Yikes...that is one evil looking BEEAAHCH!
Posted on 05/02/2005 9:54:22 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum
Republicans win right to challenge Wash. state election: Republicans have won a victory in their challenge to the election of Governor Gregoire. The judge says Republicans will be allowed to use "proportional analysis" to prove their case that illegal votes swayed the election.
I imagine Logan and his ilk are warming up the printing presses, more undiscovered ballots on the horizon, no doubt.
Buncha con artists. Damn, why is it I trust my garbageman way more than any politicians?
Good! Now pound the Demonicrat bastirds till their danged branes fall out on the Washington State Owned Lands!!!
The Rats are raising taxes on everything from Canned Meat, Gasoline, property etc., etc., etc. To let this go will put the State of Washington into the sewer. We need to kick to election thief out on her big, fat a$$!
Great news!
Right you are about precincts v. counties, but don't you mean precincts are more a 'fine' gradation rather than 'coarse'?
The people who fought for this and never gave up. God bless them.
"Rossi should just run the next time"
By the time all the appeals have been filed it will be time to be the "next time".
It should be fairly easy for the Republican lawyers to challenge that the results from specific a precinct, surrounding Pullman would be Democrat, rather than Republican. It is also possible that students, who were registered in other counties, voted in Pullman on provisional ballots. I have heard it mentioned many times that a lot of the college students didn't even know that they had to vote in their home town.
would the rats let it go, always fight the good fight
Yippee!! This is great news!
Yikes...that is one evil looking BEEAAHCH!
Yay! :)bump / ping!
I'm simply approaching this from a standard of past example. Think Nixon in '60... clearly there was evidence fraud from Johnson's springboard in Texas and Daley in Cook County. Nixon's situation was different, I know, it was on a different stage and in a different time.
I'm also willing to be wrong here.. what does the law in Washington state say of this scenario...an election that is razor thin where malfeasance is evident?
If it drags out until "next time," the damage will be all on the Democrats and the chances of Democrats retaining power in intervening elections will be at least weakened. If we can wrench a few legislative seats from Democrat control, we will have gained something.
By the way, did you read that Norm Dicks is the subject of some accusations of ethics violations for accepting lobbyist paid for vacations? Developing on the Drudge Report.
Only the left has no principles upon which they stand.
Get the U-Haul warmed up!
What a great way to start a Monday!
If it's a student population that is attributed to the bulk of the unverified provisionals, then it's a good bet that MoveOn.org is sweeping students into the voting places requesting provisional ballots.
The latest communication is that the precincts did not verify these provisional ballots until later, but they are indeed valid, so the point is moot.
The issue then is to King County's 123 unverified provisionals who were not properly registered, hence invalid.
The issue is also to the totality of unverified provisionals, whether later determined to be valid or not.
The question remains to screen all 'valid votes' versus all 'counted votes'.
If a provisional was cast and counted unverified but later determined to be cast by a properly registered voter, then is it disallowed based on errors by polling inspectors or allowed because the voter was not at fault? My guess is the latter. If that is the case, then the discovered unverified error in Eastern Washington is a moot issue and will have no bearing on the case because election workers have stated the votes were cast by properly registered voters. If is the former, then a precinct analysis should show the vote subtraction going against Gregoire.
I would think the democrats are in an uncomfortable position here.
Other things to ponder. Democrats are saying they have also found over 400 felons voting in Rossi favoring counties.
Also, some law professors believe the result could be neutral, not knowing who won the election, but they claim this will go against the republicans because it must be shown the outcome must appear to be different, not that it is indeterminant.
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