Republicans Seek to Oust Wash. Governor - election workers submitted false absentee ballot reports

Tampa Tribune ^ | May 23, 2005 | Rebecca Cook, AP

[Cincinatus' Wife]

WENATCHEE, Wash. (AP) -- Even though Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire has been in office for months now, the legal battle over how she got there is still far from over.

Republican Dino Rossi is challenging Gregoire's 2004 victory in the closest statewide election in national history, alleging widespread problems including illegal votes cast by felons and dead people.

The challenge was to go to trial Monday. Chelan County Superior Court Judge John Bridges moved the case to the county auditorium to accommodate the scores of attorneys, reporters, politicians and spectators who planned to attend.

Rossi, a former state senator and commercial real estate agent, won the first count by 261 votes and a machine recount by 42 votes - seemingly a stunning upset for Gregoire, a three-term attorney general in a Democratic-leaning state.

But during a hand recount of 2.9 million ballots, the Democratic stronghold of Seattle made Gregoire the winner by just 129 votes. Gregoire was inaugurated in January, amid protests from Rossi supporters.

The trial was expected to focus on problems involving human error in vote counting that are similar to allegations raised in Ohio last year and in Florida in 2000.

Both sides have been hastily revising their strategies over the past few weeks, as lawyers took depositions from election officials around the state. Neither Gregoire nor Rossi plan to attend the trial.

In a legal brief filed Friday, Republicans alleged for the first time that fraud swayed the election. The GOP was emboldened by depositions last week in which King County election workers said they submitted false absentee ballot reports, with the knowledge of their supervisors, before the election was certified.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

***....The GOP was emboldened by depositions last week in which King County election workers said they submitted false absentee ballot reports, with the knowledge of their supervisors, before the election was certified.***

[stocksthatgoup]

Govenor,"We won the election the old fashioned way.....
We stole it!"

[backhoe]

Rossi v. Gregoire: How Elections Are Stolen
various FR links & stories | 01-13-05 | the heavy equipment guy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1319819/posts

The Vote Fraud Archives
various links | 10-20-02 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/772470/posts

[Cincinatus' Wife]

LIBERALS never claim to be honest.

But they and their allies in msm, use honesty as a club to beat conservatives to death.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thank you AGAIN backhoe.

[backhoe]

Thank you AGAIN backhoe...

Regards to you- once again, that darned old dog of mine has me up at the crack of dawn

to hunt rats. I keep telling myself, "I'm glad the arthritis medicine is making her feel better"-- but this running to the gate barking at every noise on the street is getting kind of old. She used to just snooze peacefully 23 hours a day...

PS- the bird on the right is a statue of a horned owl... reputed to scare other birds away, it doesn't seem to be working too well...

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Well, backhoe, we're all hunting rats at the crack of dawn.

Gorgeous photo. Worth getting up for, I'd say.

Thank you. :^)

[Caipirabob]

But during a hand recount of 2.9 million ballots, the Democratic stronghold of Seattle made Gregoire the winner by just 129 votes. Gregoire was inaugurated in January, amid protests from Rossi supporters.

During THE THIRD RECOUND AFTER ROSSI WON THE FIRST TWO...

Omission of fact is as good as a lie.

[newzhawk]

I hope they have better luck than Orlando,FL did.The Dem mayor Buddy Dyer ( former Gov candidate) and his campaign workers were all indicted for paying money for services rendered - as in collecting absentee ballots- with no info except - boom - they are all not guilty without trials or anything- he is back in - I guess this is where the judges come in handy

[Route101]

A conscious effort to throw the election to Gregoire

By now it's firmly established that King County Elections officials (1) violated state laws by failing to properly account for their absentee ballots, and (2) conspired to falsify ballot records in order to conceal this problem from the canvassing board prior to certification.

The Democrats will argue that this was simply a matter of sloppy accounting with no evidence that it changed the outcome of the election. In fact, it points to a conscious effort to throw the election to Christine Gregoire --
from Stephan Sharkansky of Sound Politics.

[GretchenM]

FYI - from a Tampa paper

[Cincinatus' Wife]

.....During THE THIRD RECOUND AFTER ROSSI WON THE FIRST TWO...

Bump!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Ah, yes, their judges.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

All the Dems need to win is the lie and corruption.

[dennisw]

deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper.......

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I'd like to see the Democratic Party pay for all the recounts and heavily fined for their fraud. Then the trials should begin for those responsible and jail time imposed.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It appears there is no bottom to the slimy Democrat Party barrel.

[Free Vulcan]

Now dammit, what is the problem here? The Democrats stole this election FAIR and SQUARE!

[Lancer_N3502A]

"Democratic-leaning state"...my a$$

This place is a bastion for left wing commie socialist.

[SW6906]

BTTT!