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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: WWWWWWWWWW who wrote (23935)12/29/2004 3:13:20 PM
From: Orcastraiter  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
That would have been great, if King County weren't pulling new ballots out of their a*s with each new recount.

What's up with that? Finding new batches here, another packet there... check the basement again, maybe there's more down there.

Kind of embarrassing for that state, IMO.


Agreed...it is embarrassing for King County. But it's not like it was a conspiracy to manufacture votes. I mean most of the Ballots were from a chunk of voters who's names began with the letters A thru C. What is more embarrassing to me is how the republicans were saying that if your name begins with A-C your vote doesn't count.

And when you consider that King County has more votes to count than any other county doesn't it make sense that they might discover more problems than the smaller counties?

The recount discovered more than 1200 new ballots outside of King County. Add to that the some 600 ballots that were added in King County. I think that about a third of the votes in the state come from King County, so it makes sense that about a third of the ballots in error would be there too. This of course ignores the problems of scale in dealing with a large population of voters where no one really knows any of the voters. In some of the smaller counties, corrections were made simply because the auditor personally knows most of the voters.

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