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To: PatiBob who wrote (88538)	12/17/2004 1:50:54 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

King Co is just a MESS! This blogger has been keeping up and is as furious as I am.... December 17, 2004 All You Need Is The Punch Line soundpolitics.com Yesterday, suspecting that the re-recount in King County had become a universal joke, I tried out just the punch line at a local Safeway and a local McDonald's. In each case, I just said, with no set up line, that I hoped they had looked for any stray ballots; in each case I got a chuckle. And that was before this revelation, that King County may have "misplaced" 162 absentee ballots, in addition to all the others they have misplaced. King County election officials will enter a locked "cage" in a warehouse this morning to look for a plastic mail tray they believe contains up to 162 misplaced absentee ballots. Elections Director Dean Logan said the ballots, like 573 other ballots that were improperly rejected, were set aside because workers couldn't find voter signatures that corresponded to them. But unlike the other ballots, these apparently were left behind and forgotten. Could we forget to pay the person who did this — until they quit? It's drastic, but I can see the sense in Ralph Munro's proposal that we do the election over. Cross posted at Jim Miller on Politics. (Feel free to try my experiment with the punch line. I'd be interested to know whether most ordinary citizens get the joke, especially in Seattle. The Safeway and the McDonald's are right on the boundary between areas that voted for Gregoire and areas that voted for Rossi, for what it's worth. And here's a suggestion for an enterprising journalist: The elected official most responsible for this fiasco is King County Executive Ron Sims. Why not ask him if he is still defending his elections office? He was just a few days ago.) Posted by Jim Miller at 07:03 AM \| Comments (27) Categories: 2004 Governor's Race