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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (94595)	1/10/2005 10:12:31 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793804

Just these numbers alone are more than the difference between the two candidates, and Gorton said that's all that it had to be... King County wound up e-mailing and faxing ballots to some military and overseas voters. The county issued a total of 15,289 military and overseas ballots. Of those, 12,694 were returned and all but 220 were found to be valid and counted, according to statistics from the King County elections division. Besides, at this point, with ALL the mistakes, goofups, just "found" votes, addresses wrong, dead people voting, felons voting, and more ballots than actual voters.....ETC....I'm not at all sure that I trust King County with anything, much less important things like counting ballots correctly.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (94595)	1/11/2005 11:56:57 AM
From: arno	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793804

Don't Count Rossi Out A stolen election in Washington state? Not if bloggers can help it. John Fund wrote an excellent story on Democrat Christine Gregoire's extraordinary attempt to steal Washington's governorship from Dino Rossi, the Republican who won the office before Donks recounted King County ballots until they were able to hand her a 129 vote victory. Here are some of the salient points that judges pondering whether to order a new election must consider. --At least 1,200 more votes were counted in Seattle's King County than the number of individual voters who can be accounted for. --More than 300 military personnel who were sent their absentee ballots too late to return them have signed affidavits saying they intended to vote for Mr. Rossi. --1 out of 20 ballots in King County that officials felt were marked unclearly were "enhanced" with Wite-Out or pens so that some had their original markings obliterated. --In King County at least 348 unverified provisional ballots were fed directly into vote-counting machines. --King County elections director Dean Logan acknowledges that there were 1200 phantom ballots counted, but states "that does not clearly indicate that the election would have turned out differently." --In Precinct 1823 in downtown Seattle, 527, or 70%, of the 763 registered voters used 500 Fourth Avenue--the King County administration building--as their residential address. --A poll taken last week by Seattle's KING-TV found that by a 20-point margin state residents back a new election, and by 53% to 36% they don't think Mr. Rossi should concede. I will be surprised if Gregoire is sworn in as Governor tomorrow, but if she is my personal hope is that citizens interested in stopping the Mexicanization of American government burn their Capital building down and hang, oh say, 1000 Democrats as a warning. There is a more peaceful possibility however. "[I]n Minnesota after the 1962 election for governor there. Republican Elmer Anderson won a squeaker and was sworn in, but a recount of disputed ballots ground on. A hundred days into Mr. Anderson's term, a panel of three state judges ruled that Democrat Karl Rolvaag had actually won by 91 votes. To end the legal wrangling, Mr. Anderson dropped any appeals and calmly left office, allowing Mr. Rolvaag to move into the governor's mansion." rschultz.blogspot.com

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (94595)	1/11/2005 2:40:05 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793804

Petition w/ 200,000 signatures calling for revote to be delivered during protest... Revote pressure rises Rossi supporters to protest certification of new governor The Herald - Everett, Wash. - www.HeraldNet.com Published: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer OLYMPIA - Forces seeking a new vote for governor will shift their pressure campaign from cyberspace to the grounds of the Capitol today. Nearly 200,000 people have signed an online petition urging a runoff between Democratic Gov.-elect Christine Gregoire and Republican Dino Rossi. Copies will be delivered to state legislative leaders and Supreme Court justices. "We're trying to persuade opinion and get a revote. They're the top court, and they're elected officials," said Sharon Gilpin, the author and a former paid Rossi adviser. Delivery of the petition will precede a morning rally on the Capitol campus where foot soldiers of the growing revote movement will protest today the Legislature's certification of Gregoire as governor. Rossi's campaign organized the rally, but he is not expected to attend. Snohomish County Republicans are busing several dozen people to the event. Democrats plan a small counter-rally at the Capitol. "The Democrats have a choice," Gilpin said. "They can try and legislate with this cloud hanging over who won the election. Or they can make the statesman's choice and have a revote." Today's events are part of a spreading battle to win the hearts and minds of residents and the influence of lawmakers and justices, who may have the final say on whether another election will be held. ReVote Washington, the group created by Gilpin, is driving the effort with its petition that went online Dec. 30. The group raised $35,000 its first week and this past weekend spent $30,000 of it on television advertising in Seattle, Yakima and Spokane soliciting signatures and urging voters to contact their legislators. In the meantime, the Building Industry Association of Washington bought full-page ads in newspapers in recent days trumpeting the call. The ad asserts that if the Ukraine can hold another election, Washington can too. In response, the Washington State Labor Council and Service Employees International Union phoned union members this weekend urging them to call their representatives to oppose a revote. "We feel the vast majority of people are ready to move on, but the legislators are only hearing from riled-up Republicans," said David Groves, spokesman for the state labor council. "We don't want any legislator thinking there aren't people out there who support certifying the election. There are." And the state Democratic Party spent $50,000 on radio ads that ran from Friday to Sunday. The 60-second spot featured Gov. Gary Locke calling it a close but fair election. "Every ballot that was legitimately cast was counted. It's now time to move on," he says in the ad. Gregoire is scheduled to deliver her inaugural address at noon Wednesday. Last week Rossi sued to set aside Gregoire's 129-vote victory, claiming miscues and possible wrongdoing in ballot counting raised doubts on whether she won. The challenge was filed in Chelan County and a hearing could be held as early as next week. In the meantime, more is being learned about the cost of the recount for the state Republican and Democratic parties. The state Republican Party raised nearly $420,000 in December to pay for expenses related to the hand recount, according to documents filed with the state Public Disclosure Commission. The report that was due by midnight Monday detailed contributions and expenditures in the month of December. The state Democratic Party had not filed its report by late Monday. Party spokeswoman Kirsin Brost said it would show contributions of about $1 million, much of it used for the initial payment for the hand recount. Copyright ©1996-2005. The Daily Herald Co. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.