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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....

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To: Sully- who wrote (11718)5/15/2006 10:53:17 AM
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Washington State Locks the Door after the Election is Won

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Washington has woken up to the fact that their voter rolls were ripe for political corruption. This follows Christine Gregoire's controversial 2004 "election" as governor.

<<< The Secretary of State's Office has deleted about 55,000 registrations from Washington's voter rolls after finding duplicate records and dead voters with the aid of a new statewide database.

The database, put in place earlier this year, allowed the state to find 19,579 dead people still on the rolls and 35,445 duplicate voter records.

"It's a critical piece to help regain the trust and confidence of the voters of the state of Washington," Secretary of State Sam Reed said Friday. "I think we are slowly but surely rebuilding trust in the system."

Voter confidence was shaken in 2004, when Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire narrowly beat Republican Dino Rossi after two recounts. The tumultuous election was replete with lost ballots, mismatched signatures, and dead people and convicted felons casting ballots. Rossi challenged the election in court and lost.
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