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>>>While the liberal media is circling the wagons aroung RINO Reed, here are the facts why a political obituary is appropriate:
1) King County alone counted 3,539 more votes than the number of people who actually voted.
2) King County "discovered" additional ballots 9 different times.
3) King County disenfranchised some soldiers in Iraq who never received their ballot.
4) Poll workers fed many provisional ballots directly into counting machines, commingling them with legal ballots and circumventing the process of keeping thm out of the count if they proved to be illegal.
5) Elections workers "enhanced" more than 55,000 ballots, but contrary to state law, they permanently obscured the original marks on many, preventing a review of their decisions.
6) In a recent KING 5 poll, a majority of voters do not view the results of the election as legitimate and believe there should be another election.
Here are a few things Reed should have done:
1) Develop Rules to implement the Help America Vote Act of 2002. HAVA requires a computerized statewide voter registration list that is "uniform, official, and centralized" containing a record of every legally registered individual. If this database was created, it certainly wasn't used to scrub the illegal voters. Instead while felons voted from jail, soldiers were disenfranchised;
2) Protect the absolute secrecy of ballots. The State Constitution (Article 6, Section 6) requires "absolute secrecy" in the handling of ballots. Yet while Reed sat idly by, a King County judge gave over the names of over 400 voters whose signatures didn't match records to Democratic operatives. Those operatives solicited affidavits (and may have forged signatures). So much for absolute secrecy. Reed now proposes election reform that would preclude the handling of affidavits by 3rd parties.
3) Don't certify the results if counties are unable to reconcile their voter lists with ballots cast. State law requires the Secretary of State to "Certify to the legislature the election returns for all officers required by the Constitution . . ." RCW 43.10.030. Yet why did Reed rush to certify the results before King County could reconcile its voter list?
What else can you add to the political obituary of Sam Reed?
(Editorial note: After a flood of comments, by popular demand, I have removed the reference to a recent natural disaster.)
Posted by Tim Ford at 12:01 PM | Comments (44)
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