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GOP demands new election as disputed votes emerge
Washington Times ^
| 1/08/05
| Valerie Richardson
Posted on 01/07/2005 10:32:44 PM PST by kattracks
Washington state Republicans yesterday filed a lawsuit calling for a revote in the tight 2004 gubernatorial contest that saw Democrat Christine Gregoire top Republican Dino Rossi after two recounts by 129 votes.
"Most Washingtonians don't believe this has been a valid election," said Mr. Rossi, who filed the Election Contest Petition along with the state Republican Party in Chelan County Superior Court. [snip]
Republicans pointed to what they described as widespread voting irregularities in King County, a Democratic stronghold, that included votes cast by dead people and convicted felons, illegal provisional ballots, and thousands more votes than registered voters.
"We've seen debilitating, fatal mistakes, and we believe that a judge needs to set the results aside and order a new election," state Republican party chairman Chris Vance said.
But Mrs. Gregoire yesterday again rejected Republican calls for a new election, insisting that any discrepancies could be attributed to normal human error and, what's more, wouldn't change the final election result.
[snip]
Republicans are pursuing a report yesterday in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that at least eight persons who died months before the Nov. 2 election cast ballots in King County. Among those was a 51-year-old Seattle woman, Mary Coffey, who died two weeks before absentee ballots were mailed.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: christinethethief; deadforgregiore; dinorossi; gregoire; illegalvoting; kingcounty; kingcountydeadvote; rossi; soreloserman; sorelosermangop; thedeadvote; thedeadvotetwice; votefraud; washington; whineylosers
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posted on
01/07/2005 10:32:44 PM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
But Mrs. Gregoire yesterday again rejected Republican calls for a new election, insisting that any discrepancies could be attributed to normal human error and, what's more, wouldn't change the final election result Oh .. so now it's just normal human error huh??
What a crock
Hey Gregoire .. What are ya afraid of ???
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posted on
01/07/2005 10:36:21 PM PST
by
Mo1
(Does the distinguished Sen from VT wish to act as our treaty rep. for negotiations with Al Queda?)
To: kattracks
This stinks from fraud!! The Socialist are dazed by their losses. They have no reason to be!! No New Federal Programs to fund, Tax cuts and now Bush is going to do away with their Slush fund, oops! I mean Social Security!!
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posted on
01/07/2005 10:38:08 PM PST
by
26lemoncharlie
(Sit nomen Dómini benedíctum,Ex hoc nunc, et usque in sæculum! per ómnia saecula saeculórum)
To: kattracks
The postelection fracas, complete with the specter of voters rising from the grave, has stunned those who associate such Election Day shenanigans with the machine-style politics of old Chicago, not a good-government state like Washington. Good government state? What a joke! Washington is one of the most corrupt states in the country. People only think it isn't as corrupt as others. The lack of criminal prosecutions of government officials is not for lack of crimes, it's from cover-ups and refusals to proxecute corruption. The chief justice of the state supreme court is one of the main reasons public corruption is so rampant in this state. He admitted to my face in his chambers on 8/12/02 that I was entitled to a $1.2 million judgment against Clark county and said he wouldn't do anything about it.
To: kattracks
Mrs. Gregoire yesterday again rejected Republican calls for a new election, insisting that any discrepancies could be attributed to normal human error Such as:
Among those was a 51-year-old Seattle woman, Mary Coffey, who died two weeks before absentee ballots were mailed.
To: kattracks
But Mrs. Gregoire yesterday again rejected Republican calls for a new election, insisting that any discrepancies could be attributed to normal human error and, what's more, wouldn't change the final election result. Hmmm, she needs to talk to Pres. Carter.
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posted on
01/07/2005 10:41:56 PM PST
by
farmfriend
( Congratulation. You are everything we've come to expect from years of government training.)
To: kattracks
Unfortunately, both the legislature and the courts are controlled by democrats in that state. They won't care that 3,500 more voted than were registered. Even something that blatant won't slow them down.
There won't be a new election. But there is a slim chance that a recall election could succeed.
