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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (8024)5/27/2005 3:44:15 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Witness: Republican Won Disputed Election

By REBECCA COOK, Associated Press Writer
Thu May 26,11:30 PM ET

WENATCHEE, Wash. - An expert witness for Republicans challenging the 2004 election of Gov. Christine Gregoire testified Thursday that when illegal votes are subtracted, the GOP candidate was the rightful winner.

The state Republican Party and candidate Dino Rossi challenged the election after Gregoire's 129-vote victory, the closest margin of any governor's contest in the nation's history.

The challengers are alleging fraud and worker errors, and want the court to nullify the election, which would lead to a new race between Rossi and Gregoire.

Cal Tech political science Professor Jonathan Katz testified the way to tell who really won the election is to deduct illegal votes from both candidates' totals, according to voting patterns in their precincts.

Using that method and relying on the GOP's list of 1,183 allegedly illegal votes, Katz said Rossi actually won by at least 71 votes.

Two expert witnesses for the Democrats countered that the so-called proportional deduction method was flawed and unscientific.

Democrats wanted to block the testimony on proportional analysis, and the two sides spent most of the day arguing about it.

Judge John E. Bridges decided to defer a ruling on whether the testimony meets admissibility standards — but he let the experts testify in the meantime.

GOP attorneys said they planned to rest their case Friday.

news.yahoo.com
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