Posted on 12/29/2004 6:58:10 PM PST by Publius
Call your state legislators to urge that they call for a revote. The legislative hotline is 800-562-6000.
The following is the text of a letter sent today to Christine Gregoire from Dino Rossi:
December 29, 2004
Attorney General Christine Gregoire
1125 Washington Street
Olympia, WA 98504
Dear Attorney General Gregoire:
The Secretary of State will certify you as governor-elect tomorrow. Although you will be certified, with all the problems that have plagued this process there won’t be many people in our state who believe with certainty that you actually won the election. The uncertainty surrounding this election process isn’t just bad for you and me – it is bad for the entire state. People need to know for sure that the next governor actually won the election.
We’ve now had three counts – I was certified the victor after Counts 1 and 2, and you will be certified tomorrow as the victor of Count 3. Throughout the entire process, King County Elections staff changed the rules about which ballots would count and, at the end, the Supreme Court also changed the rules. As it now stands, some people in King County had the rules changed so their votes could count, while other wrongfully disenfranchised people across the state – including many members of our military – have been denied the opportunity to have their votes counted.
Additionally, I don’t believe you’ll find many people in this state who think the hand recount was more accurate than the first two counts. Even some Democratic elections officials have said hand counts are less accurate. So we’re now in a situation where nobody really knows who won this election.
Our next governor should enter office without any doubt about the legitimacy of his or her office. The people of Washington deserve to know that their governor was elected fair and square. Unfortunately, the events of the past few weeks now make it impossible for you or me to take office on January 12 without being shrouded in suspicion.
The law allows me to contest the election. An election contest would bring every questioned aspect of this election before the Legislature or a court for review. It would take many weeks, perhaps months, to complete. At the end, even if the results were to change back in my favor, the state would have suffered from the long, drawn-out process.
For several weeks, former Secretary of State Ralph Munro has argued that this election will never be seen as legitimate and that the best option is to put it back into the hands of the voters for a revote. If our roles were reversed, if you had won twice and I had only won in the less-accurate hand recount, I would support a revote. I would not want to enter office with so many people viewing my governorship as illegitimate.
The only good answer is for the people to decide, once and for all, who is the next governor. A revote would be the best solution for the people of our state, and would give us a legitimate governorship. If you and I were to join together and ask the Legislature to pass a bill calling for a special election, the bill would pass quickly, as soon as the 2005 session begins. The revote could be held as soon as possible.
I hope you will agree that a revote makes the most sense to build back people’s trust in our election process, and I look forward to your response.
Best regards,
Dino Rossi
crouse_la@leg.wa.gov
schindle_ly@leg.wa.gov
mccaslin_bo@leg.wa.gov
What would you have said in 2000 if Gore asked for a revote in Florida?.........
Dino WON this race - twice. He only "lost" a corrupted, inaccurate hand recount, after liberal King County "found" additional ballots NINE TIMES. Over 500 people in one precinct were listed as having the same address - and that precinct went Gregoire in a landslide.
You can't compare Dino to Gore. Dino WON.
Okay, you want a revote. Let's say the next result is back to 42 votes for Rossi. Do we get another revote for that? When does it all end? If Rossi can ask for a revote why couldn't Gore ask for a revote in Florida based on stupid democratic voters and the supposed "butterfly" ballot.
Revotes won't cure fraud. Tightening the voting laws will. In the last 10-15 years we have allowed the democrats to loosen voter laws to the point we don't know who is voting or how often. Motor Voter, voter registration through third parties, absentee ballots handled by political parties, no requirements for i.d. at polling places, provisional ballots. These are all the open doors to fraud which I am 99% sure none of the members of this board have ever had to use. If you want to fix fraud, then fix it. If you want to see endless elections year round start revoting.
Rockrr, I will grant you two things: 1) yes, my analogy was inelegant and 2) your elegance with words captures perfectly what I intended to imply but didn't take the time.
Thanks
My impression of things as they stand now is that Rossi has offered Gregoire ("Fraudoire" is my preferred appellation), the shoplifter, a chance to put the stolen goods down and exit the store and return as an honest shopper. The shoplifter has refused and thus Rossi has every right to pursue justice. We'll find out on Jan. 22nd what weapon he elects to use.
You don't live in Washington, so I don't know who you mean by "we".
Maybe you don't understand. Right now, the result is so tarnished, so flawed, so corrupted, that the ONLY remedy would be to start from scratch.
You're just plain wrong.
We should really just roll over, for the sake of the country. That makes sense.
So when you revote, are you going to fix any of your ballot handling problems? Sounds like your election laws either need to be rewritten or they weren't followed in the first place.
They were changed mid-process to benefit Gregoire.
I'm not saying those things don't need to be changed - they do. I am saying that walking away from this fight would be the wrong decision. Most Washington Freepers agree with me, because we are here and have witnessed everything that has happened. We can't let them just HAVE this without a fight.
We know that one corrupt county, run by extreme liberals, is in control of the whole state - and they stole the election for their candidate. We don't want to send a message that we're all right with that.
Peace, sister.
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Just like the Florida of 2000...
all Military Votes must be counted...
in the Washington of 2004.
.."For after all,
they're the ones out there...
risking their lives...
for that Right"..
...stated "ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer in a KNBC-TV Channel 4 Interview at Freerepublic.com's 'Sore-Loserman/Count the Military Votes' Demonstration held outside the Los Angeles Federal Bldg during November 2000.
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Peace...(this sucks, actually).
Years ago I got on a demo mailing list because I agreed with someone on one issue -- a land conservation thing. Anyway, I used to read some of the messages and they were constantly talking about a state income tax. I think they temporarily dropped the idea while Locke was in office. It would surprise me if the idea doesn't return at the highest level.
No, I don't think so - some of that stuff is probably true, but I think the greater issue is that none of us want to accept such an obviously corrupted result. That's my biggest issue, anyway. We don't have to take this, and we shouldn't.
It's not as important for Rossi to be governor here and now as it is important for us to know the true will of the people, and the Democrats have corrupted the result. King County bungled this badly (we have witnessed what I believe to be blatant cheating), and things across the state have not been handled in an even-handed way. It's not fair to Dino, but more importantly, it's not fair to those who voted for him.
Re-vote. It's the only solution, at this point.
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