GOP demands new election as disputed votes emerge

Washington Times ^ | 1/08/05 | Valerie Richardson

[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.

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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.

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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.

[Mo1]

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 ???

[26lemoncharlie]

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!!

[connectthedots]

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.

[LoneSome Journey]

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.

[farmfriend]

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.

[Bonaparte]

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.

[laweeks]

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.

[farmfriend]

Oops, I replied but forgot to add the ping list. You'll just have to scroll up.

[connectthedots]

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.

[Seaplaner]

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.

[Once-Ler]

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.

[msnimje]

Since dead voters are almost always democrats, does that mean there is not voting in Heaven?

[cgbg]

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". :-)

[MHT]

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!

[cherry]

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....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Great news....the California Recall has emboldened other states...

[farmfriend]

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.

[Bonaparte]

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.

[international american]

Wishing you the best of luck here in Commiefornia.