[eureka!]

"The county has a "ballot-on-demand" system that allows workers to print additional ballots in the elections office and at the mail ballot satellite office. Logan said probably less than a dozen people have access to the machines and that the system is password-protected. But he said there is not a "specific inventory of the number of ballots that are produced on the ballot-on-demand system.""

Amazing. I am speechless....

[Hostage]

There's more. Polling inspectors were allowed to take blank ballots home the weekend before the election. They were told to destroy whatever was not used. The blank ballots taken by inspectors were never accounted for.

Of all the counties in Washington State, the bluest is King County and they are the only ones that do not track and account for their ballots. All other counties have been looked at and all except Pierce County (largest city is Tacoma and is also blue) have agreed that King County is an out-of-control mess.

King County was also the county that reported last in 2000 during the Gorton(R) vs. Cantwell(D) US senator race. That absentee count went on for two weeks after the election with Gorton maintaining the lead until the last day when suddenly a couple of thousand of absentee votes put Cantwell over the top. The same pattern existed then as now.

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