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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"Normal human error" = democratic SOP
About the only thing she would have is to claim that any action taken by McKenna would be for political reasons.
Isn't this the biggest smoking gun of all? Assuming actual turnout is perhaps 50-60%, this means that tens of thousands of fraudulent votes were cast.
Too little too late. As usual, the Pubbies sat back and let the Dems out-legal them. They should have agreed with the Dems that the election was a crock, joined in their lawsuit and called for the new election at the time.
Now they will lose because of the necessity for maintaining the government in continuity. I predict they will be turned down by the courts on this line of reasoning.
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