Posted on 04/05/2005 6:37:27 PM PDT by Murtyo
SEATTLE - There's a new flap over vote counting in King County.
Three county election workers were suspended Tuesday evening after another mail ballot snafu -- this one involving the upcoming April 26 hospital levy election.
Last week, the three workers were transferred from the mail processing headquarters to the elections office downtown after they failed to completely process 93 absentee votes in the Nov. 2 election.
The 93 ballots had been signature-checked, but the ballots were left inside secrecy envelopes and never processed. King County Executive Ron Sims called that incident "extremely upsetting" and two Republican members of the King County Council had called for the resignation of elections superintendent Dean Logan.
Sims stood by Logan saying the problem may have stemmed from workers who refused to adapt to changes that Logan had ordered in the department.
But the suspensions came Tuesday after a second development. This one involved complaints from eight county voters that they had received information about an upcoming mail-only hospital levy election on April 26. But there was no ballot inside the envelopes.
The three workers were put on paid administrative leave while the two incidents are being investigated. They have not been identified.
Tip meet Iceberg.....
Really....3 is nothing, scores at least involved
I haven't been following this. Is this going to mean a revote. I think the Dims should have allowed a revote months ago. They're looking really bad in all this.
Ooooooooooooh.
Paid administrative leave.
Gee.
What a punishment.
But, King County never did get around to counting those 90+ "missing" ballots, did they?
Wonder what precinct/district those ballots came from.
Finally, someone gets fired. It's a start, but there is a lot of house cleaning to do. Logan and Sims for starters.
Get real.
The national demogod party (and their partners in the MSM) stopped as soon as they re-re-recounted enough to get a faked lead.
THEY'LL NEVER ALLOW another election.
All this assumes the state supreme court would uphold Judge Bridges, but this judge is the strictest of strict constructionists, so I don't think he'll give the Democratic majority on the supreme court any wiggle room to reverse him.
Unfortunately, the dems don't care about credibility. They "won," took power and the people let them. The case grinds slowly through the courts while Gregoire appoints cronies, lets contracts and passes laws to reward her supporters. The people of Washington state should have emulated those of Ukraine and stopped the government until a new election was ordered. They didn't and now live in a dictatorship where the courts are only a means of delaying and defusing any solution. The national GOP did not fight and the Feds have taken no role. Washington state is now a banana republic.
Coverup...
Concise. Eloquent. Devastatingly accurate.
What's the latest with that scumbag woman who stole the election for governor?
Is Washington simply too corrupt to care?
We might as well ignore the rats' bad behavior for the short term, we have our plates full with our so-called Republican "friends." :(
Oh no! Anything but THAT!!! 8-O
Lots of big companies will promote incompetant people rather than fire them. I'm sure that state beaurocracies are no exception.
Agree, Sam Reed should be tossed out. The (R) after his name on the ballot stood for 'RAT.
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