Stunning...
Oh how I love being an instigator. I'm also not sure if any of these questions have been brought up yet, I didn't read through the 200 or so comments.
1. How can it be proved that the problems(military votes, mystery ballots) benefitted Democrats?
2. I'm new to this issue so were any of these questions raised before the recounts?
3. Why should these claims be considered substantial while many other claims of voting problems, country wide, are written off by many people?
I do believe the mystery ballots should be publicly accounted for. All irregularities should get attention and there should be attempts to fix known problems.
If this is true, then the FBI should be going after his ISP for the ID of whoever sent the email. And Shataransky should give the name up to the feds, too.
January 12, 2005
To: Secretary of State Subject Notice of commencement of Recall Effort
Attention: Sam Reed sreed@secstate.wa.gov
Honorable Secretary of State Sam Reed.
This notice is filed and served on you in accordance with RCW 29A.56.110 and RCW 29A.56.120.
Should you desire to be served as for the commencement of a civil action in superior court, you will be accommodated if so requested by return e-mail
Petition to Recall Sam Reed, Washington State Secretary of State
In accordance with RCW 29A.56.110, Initiating proceedings -- Statement -- Contents -- Verification - Definitions, the undersigned legal registered voters of the state of Washington demand the recall and discharge of Sam Reed, Washington State Secretary of State, under the provisions of sections 33 and 34 of Article 1 of the Constitution.
We, the undersigned citizens and registered voters in the state of Washington charge Sam Reed, of the herein stated acts of malfeasance, and acts of misfeasance while in office, and violating his oath of office, guilty of any two or more of the acts specified in the Constitution as grounds for recall.
For the purposes of this recall, as provided by state law:
(1) "Misfeasance" or "malfeasance" in office means any wrongful conduct that affects, interrupts, or interferes with the performance of official duty;
(a) Additionally, "misfeasance" in office means the performance of a duty in an improper manner; and
(b) Additionally, "malfeasance" in office means the commission of an unlawful act;
(2) "Violation of the oath of office" means the neglect or knowing failure by an elective public officer to perform faithfully a duty imposed by law.
This Petition for the Recall of Sam Reed, Washington State Secretary of State, to the Honorable Sam Reed, Washington State Secretary of State, is filed in accordance with RCW 29A.72.140 .
We, citizens and legal voters of the state of Washington, respectfully direct that a special election be called to determine whether or not Sam Reed, Washington State Secretary of State, should be recalled and discharged from his office, for and on account of having committed the act or acts of malfeasance or misfeasance while in office, or having violated his oath of office, in the following particulars:
1. RCW 29A.04.610 Rules by secretary of state
(4) The examination and testing of voting systems for certification;
(9) Standards and procedures to ensure the accurate tabulation and canvassing of ballots;
(10) Consistency among the counties of the state in the preparation of ballots, the operation of vote tallying systems, and the canvassing of primaries and elections;
(15) Voter registration applications and records;
(19) Procedures to receive and distribute voter registration applications by mail;
(22) Procedures for canceling dual voter registration records and for maintaining records of persons whose voter registrations have been canceled;
(31) The testing, approval, and certification of voting systems;
(33) Standards and procedures to prevent fraud and to facilitate the accurate processing and canvassing of absentee ballots and mail ballots;
(35) Uniformity among the counties of the state in the conduct of absentee voting and mail ballot elections;
(36) Standards and procedures to accommodate out-of-state voters, overseas voters, and service voters;
(40) Procedures for conducting a statutory recount;
and each of us for himself or herself says: I have personally signed this petition; I am a legal voter of the State of Washington in the precinct and city (or town) and county written after my name, and my residence address is correctly stated, and to my knowledge, have signed this petition only once.
We, citizens and legal voters of the state of Washington, understand that Sam Reed, Washington State Secretary of State, was elected by 1,369,421 voters, which RCW 29A.56.180 requires 25% of who voted for Sam Reed, or 342,356 signatures, to sign a petition that would be submitted to recall him from his office by state law.
In addition to violating his prescribed office duties and obligations, we, the citizens signing and filing this petition, charge Sam Reed, Washington Secretary of State, with violation of the following:
RCW 42.20.100 Failure of duty by public officer a misdemeanor
Whenever any duty is enjoined by law upon any public officer or other person holding any public trust or employment, their willful neglect to perform such duty, except where otherwise specially provided for, shall be a misdemeanor.
RCW 42.20.040 False report
Every public officer who shall knowingly make any false or misleading statement in any official report or statement, under circumstances not otherwise prohibited by law, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
RCW 42.20.050 Public officer making false certificate
Every public officer who, being authorized by law to make or give a certificate or other writing, shall knowingly make and deliver as true such a certificate or writing containing any statement which he knows to be false, in a case where the punishment thereof is not expressly prescribed by law, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
RCW 9A.80.010 Official misconduct
(1) A public servant is guilty of official misconduct if, with intent to obtain a benefit or to deprive another person of a lawful right or privilege:
(a) He intentionally commits an unauthorized act under color of law; or
(b) He intentionally refrains from performing a duty imposed upon him by law.
(2) Official misconduct is a gross misdemeanor.
The specific violations Sam Reed, Washington State Secretary of State, is guilty of, in accordance with RCW 43.07.030 (6) [Certification to the legislature the election returns for all officers required by the Constitution to be so certified, and certify to the governor the names of all other persons who have received at any election the highest number of votes for any office the incumbent of which is to be commissioned by the governor] are as follows:
1) King County alone counted 3,539 more votes than the number of people who actually voted.
2) King County "discovered" additional ballots 9 different times (as of 01/10/2005);
3) King County disenfranchised 300+ soldiers in Iraq who never received their ballot in time to return by the deadline;
4) Poll workers fed provisional ballots directly into counting machines, commingling them with legal ballots and circumventing the process of keeping them out of the count if they proved to be illegal.
5) Elections workers "enhanced" more than 55,000 ballots, and contrary to state law, they permanently obscured the original marks on many, preventing a review of their decisions;
6) There are at least 557 names in the Jan. 7 file for people who supposedly voted on Nov. 2, but who weren't listed in the Nov. 1 file. Only 94 of the 557 are in the Dec. 29 file. There are a number of pre-2004 registration dates among the 557, but many of these aren't in the June file. 280 of the 557 are shown to have registered on dates between Jun 7, 2004 and Oct. 2, 2004, yet did not appear in any of the earlier versions of the King County voter databases.
7) Seattle's Precinct 1823 counted 343 ballots, which is 71 more ballots than the 272 voters who cast them. This is the single largest discrepancy between ballots and voters in all of King County. Nearly all of the discrepancy is due to "provisional ballots".
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