GOP Says It Found 300 Illegal Votes

Seattle Times ^ | 1/27/5 | David Postman

[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

[davidosborne]

ALL Democrats should be calling their party Chair DEMANDING the revote.. I would tell them I want to WIN fair and square... DEMAND A re-vote... !

[davidosborne]

Another reason why we should only have TWO parties. If you can't win the PRIMARY than vote for the guy that does.

[joyce11111]

WHere is the FBI????

[GretchenM]

Would you add the words "Washington State" to the title?

[Splatter]

When you are in the BS business, such as Kirstin Brost, apathy and laziness by the voters not only desired but encouraged.

Here is a BS artist at work:

(About break-in at Bush’s state headquarters for re-election) State Democratic Party spokeswoman Kirstin Brost said Democrats (She really said "party staff members") had nothing to do with the break-in.

“I feel really bad. I know how upset I’d be if it happened to us,” she said.

“There was nothing for us to gain by stealing those computers,” she said. “Their secret plan isn’t so secret.”

She should get a Golden RAT S*** award or something.

Hey, speaking of forked tongue spin masters, what happened to Paul Berendt? When Rossi won the first and second counts he would spew on a daily basis.

[GretchenM]

;-)

[Splatter]

You mean Paul ("God has placed her" in the governor's office) Berendt? Hahahaha, sure!

[GretchenM]

Wow. Shocking defensiveness: Not "we won the election" but "there's no proof that the other guy won."

The implied follow-on sentence is, "And we want to make darn sure there never is!"

[Splatter]

You seem to have forgotten, in WA state numbers don't matter unless you are a RAT. I give Rossi about a 50/50 chance the day Queen G was crowned. Every day that the fraud remains in office his chances go down.

[Bush gal in LA]

I heard that the people that slashed the tires were sons and daughters of RATS that got elected! They were also working to get Kerry elected, but when they were arrested said they had nothing to do with the Kerry campaign! Huh? These people are liars and cheaters and I'm so sick of their hypocrisy!

[GretchenM]

Your post at 31 sounds exactly how a thief might feel as he realizes the cops are at the door.

Legitimacy tends to destroy fear.

[My2Cents]

"Better dead than red."

That can be the blue staters' mantra.

[GretchenM]

Where is proof that either one of them won?

Rossi is asking the court to set aside the election results and order a new election because it is such a mess that neither one of them could govern as needed with this cloud hanging over the results.

[Timeout]

In fact, there are more press accounts of felons voting for Rossi than for Gregoire.

I just LOVE that logic! Let's rely on the word of the FELON...the illegal voter...who has everything to gain by lying and saying he voted for Rossi!

[george wythe]

Republicans have identified 240 felons who voted illegally.

The bulk of those are in King County

What a surprise! A Republican stronghold

[/sarcasm]

[GretchenM]

What's disturbing about all of this is that there is no provision in state law for a "re-do" of the election, from what I understand

There is a legal precedent in Washington; one of the county races had this kind of funny stuff and a new election was ordered and held.

[davidosborne]

EXACTLY !

[My2Cents]

Deep down even the RAT mouthpiece knows that Queen Gregoire is a fraud...

Some have been referring to Gregoire as "the acting governor."

[Flux Capacitor]

----Plenty of loudmouths in other states who, while unaffected by our election, felt free to tell us to bend over and take it...----

Rest assured that the vast majority of all of us to your east who've been paying attention to this travesty are cheering you guys on.

We wanna see Acting Governor Chrissy go DOWN....

-Dan

[GretchenM]

It's my understanding that recall in Washington can be based only on malfeasance in office.

I'd much rather we get our revote.