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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (5483)12/16/2004 7:56:13 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Ukrainian Surrealism (AKA Washington State politics)

Sound Politics - December 16, 2004

The Ukraine County canvassing board voted Wednesday afternoon to start to verify the latest batch of 573 magical mystery ballots.

There are many strange things about these ballots.

1. As noted earlier, they are heavily and inexplicably biased toward precincts that voted for Gregoire more so than the county as a whole.

2. There has been no real explanation why the signatures weren't validated in the first place. County Politburo Chief Larry Phillips, who somehow discovered this problem when his own name was on a list of rejected voters, claimed that there might have been a mix-up because he doesn't normally vote absentee.

But his situation didn't apply to everyone. I have a copy of the county voter registration file from June of this year (it's available to the public for a nominal charge). Phillips is indeed listed in the file as a non-absentee voter. But nearly half the people in the list of 573 were registered as permanent absentee voters this summer. And many of them are shown to have voted in recent elections. Were their ballots accepted before but not this time? Why?

Another 140 or so of the voters on the list of 573 weren't registered to vote in June. How is it that some old absentee voters, new absentee voters, and brand new voters all were affected by the same issue?

3. It turns out that the county had, in fact, tried to contact some of these voters months ago to inform them that they had to correct signature problems:

Elections Superintendent Bill Huennekens said 101 of the 573 voters were sent letters in August asking for updated signatures and none responded.

and some of the signatures might not even be on file. Could it be that some of these "voters" don't really exist? Nevertheless, Ukrainian officials will bend themselves ass over knee to turn Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck into living breathing Democratic voters :

Election officials so far have found signatures for 245 of the voters. The canvassing board yesterday asked an attorney for an opinion on whether it is too late to accept new signatures from other voters.

And maybe they can also arrange for Democrats and their imaginary playmates who were too busy to go to the polling place on Nov. 2 to finally cast their ballots.

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The state GOP raised a number of other questions in a letter to the Ukrainian canvassing board.

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This just in: "Cascading errors shake voter confidence"

King County's elections director conceded yesterday that major mistakes in the count of the governor's race have made voters suspicious and likely weakened some of what he's tried to do since coming in after the division's last poor showing.
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Angry Rossi supporters have filled the airwaves of talk radio and e-mailed reporters with comparisons between Seattle and the corruption of the Richard J. Daley regime in Chicago in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, or the current problems in Ukraine.

I'm told they do some of that on blogs, too.
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