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To: Neeka who wrote (92332)	12/26/2004 4:40:40 PM
From: KLP	of 793843

SoundPolitics this AM~~Garbage In, Garbage Out December 26, 2004 soundpolitics.com One of the (many) reasons to set aside our tainted gubernatorial race is because King Ukraine County's voter information database is full of garbage. Leaving aside the thousands of questionable registrations that we'll continue to document, the database simply has so many errors in it that it would be folly to trust the county's data processing capabilities to give us the correct answer when the tolerance for error is as tight as it is in this race. The following example is not by itself a show-stopping smoking gun, but it is illustrative of the mess to which we would entrust the determination of who gets to run the state for the next four years. By state law, the voter information that every county must maintain and publish shall include a list of the most recent elections in which every voter has voted. I wrote a script to process the June 2004 KC voter file to tabulate how many currently registered King County voters had participated in each of the last elections. Among the other figures, the report included the following: Election Voters November 2004 3 November 2005 8 February 2006 43 November 2006 2 November 2007 181 January 2010 8 September 2011 1 November 2012 1 March 2015 2 June 2017 3 September 2017 1 September 2019 1 February 2029 1 September 2030 2 September 2055 1 Total Future Elections 258 Some of these elections, such as November 2007, include several people who are scheduled to vote twice! [joke: The November 2004 is obviously wrong, but the other numbers might in fact be prescient. If these guys keep screwing up as badly as they have been doing, why should anybody bother to vote in the future?] But in all seriousness, if King County's data processors can believe that 258 people have already voted in elections that are months and years into the future, why should we trust them to determine within 130 the number of people who voted last month? Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at 11:50 AM \| Comments (5) Categories: 2004 Governor's Race State law referenced above: leg.wa.gov

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