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To: LindyBill who wrote (93134)	12/31/2004 6:38:22 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793904

Total Meltdown in King County Voter List Sound Politics It was last reported that there were 3,539 more ballots counted in King County than voters who cast them. The discrepancy is actually much larger. The 3,539 is only the net. This comes from having roughly 1,500 more voters than counted ballots in some precincts, and about 5,000 more ballots than known voters in other precincts. [This picks up where I left off in the post below about Precinct 3301. I can find only 41 precinct changes among counted voters in the Dec. 29 file since the Nov. 1 file and these appear to be provisional voters who corrected their precincts at the polls. Conclusion: in certain precincts there are about 1,500 more known voters who cast ballots that were accepted than there are ballots that were counted in the manual recount]. Bob Williams of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation brought to my attention several sections of the WAC that govern the canvassing boards. As I read the WACs, the King County canvassing board should not have certified its election without getting the count of voters to reconcile with the count of ballots, and that is something that they obviously have not done. Among these: WAC 434-262-040 Verification of auditor's abstract of votes. The county canvassing board shall examine the auditor's abstract of votes and shall verify that all of the individual precinct and absentee ballot totals have been included in the abstract and that the subtotals and county-wide totals for registered voters and votes cast are an accurate reflection of the sum of those individual precinct and absentee ballot totals. [See the other sections in chapter 434-262 for related rules]. I suspect that the canvassing board simply checked the total number of registered voters on the rolls and not the number of voters who cast ballots. But that would be terribly lame if that's all they think they're required to do. In any case, I would be very surprised if King County will be able to account for both 1,500 ballotless voters and 5,000 voterless ballots. The few explanations that have been offered, confidential voters and military voters, only account for about 100 and at most 200 voterless ballots respectively.

To: LindyBill who wrote (93134)	12/31/2004 6:39:40 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Respond to of 793904

Artie Shaw will be doing the Lindy in the sky now, RIP. truthnews.net Artie Shaw, the jazz clarinetist and famed American bandleader, has died at the age of 94, after a lengthy illness. Shaw, one of the major figures of the swing and big-band era, became a national star with "Begin the Beguine" in 1938. Another of his many recorded hits was "Stardust." Shaw was ranked with such notables as Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey, among the greatest bandleaders of the time. He was among the first white bandleaders to hire a black singer full time when Billie Holiday joined his group. Shaw abruptly stopped performing in 1954, but reorganized a band in the early 1980s that featured another clarinetist leading the orchestra.