Stolen Election?

The Wall Street Journal ^ | January 12, 2005 | WSJ

[Brilliant]

Democrat Christine Gregoire will be sworn in as Washington's Governor today, possibly thanks to voters such as Mary Coffey, James Courneya and Rosalie Simpson. Why do we mention them in particular? Because, as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer recently reported, they're all dead...

Revelations of the formerly living casting ballots in elections isn't new to American politics, although it's something most of us thought was a relic of the late Richard Daley's Chicago. But this isn't the only jaw-dropper to have come out of Washington's gubernatorial race, which Ms. Gregoire claims to have won -- on a third recount, by 129 votes -- over Republican Dino Rossi. Now Mr. Rossi is contesting the result in state court...

Mr. Rossi certainly has a mountain of evidence on his side. In December, officials in King County...discovered 573 "erroneously rejected" absentee ballots, plus another 150 uncounted ones that showed up in a South Seattle warehouse. There were reports that hundreds of voters were registered in storage rental facilities and private mailboxes, that felons had voted, and that military ballots were sent out too late to be counted. Then we learned that several hundred provisional ballots had simply been fed into voting machines, making it impossible to authenticate their legality. Now it turns out the number of votes cast in King County exceeds the total number of voters by about 1,800.

County election officials insist these are all honest goofs, and that the vote tally was "99.9% accurate." ... But when the outcome of an election hinges on a considerably smaller fraction than 0.1%, the Ivory soap standard isn't good enough. ...53% of Washingtonians believe Mr. Rossi won... 36% ...think Ms. Gregoire won... Washingtonians also want a revote by a similar margin.

We sympathize with Mr. Rossi.... But ...no court is likely to reverse the result...

[gop_gene]

In line with the thinking of Dan Rather, who, when speaking of bill clinton, insisted a person could lie and still be an honest person.

But of course this kind of generous thinking doesn't extend to a republican like, say, Nixon, does it?

[Northwesterner]

The deoRats can move on with special interests. I will move foreward knowing that there is a lot of work to be done to balance the slate.

[Savage Beast]

Yes.

[OldFriend]

Moral relativism only applies to dems and criminals. Well, that's redundant!!

[Northwesterner]

Unfortunately WA is mostly democratic thus the demo will win and people of WA will forget during the next election. I sincerely hope they remember and rise against this type of treachery.

People of WA will forget during the next election but you hope they will remember?

I think the people of WA will not forget and they WILL remember. Main reason being, and to my surprise, is that many democrats broke party line when voting for a new governorship(this is a fact).

I agree that WA is predominately democrat (King County in particular)But no matter what party line, people remember when they felt cheated.

There really is no doubt that Gregoire will (at the very least) have a hard go of it.

[Brian Allen]

When I read this in this AM's WSJ I was astounded at its writer'[S'] suggestion that sympathy was due Mr Rossi for this denial of Civil Liberties to the population of the State and that there seems no recourse.

Shade of George Will's asinine rants to the effect the California re-call of Gray-out Davis was too democratic.

[Libertina]

Stolen? NOt quite yet, but the rats are definitely trying! Unfortunately for them, WE are not your parent's Republicans! BUMP

[Libertina]

No, apparently you are NOT an expert on this man.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[Northwesterner]

Move On?

I like to say Move Forward as opposed to Move On. Only becouse Move On Org is a liberal biased democratic web site.

Anyways, I would not teach my kids that when something unfair happens and it looks as though they have won, we all should just forgive and forget -coping out is no way to heal. However, I beleive we all need to proceed in a civil manner.