Well,
The Chronicle (of Chehalis, WA) said this: WHO PAYS? State law requires that the party, in this case the Democrats, that requests a hand recount must conditionally pay for it. The condition is that if the recount reverses the result — in this instance shows Gregoire won instead of Rossi, then the state must pay because theoretically it messed up in the first two counts. The result would be that we, the taxpayers, must reimburse the Democrats the $1 million or so it cost for the recount. We have a suggestion: Because a reversal that gives Gregoire the election will almost certainly be a result of King County election officials’ incompetence, make King County and its taxpayers reimburse the Democrats, not us taxpayers in the rest of the state.
SOURCE I tend to agree. The incompetence however, is also in Pierce County, too. And others. Try to check out
http://josef-a-k.blogspot.com/2005/01/total-mockery-part-02.html when you can.
Well,
The Chronicle (of Chehalis, WA) said this:
WHO PAYS? State law requires that the party, in this case the Democrats, that requests a hand recount must conditionally pay for it. The condition is that if the recount reverses the result — in this instance shows Gregoire won instead of Rossi, then the state must pay because theoretically it messed up in the first two counts. The result would be that we, the taxpayers, must reimburse the Democrats the $1 million or so it cost for the recount. We have a suggestion: Because a reversal that gives Gregoire the election will almost certainly be a result of King County election officials’ incompetence, make King County and its taxpayers reimburse the Democrats, not us taxpayers in the rest of the state.
SOURCE
I tend to agree. The incompetence however, is also in Pierce County, too. And others. Try to check out
http://josef-a-k.blogspot.com/2005/01/total-mockery-part-02.html when you can.