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
In Miami FL there was an election that was so fraught with fraud that a judge did throw it out.
I forget the details.
Gah! And they despise Freedom, I'd swear too that on the bible..
You mean since Republicans want their victims to be armed?
Big story again tomorrow on the Milwaukee vote fraud investigation. That one's heating up...BigTime!
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jan05/296952.asp
Paul Berendt...now there's a piece of sh....ah, work. He gets the Greek Tragedy award for the crocodile tears shed in court that convinced that hack judge to allow those screwed up absentee ballots to be signed, enhanced & counted. May the man get ringalingalitis...that's where his belly button unwinds & his b*tthole falls out.
Let's get this straight, once and for all: Gregoire, or whatever, did NOT WIN; She STOLE, the election.
"call for a rematch between Gregoire and Republican Dino Rossi."
To hell with that. Remove Gregoire, and throw the book at the corrupt criminal element which hijacked the election for their party.
Don't get to comfortable down there in Oylmpia Haywire!...You will be leaving soon!
Now tell me exactly just how that could have possibly been done?
I guess Washington State Republicans need to stop campaigning to win elections and spend their resources challenging the massive Democrat fraud that takes place prior to election day, challenges they can't win given Washington's coven of left-wing judges. In others words: give up.
To bad the "citizens" of King County would rather gain power by fraud than in fair elections. Their tiny brains and corrupt hearts ensure the liberal voters of Washington State play just the role needed by their slimy Democrat Bosses.
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?
You don't seem to understand what's really important here. If the Republicans don't challenge registrations before or during the election then the Rats can't decry it as voter intimidation. (Oh, they did that anyway?)
Thing is huge. Take a crane and 18 wheel trailor to haul it away. Or a good block of C4.
Yup. That be it.
CHEATER RATS....This is all the rats can do to win an election these days....commit VOTER FRAUD!!!
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