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The Republicans made their case stronger when the Dems rolled out their witnesses. There was a long list of county auditors from all over the state who told about discrepancies in their election results. Every one of them told about how they reconciled their discrepancies and followed state law to the letter. Testimony from the King County elections officials told a different story: the discrepancies were ignored and state law was not followed.

The Dems case that they found felon voters in pro-Rossi counties fell short on one important point: these felon voters never went through the validation process that is necessary to be used as evidence in court. They will never be able to make their case on this point in this court nor in the State Supreme Court, if they try to test their case there.

Bob Williams, head of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, said on John Carlson's show on KVI that the Dems sealed their fate yesterday with the testimony from Dean Logan and today from Prof. Handcock, Nixon Handy, and Linda Sanchez. He said that Dem witnesses further revealed that King County negligently administered the election, and that negligence resulted in errors that were greater than the margin of victory. King County's apparent unwillingness to take strong action in light of that negligence reinforced their case.

Evergreen Freedom Foundation has a list of the 2004 election that were clear violations of Washington state law:

On nine occasions, King County elections officials discovered unsecured ballots and added them to the total count.
437 provisional ballots (ballots that by law must be checked to see if the registration is valid) were counted without first being verified. In King County, at least 348
provisional ballots were fed directly into the vote-counting machine. In Pierce County, 77 provisional ballots were counted at the polling places without verification in
violation of state law. In Stevens County, approximately 12 provisional ballots were cast by individuals who were not eligible to vote (nine because they had never registered to vote and three because their registrations had been canceled).

An estimated 3,500 duplicate absentee ballots were mailed to voters. After the error was discovered, King County advised the voters to vote on one ballot and discard the other.

At least 1,108 convicted felons, whose voting rights had not been restored, voted.

At least 45 dead people voted.

At least 15 people voted twice.

At least 30 federal write-in ballots with a straight party line vote were not counted in the governor’s race in King County.

Eighty-nine voters voted in King County whose registration date on the King County voter files was after the deadline for registering to vote. However, their voter
registration deadline was changed to a date before the deadline sometime between December 29, 2004, and January 11, 2005. King County explained this as a human error. A 100 percent check of the actual voter registration should be made. This can only be done during “discovery” in a lawsuit.

A “no” ballot was counted as a vote for Gregoire.

A “Christine Rossi” ballot was counted as a vote for Gregoire.

55,177 ballots were “enhanced,” and 4,962 were duplicated in King County.

Virtually no procedures were used to verify whether a person who voted was actually eligible to vote.

When the Secretary of State certified the election on December 30, at least 8,419 more votes were counted in five counties than the number of voters who had cast votes. The law says there must be a legal voter for every vote counted.