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FRAUD by Stefan Sharkansky Put away the John Grisham. This week's best beach thriller is the 436-page transcript of King County Elections Director Dean Logan's deposition in the election contest lawsuit. Logan's testimony one-upped the predictions I made in my last Sound Bite column [April 14]. I was about to get county records that I expected would prove that more ballots were counted in November than were cast by voters. But instead of a precise accounting showing more ballots than voters, the accounting was revealed to be such a mess that there was effectively no accounting at all. Logan confirmed...

I've received new information to confirm that King County's large discrepancy between ballots counted and voters counted is an outsized anomaly. As I reported earlier, King County's discrepancy of miscounted ballots, (considering both voterless ballots and ballotless voters) -- is on the order of at least 3,700 ballots. Dean Logan did not dispute my numbers at last week's town hall meeting. At best, he might have explained some of the miscounted ballots with his claim that 250 of the unverified provisional ballots were paired with empty provisional envelopes from eligible voters. Even so, 3,400 miscounted ballots is still an outsized...