes.
This Washington thing has intrigued me from all the way across America in tiny Delaware.
I knew in my heart of hearts and from all that I read, that that election was being stole right under the Repubs eyes. I would shake my head and think, damn, now they're stealing a Governorship.
Yet I was reading, even on vaunted conservative web sites such as this fine one, exhortations for Rossi to give it up. There was a tone of resignation across conservative sites across the Internet and I simply could not believe it, could not believe it. What a bunch of wimps, I thought.
I hope, against all spineless Republican hope, that Rossi and whoever's behind him don't give this up. Because the Repubs never want to contest an election AS it is being stolen from under them. Lately it seems to me they've taken to targeting "problem areas" like New Mexico and hey, they got Daschle and his Indian buddies to stop their fraud.
I don't know why the Repub always take that position. Perhaps there was some good intentions. Because, folks, you all tell me, what the hell is going to happen now?
The Washington governor's election had already been certified! How, legally, can they force another election?
Is there anything in Washington's election law that, say, has some sort of proviso that if the opposing party finds, say, a couple hundred fake signatures or, say, a few counties with more votes than voters, then is there some way to "contest" this election? After certification that is.
Recall in the Ukraine 90 percent of the reason there was a new election was because of the bad publicity. That and Putin threw in the towel. Is that what will happen in Washington state? Are the Dems, finally faced with obvious fraud, going to have to back down? I mean they rammed through that certification after the "hand count" with a ferocity.
Maybe this is why the Repubs always back down in situations like this. The legal system is designed to expedite the certification of an election and the placement of the newly elected into their jobs. And rightfully so. But that limited time span doesn't allow for the sort of things the Repubs are doing in Washington state, ie checking signatures with handwriting experts, yada, yada.
Thus the only way to "save" a stolen election besides preventing it the next time, is to raise a ruckous like Rossi is doing now. And HOPE that public sentiment swings your way.
Which brings me to my final thought. This is such bad publicity for America. I mean, damn, didn't President Bush himself complain about the Ukraine elections for the international radar? I can see the London Guardian headlines now. Yet another reason, I'm supposing, the Repubs always let the Dems steal elections.
There is so much to gain, even in the face of adversity, in doing what the pubs are doing in Washington state, despite the drawbacks. First, this is really flying below the national radar right now. But let Washington state announce it plans a new election and the beltway will be buzzing. That kind of national attention will draw so much attention to these Dem shenanigans that future dividends will be realized in some genuine skepticism when the Dems cry wolf in the future.
Anyway, I'm done. If anyone lives in Washington state I'd sure be interested in how the local citizenry is taking all this. I'm a blogger and I'm wanting to do a big post on all of this.
Are those legs I'm starting to see appear on this story?
And guess who wrote the textbook.
Should the WA GOP take to the streets?
< sarc >Big deal! Just some kind individual helping out some 'homeless' people so they aren't disinfranchised! < /sarc >
You are thinking of a legal election held by honest officials. What is to stop a crooked election judge from signing up 400 illegal voters before the poles open or after the polls close? Nothing.
This should be interesting.
Does the handwriting match Dan Rather's?
Not if the "same person" was already there. Remember, there were about 527 "voters" in precinct 1823 who all used the King County administration building, 241 of which used room 553 - the KC Election and Records office - as their apartment number. Wouldn't it be fun if it's these voter registrations whose handwriting's all match? And what could be more entertaining than interviewing whovever accepted all those "homeless" ballots!
Here in WA state a LARGE number of us vote absentee - maybe 60% (that's just a guess but I think it's in the ballpark).
We do not have to go to a notary. Fill out the ballot, put it in the blank envelope. Put the blank envelope in the outer envelope seal and sign it. Mail it or drop it off at the precinct.
Theoretically they compare the signatures on the outer envelope against the registration card.
I am sure that the Governor Alleged, C. G. will call a press conference and volunteer as Attorney General to investigate the obvious Republican vote fraud....but wait the new Attorney General will be in office and he is a "Republican." My oh my! This could get interesting!
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Maybe they mean on the envelopes of the absentee ballots. We have a lot of absentee votes here in Washington.
There is some question as to whether the court has the authority to set the date and terms of a new election or whether that right belongs to the legislature.
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