Posted on 01/30/2005 12:31:18 PM PST by freespirited
Republicans said yesterday they have found 249 more felons who voted in the November election.
That's nearly double the number state party officials had reported just two days earlier.
And Republicans expect the list to grow as they continue their investigation and build a case to have the gubernatorial election overturned and Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire removed from office.
Republicans backing their candidate, Dino Rossi, say they are confident ballots were cast by at least 489 felons whose rights to votes had not been restored by a court.
Of those, Party Chairman Chris Vance said yesterday, 424 are in King County and 14 in Pierce County.
A Seattle Times investigation published Sunday found 129 felons in King and Pierce counties who were recorded as having voted without having their voting rights restored. Another 23 were likely to have voted.
The newspaper looked at felony conviction records dating back to 1997. Republicans have a copy of the state's criminal-records database that includes more than 1 million felony convictions dating back as far as 1949, said Mike Sheridan, the party's political director who heads the effort to search for felon voters.
The party has a computer program that compares names and birth dates on the felony list with a list of voters from the Office of the Secretary of State.
In King County, party staff members then take any matches to either the King County Courthouse or the Regional Justice Center in Kent to review computerized case files to see if the felon's voting rights had been restored, Sheridan said.
For older cases, Republicans will search archived paper and microfiche files.
Counties where Republicans said they found felon voters are Benton, 7; King 424; Mason, 1; Pierce, 14; Snohomish, 19; Thurston, 17; and Yakima, 7.
King County Elections Director Dean Logan said yesterday that the county takes seriously allegations of illegal votes and encouraged anyone with information to send it to the county prosecutor.
DOH!
Let me guess . . . they all vOted democrat too, didn't they?
King County = dirty politics.
I can't possibly be the only one who is cynical of everything the Democrats do.
I don't think all the felons voted Dem, but probably a great majority. It would be serious egg on Rossi's face if they voted for him.
Of course, we have no way of knowing who they voted for, do we ( / suspicious sarcasm...)
Is this election going to be overturned??? It sure as heck should be!!
Well, duh! How would YOU vote if you were a felon?
ZZ Top in their younger years?
More evidence building......and all Logan can say is - be sure to report the crime? He has no shame. Gregoire is clearly illegitimate.
The Federal elections board should be investigating this, its gone way beyond letting Washington state take care of it themselves.
Not at all! Rossi and others here have said all along that the problem is so bad that nobody knows who was elected and that's exactly why he wants a revote. He is on record stating that he wouldn't want to be Governor under this cloud of obvious mismanagement and fraud.
And I dare say that any honest Rossi supporter here in Washington would agree that fraudulent or illegal votes should have no place in any legitimate election - no matter the results.
Did you see the editorial today that tried to use the old Florida canard that Blacks are disproportionately disenfranchised by the felon ruling and that the voting privileges of felons should immediately be restored so that the felons would make the transition to responsible citizens more quickly? The PI is part of the Baathist wing of the Democrat party.
The front page of the editorial page had another article on how Democrats were fleeing to Canada.
The new state AG needs to see if any of these felons who voted are on parole. Usually a person on parole must agree to obey ALL laws. If they violate a law, their parole can be revoked. Send their asses back to prison.
This is a smart thing for the Republican's to do. But, it would of been much smarter had they checked these things before the election.
They will send in the FBI just as soon as they finish with the Boy Scouts. Stay tuned.
Here is another article I found today
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