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posted on
01/07/2005 10:43:58 PM PST
by
Bonaparte
(Of course, it must look like an accident...)
To: kattracks
Funny how the media are portraying the Republicans as "nutty" and poor sports when they're silent about the attempted voter chicanery here in Ohio by the Dummycrats.
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posted on
01/07/2005 10:44:06 PM PST
by
laweeks
(I)
To: Carry_Okie; forester; sasquatch; B4Ranch; SierraWasp; hedgetrimmer; knews_hound; ...
Oops, I replied but forgot to add the ping list. You'll just have to scroll up.
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posted on
01/07/2005 10:46:24 PM PST
by
farmfriend
( Congratulation. You are everything we've come to expect from years of government training.)
To: Bonaparte
I think there will be a revote.
With Richard Sanders and the new justice Jim Johnson, things are looking better. I'm going to try and get the rest of the justices recused because every one of them has a personal interest in Gregoire winning.
To: kattracks
But Mrs. Gregoire yesterday again rejected Republican calls for a new election... Somehow, her fear of a rigidly proctored re-vote reinforces her appearance of vote fraud complicity.
I'm sure that Washingtonians can sense that Gregiore's malodorous DNA is all over the fraudulent ballots.
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posted on
01/07/2005 10:48:14 PM PST
by
Seaplaner
(Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
To: LoneSome Journey
ROFL. Looks like Gregoire was telling the truth if death is considered normal human error. I bet Coffey's husband or child sent in the absentee ballot, and they are telling themselves that Mary would have wanted them to commit fraud.
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posted on
01/07/2005 10:52:43 PM PST
by
Once-Ler
(Beating a dead horse for NeoCon America)
To: kattracks
Since dead voters are almost always democrats, does that mean there is not voting in Heaven?
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posted on
01/07/2005 10:53:04 PM PST
by
msnimje
To: kattracks
It is good to see the media actually naming a dead person who voted.
The Pubbies need to give them more names, with obituary announcements and pictures of their checked off names on voter lists.
Fraud or "human error"--if they can show that the Democrats in King County counted dead people they can humiliate the courts into acting.
It is a myth that courts are immune from public opinion. The justices attend cocktail parties, kids outings, country club galas.
They can be humiliated into doing the right thing.
"I Believe". :-)
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posted on
01/07/2005 10:55:35 PM PST
by
cgbg
(Now we have one more battle to fight--Washington State)
To: kattracks
Seriously, what's the procedure in WA? Will the state Supreme Court have to deny the Republican claims and go ahead and authorize her inauguration?
I have heard so little about this in the media, even Fox or on Rush. This is an outrage and if this had been a Democrat, they would have been on this case 24/7!
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posted on
01/07/2005 10:58:24 PM PST
by
MHT
To: Bonaparte
a stand has to be taken even if its fruitless in the present time....
We need to make it loud and clear just what the democrat party has been doing, not only now, but in the past, and it needs to be a big campaign issue from now on.....
maybe once and for all, the conservative/republican base in this state will take hold....
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posted on
01/07/2005 11:02:34 PM PST
by
cherry
To: farmfriend
Great news....the California Recall has emboldened other states...
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posted on
01/07/2005 11:11:29 PM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The good news about the Dems carping about us stealing the election is that we will make it much harder for them to do so.
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posted on
01/07/2005 11:13:25 PM PST
by
farmfriend
( Congratulation. You are everything we've come to expect from years of government training.)
To: cherry
I agree. And the vote was close enough that the GOP has a good chance of winning either a recall or the next regular election. But, IMO, they would have to invest resources in a massive get-out-the-vote and election oversight drive.
In a state like Washington, I can't see any other way. And the feds aren't going to touch this, even though they should.
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posted on
01/07/2005 11:14:53 PM PST
by
Bonaparte
(Of course, it must look like an accident...)
To: connectthedots
Wishing you the best of luck here in Commiefornia.
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posted on
01/07/2005 11:15:09 PM PST
by
international american
((Pray for the millions of lives disrupted by tsunami.))
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