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3 King County Election Workers Suspended
KOMO TV Seattle ^ | April 5, 2005 | Bryan Johnson

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: corruption; elections; incompentence; kingcounty; ronsims; seattle; stealingelections; themostcorruptstate; votefraud
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Aaaaah, Moscow on the Sound - AKA Seattle.
1 posted on 04/05/2005 6:37:28 PM PDT by Murtyo
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To: Murtyo

Tip meet Iceberg.....


2 posted on 04/05/2005 6:39:20 PM PDT by cmsgop ( Don't Forget to check out Bea Arthur in the "Menopause Monologues"  coming on NBC this fall)
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To: cmsgop
Will anyone ever take Washington elections seriously again after last November?
3 posted on 04/05/2005 6:41:00 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: cmsgop

Really....3 is nothing, scores at least involved


4 posted on 04/05/2005 6:47:02 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: cmsgop

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.


5 posted on 04/05/2005 6:47:25 PM PDT by Murtyo
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To: Murtyo

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.


7 posted on 04/05/2005 6:57:00 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Murtyo

Finally, someone gets fired. It's a start, but there is a lot of house cleaning to do. Logan and Sims for starters.


8 posted on 04/05/2005 6:57:13 PM PDT by Vicki (Truth and Reality)
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To: Murtyo

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.


9 posted on 04/05/2005 6:59:04 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Murtyo
Judge Bridges has specifically ruled out a revote as contrary to the state constitution. Should the Republicans win their election challenge in his court, the gubernatorial election of last November would be invalidated, the governorship would be declared vacant, and the governorship would come up in this year's November general election. (Lt. Gov. Owen would act as goveror in the interim.)

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.

10 posted on 04/05/2005 7:00:43 PM PDT by Publius (The people of a democracy choose the government they want, and they ought to get it good and hard.)
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To: RedBloodedAmerican

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.


11 posted on 04/05/2005 7:01:47 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Murtyo

Coverup...


13 posted on 04/05/2005 7:04:47 PM PDT by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || Iran Azadi || Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket?)
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To: Truth29
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.

Concise. Eloquent. Devastatingly accurate.

14 posted on 04/05/2005 7:05:22 PM PDT by Libertarian444
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To: Murtyo

What's the latest with that scumbag woman who stole the election for governor?
Is Washington simply too corrupt to care?


15 posted on 04/05/2005 7:07:09 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Murtyo
Mail "processing" to ELECTIONS office DOWNTOWN? Sounds as if they were given a promotion!
16 posted on 04/05/2005 7:07:35 PM PDT by Libertina (God's gift of life is precious at all ages, from birth to death.)
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To: Baynative

We might as well ignore the rats' bad behavior for the short term, we have our plates full with our so-called Republican "friends." :(


17 posted on 04/05/2005 7:15:00 PM PDT by Libertina (God's gift of life is precious at all ages, from birth to death.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Oh no! Anything but THAT!!! 8-O


18 posted on 04/05/2005 7:16:15 PM PDT by Lexinom (You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.)
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To: Libertina

Lots of big companies will promote incompetant people rather than fire them. I'm sure that state beaurocracies are no exception.


19 posted on 04/05/2005 7:17:22 PM PDT by Lexinom (You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.)
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To: Baynative

Agree, Sam Reed should be tossed out. The (R) after his name on the ballot stood for 'RAT.


20 posted on 04/05/2005 7:17:32 PM PDT by Vicki (Truth and Reality)
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