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To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (683124)	5/23/2005 12:00:15 AM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The GOP hack lost. Get over it.

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (683124)	5/23/2005 12:15:07 AM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It's not just the Felon vote........Washington State Elections Superintendent Bill Huennekens filed a false report after the Nov election with the county canvassing board, which certifies election results. Court proceedings to overthrow the Nov election results starts in Chelan county tomorrow morning. Does this illegal activity on the part of a democrat surprise anyone? seattletimes.nwsource.com Steven (the Shark) Sharkansky had this on his blog. May 21, 2005 A conscious effort to throw the election to Gregoire By now it's firmly established that King County Elections officials (1) violated state laws by failing to properly account for their absentee ballots, and (2) conspired to falsify ballot records in order to conceal this problem from the canvassing board prior to certification. The Democrats will argue that this was simply a matter of sloppy accounting with no evidence that it changed the outcome of the election. In fact, it points to a conscious effort to throw the election to Christine Gregoire -- Continue reading "A conscious effort to throw the election to Gregoire" One of the Republican arguments is that there were 875 more absentee ballots tabulated than there were absentee voters. I haven't seen the analysis they'll present as evidence, but I arrive at the same number by taking the figure of 873 that I came up with on April 7 and adding the 2 subsequently discovered uncounted absentee ballots. Now, let's suppose that Bill Huennekens publicly admitted the gaps in the absentee ballot accounting and other discrepancies prior to certification: The canvassing board would have been obligated to order that the absentee ballots be recanvassed, even if it meant a manual recount of the absentee ballot envelopes. Indeed, that would have had to be done as part of the manual recount, with partisan observers recounting all of the envelopes as others were recounting all of the ballots. Similar efforts would have been conducted to manually recanvass poll books and provisional ballots. After all, other errors were corrected by recanvassing certain ballots during the recounts. The "Larry Phillips" no-signature ballots were recanvassed, adding 566 mostly Gregoire votes to the tally. If they could do that, they should have also manually recanvassed any other known discrepancies, such as the surplus of hundreds more ballots than voters. They would have had to correct, or at least report, these errors. If the numbers of ballots still equalled the sum of the absentee ballot envelopes, provisional envelopes and poll book signatures, then fine. If it were disclosed that there were still hundreds more ballots than there were voter signatures, then the post-election political dynamic would have been very different. The legislature could not have gotten away with simply certifying Gregoire's "129 vote victory" without some other remedy. By recanvassing some ballots while concealing discrepancies with other ballots, Bill Huennekens and whoever else knew about the discrepancies consciously threw the election to Christine Gregoire. Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at 10:56 AM \| Comments (69) \| Email This soundpolitics.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (683124)	5/23/2005 8:32:42 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Sex offenders get Viagra paid for by Medicaid Monday, May 23, 2005 Posted: 1:29 AM EDT (0529 GMT) NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York's comptroller urged the nation's top health official Sunday to ban high-risk sex offenders and convicted rapists from receiving Viagra paid for by Medicaid. "Federal, state and local reimbursement for the cost of erectile dysfunction drugs for sex offenders raises serious policy considerations and has the potential to place the public at risk," Comptroller Alan Hevesi wrote Michael Leavitt, secretary of Health and Human Services. "I am asking that you take immediate action to ensure that sex offenders do not receive erectile dysfunction medication paid for by the taxpayers. I urge you to take administrative action to remedy the situation or draft an amendment to the underlying statute as appropriate," Hevesi wrote. Hevesi said his office found that from January 1, 2000, through March 31, 2005, 198 Level 3 sex offenders received Medicaid-reimbursed Viagra after being convicted of a sex offense. Sex offenders are those convicted of crimes such as rape, sexual abuse, and sexual conduct against a child. Level 3 offenders are those considered by the courts most likely to commit crimes again. According to Hevesi, his office determined in its audit that the victims of the sex crimes during the five-year period ranged from toddlers to a woman as old as 90; and the crimes included first-degree rape. Hevesi said he also has alerted the State Department of Health, which administers the Medicaid program in New York. The review has not yet examined whether any of the Level 3 offenders are receiving prescriptions for other erectile dysfunction drugs which came on the market after the 1998 directive. Hevesi said his office did not look at Level 1 (low) and Level 2 (moderate) offenders. The New York Sex Offender Registration Act requires the Division of Criminal Justice Services to maintain a Sex Offender Registry, and post a list of Level 3 offenders on the Internet.