Posted on 01/27/2005 10:21:21 AM PST by SopranoBush
TUKWILA — The state Republican Party said in court papers filed yesterday that it has found 300 illegal votes and more than 400 that can't be verified in the governor's election.
With Christine Gregoire winning the governor's race by 129 votes, Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance says he now has found far more than enough evidence to persuade a judge to nullify the election and call for a rematch between Gregoire and Republican Dino Rossi.
Lawyers and Republican staffers are continuing to look county by county for votes cast by felons, in the name of dead people or by people who voted more than once, casting second votes either in other counties or other states.
"I expect this number to literally grow every day," Vance said.
Democrats are unconcerned. Their attorneys have argued that Republicans should have challenged improperly registered voters before the election.
Republicans have identified 240 felons who voted illegally. Party workers have been comparing the state's criminal-history database from the State Patrol to a list of voters kept by the Office of the Secretary of State.
The bulk of those are in King County. Vance said there appears to be so many felons who voted in the county that "we will probably never get to the bottom of this list."
He also said the party has identified 44 votes cast under the name of dead people, 10 voters who voted twice in the state and six who voted here and in another state.
Vance claimed the Republicans had found 737 illegal votes, but 437 of those are mishandled provisional ballots. Those ballots were supposed to be kept separate on Election Day but instead were put in counting machines without being verified. The party has not released the names of the people they say cast illegal votes — such as felons and double voters — but it will have to do that before a trial begins.
Yesterday, Republican lawyers filed their responses to Democratic Party motions to have the case dismissed. Republicans dispute the Democrats' arguments that the Legislature, not the court, should hear the dispute and that the court doesn't have authority to call for a new election.
Republicans also argue that they don't need to show which candidate got the illegal votes, only that there were enough to cloud the results.
But Democratic Party spokeswoman Kirstin Brost said, "There's no proof that Dino Rossi won the election, and that's what you need to show."
David Postman: 360-943-9882 or dpostman@seattletimes.com
WA PING!
>>But Democratic Party spokeswoman Kirstin Brost said, "There's no proof that Dino Rossi won the election, and that's what you need to show."<<
Um, she is quite incorrect in that statement.
But it will definitely be shown in the re-vote.
very interesting... CALL the ACLU !! I'm sure they will HELP us NOW...
Vote fraud index ping!
Now who said that it was foolish to fight in Washington? Here's some salt for that crow.
Old news. Let's move on. She won. Forget it. Move on. A new day dawning here in WA state. A big, red, communist one!
The list is probably longer than the illegal voter list, actually. Plenty of loudmouths in other states who, while unaffected by our election, felt free to tell us to bend over and take it...
Ping!
"Republicans have identified 240 felons who voted illegally. Party workers have been comparing the state's criminal-history database from the State Patrol to a list of voters kept by the Office of the Secretary of State."
"The bulk of those are in King County. Vance said there appears to be so many felons who voted in the county that "we will probably never get to the bottom of this list."
"He also said the party has identified 44 votes cast under the name of dead people, 10 voters who voted twice in the state and six who voted here and in another state."
The rats in most states are unable to win an election without the dead voting, felons voting, double dipping voters and those voting in two or more states.
Congress needs to make voter fraud in a federal election and act of terrorism with big fines, jail sentences and loss of citizenship in major incidences along with seizure of personal property and real estate of those who are guilty of voter fraud.
I'll take some action on that (I'm confident that the illegal voter list is in the tens of thousands).
>> But Democratic Party spokeswoman Kirstin Brost said, "There's no proof that Dino Rossi won the election, and that's what you need to show." <<
Wow. Shocking defensiveness: Not "we won the election" but "there's no proof that the other guy won."
"A big, red, communist one!"
Or, in our new color scheme, a big BLUE communist one.
Can't you just hear the conversation that must have taken place among top Washington-State Democrats when news of this new development broke??::
"Hey, boys, good job. So what if the Republicans have found 300 Illegal Votes?? They can find 100,000 illegal votes, and it still won't matter. We got what we wanted, so screw the voters of Washington State!"
When I think of the brave people in this country who gave their lives for Democracy, when I think of the voters in Afganistan and Iraq who risk their lives to vote--how sweet is this thing called Democracy. No more can some mad dictator abuse his people and expect to be Unfortunately, Gregore is no less than a dictator herself, ursurping the will of the people. She no longer deserves the title of Democrat.
Now tell me exactly just how that could have possibly been done? Particularly since you have late registration up to 15 days prior to the election in Washington? It takes that long just to get the books updated, and they expect such a task to be done - statewide and for every voter - before the election?
Gee, if that's the standard operating procedure, then let's see the Democrats own registration challenge list. They must have already done this, right?
Chicago style politics are spreading everywhere that the Dims ae losing.
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