Posted on 05/27/2005 10:06:38 AM PDT by CHARLITE
WENATCHEE, Wash. -- An expert witness for Republicans challenging the 2004 election of Gov. Christine Gregoire testified Thursday that when illegal votes are subtracted, the GOP candidate was the rightful winner.
The state Republican Party and candidate Dino Rossi challenged the election after Gregoire's 129-vote victory, the closest margin of any governor's contest in the nation's history.
The challengers are alleging fraud and worker errors, and want the court to nullify the election, which would lead to a new race between Rossi and Gregoire. Cal Tech political science Professor Jonathan Katz testified the way to tell who really won the election is to deduct illegal votes from both candidates' totals, according to voting patterns in their precincts.
Using that method and relying on the GOP's list of 1,183 allegedly illegal votes, Katz said Rossi actually won by at least 71 votes.
Two expert witnesses for the Democrats countered that the so-called proportional deduction method was flawed and unscientific.
Democrats wanted to block the testimony on proportional analysis, and the two sides spent most of the day arguing about it.
Judge John E. Bridges decided to defer a ruling on whether the testimony meets admissibility standards _ but he let the experts testify in the meantime.
GOP attorneys said they planned to rest their case Friday.
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Oh good grief. In my mind the election was close enough and whith enough questionable incidents that no one can say with any degree of certainty who the rightful winner is. Just have a re-vote and be done with it.
Calling Judge Sauls....
I wonder if they will have a new vote, and if so, will they purge all the dead people, etc from the voter's roll first?
I don't think there is any provision in the law to permit such an outcome.
BTTT!
Of course, that won't happen.
Yet the Democrats tried to use this to prove Gore won Floriduh. They also want to do the census using statistical analysis, went all the way to the Supreme Court on that one.
...but Global Warming theories are hunky-dory with this same crowd...
In both recounts Rossi won by a few hundred votes.
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