Oh yeah..I counted them..wrong the first two times..but I got it right the third time..yeah..that's the ticket..trust me..
Posted on 02/03/2005 8:55:31 PM PST by Seattle Conservative
I've received new information to confirm that King County's large discrepancy between ballots counted and voters counted is an outsized anomaly.
As I reported earlier, King County's discrepancy of miscounted ballots, (considering both voterless ballots and ballotless voters) -- is on the order of at least 3,700 ballots.
Dean Logan did not dispute my numbers at last week's town hall meeting. At best, he might have explained some of the miscounted ballots with his claim that 250 of the unverified provisional ballots were paired with empty provisional envelopes from eligible voters. Even so, 3,400 miscounted ballots is still an outsized discrepancy and Dean Logan did not dispute that characterization either.
Now, two individuals who were closely involved in the 2000 election in King County have independently told me that the discrepancy between ballots counted and voters counted at the time of certification was significantly smaller than the 2004 discrepancy. One of them, a King County election official who worked on the 2000 election told me that the county-wide discrepancy that year was on the order of a "couple of dozen". Councilmember David Irons, who was on the canvassing board in 2000, gave me an exact number: 17.
17 vs. 3,400. Nevertheless, the official story from King County Elections has been that this year's discrepancy "is consistent with historic reconciliation rates for King County. In 2000 this number was 1,230" [I debunked that number in this post]. Meanwhile, other county audtiors shrug off this year's discrepancy as nothing to worry about. This lack of concern boggles the mind.
COMPARING COUNTIES TO COUNTIES, APPLES TO APPLES
And even if you allow for the relatively large turnout and number of new voters in 2004, how did other counties fare this time? These are the other counties in the state for which I've seen (and previously reported) discrepancy counts:
County Total Ballots Reported Discrepancy Reported Discrepancy %
King 899,199 2,148 0.24%
Pierce 317,012 212 0.07%
Snohomish 297,187 282 0.09%
Clark 172,277 225 0.13%
Stevens 20,606 12 0.06%
Jefferson 18,772 6 0.03%
To compare apples to apples, I calculate the discrepancy for each county to be the net excess of ballots over voters, including the total number of improperly submitted provisional ballots. E ven if we adjust the number of improperly cast provisional ballots to subtract the empty provisional envelopes found at the same polling places (a plausible source of innocent human error), the King County discrepancy is still by far the largest at 1,900 (0.21%) and the Jefferson County discrepancy goes down to ... 0
I reiterate my earlier report that Jefferson County has no unexplained discrepancy, except for 6 provisional ballots that were improperly inserted into the ballot box, paired with 6 empty provisional envelopes from the same polling places and submitted by verified eligible voters. Jefferson County Auditor Donna Eldridge even shared the relevant voter lists and reconciliation reports. After I pointed out another possible unexplained discrepancy, she had her staff investigate.
They discovered that 9 voters were not properly credited, they corrected the problem and even faxed me copies of the poll book page that explained the crediting error. Now the numbers add up. Exactly. 18,772 ballots. 18,772 voters.
Even adjusting for county size, there can be no explanation for the fact that Jefferson had essentially no discrepancy, while other counties were off by hundreds. Well okay, there is one explanation: Jefferson County Auditor Donna Eldridge believes it's her job to ensure that the number of ballots equals the number of voters. Some of the other auditors, on the other hand, apparently don't consider that to be part of their job description.
Oh yeah..I counted them..wrong the first two times..but I got it right the third time..yeah..that's the ticket..trust me..
Ping the list at your discretion... (I think we're all reading soundpolitics anyways however).
Wasn't sure if everyone was reading it or not - especially our FReeper FRiends not in WA state who have been very supportive of us and like to keep up on the 'goings on' here.
Court hearing starts tomorrow 9 am. John Carlson said he thought that the Dims would present their arguments, something else and then the judge would deliberate. John felt it would only take about 1/2 day and the judge may come back tomorrow afternoon and, if things go like we hope and think they will, a trial date would be set.
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Without his dogged investigative work, a re-vote never would have been a consideration.
Sharkansky deserves a medal...or something.
Yes, and I C A N ' T W A I T ! ! !
The Dems' motion to throw this out will be summarily rejected.
G.W.Bush won Florida by less than 600 votes then, and then the corruptable-old-democRAT voting machines were destroyed, and replaced with state-of-the-art machines - immune to tampering, and G.W.Bush won Florida by 380,000 votes in 2004!
I guess the answer is, y'all gotta take-it-to-the-streets, and if Jesse Pokechop shows up, shout him down and make him ride away in a Police car. We did it!
Good luck..............FRegards
BTTT!!!!!!
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