Posted on 12/17/2004 11:52:39 AM PST by kattracks
SEATTLE (AP) — With Washington state in the middle of a recount of its amazingly close governor's race, election officials in Seattle's King County entered a warehouse Friday and found a plastic tray containing 150 misplaced ballots.The discovery brings the number of belatedly discovered ballots to 723 in the heavily Democratic county — potentially enough to swing the election to Democrat Christine Gregoire.
Republican Dino Rossi won the Nov. 2 election over Gregoire by 261 votes in the first count and by just 42 after a machine recount of the 2.9 million ballots cast. On Thursday, with every county except King, Pierce and Spokane reporting, Rossi had pulled ahead by 74 votes.
The Republican Party went to court Friday to try to block, for the time being, the opening of those ballots. A judge set an afternoon hearing.
King County Elections Director Dean Logan told The Seattle Times that the ballots in the tray, like the 573 other ballots found earlier this week, were mistakenly rejected because there was a problem with how the voters' signatures had been scanned into the county's computer system. The tray apparently was left behind and forgotten in the warehouse, Logan said.
Election workers, along with observers from the political parties, searched the locked cage inside the warehouse.
The search of the warehouse was prompted by a curious finding: None of the envelopes of the 573 other ballots contained names beginning with the letters A or B, and only two started with C, The Times reported.
King County election officials want to count the ballots, which they say are valid votes. Republicans want those ballots to stay rejected — or at the very least, they want King County to investigate further before adding them to the mix.
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Yeah, how come it seems that fraud happens all the time, perpetrated by friggin' idiots, but no one ever seems to be investigated, or indicted, or arrested, or convicted. Ever.
Once Rob KcKenna is inaugurated as the new state AG in January, I expect him to start investigating this in detail.
Q: How many ballots did you find?
Democrat A: I don't know, how many do you need?
I'm just disappointed that no major Republican figure is pointing this out.
Sorry, but it's just not true. The Lead WAS about 50,000, but any knowledgeable observer could see that the two Counties with lots of votes still out were big DEM counties in South Florida. You can complain about that, but you can't say that it was unexpected that those final votes would drive the total result close to zero.
I was watching closely election night 2000, and from about 12 PM on, I was confident it would come down to within 10,000 votes either way. Sad, but true.
Point it out to who? The Base? We already know it. The media, of course, would never allow such ideas to be aired.
Democrat, Republican: I knew it was one of those two.
you mean " Fraud daylight "
Statistically just about impossible.
Maybe the dems can get Dan Rather to certify the ballots as valid.
I know the woman who reported it, King Fraud County Councilwoman Kathy Lambert (R), and I trust her.
Can one find out if their mail in ballot was counted?
Only if you were in King County, apparently. If your name is not on the list of rejected ballots published by the paper, then either A.) your vote counted, or B.) Your vote is in a stack somewhere, waiting to be discovered if it's needed later...
Hope this helps!
Somebody ought to be jumping up and down. Make enough noise and even the MSM will have to acknowlege it sooner or later.
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