Posted on 10/25/2007 11:31:13 AM PDT by Publius
That was just your baby's way of saying good riddance to the wicked witch of the left and all her flying monkeys in the legislature.
I think they tapped this well in '04 to get Fraudoire in. Once they realized how close it was going to be, the word went out, dig up those votes. How many times did King Co. turn up batches of "lost" or "uncounted" ballots, like nine or ten times, during the final "recount", that put Fraudoire over the top? And how convenient it was, I'm sure just an innocent coincidence, that a rabid 'Rat activist "just happened" to notice that his name was on a list of "rejected" ballots, that opened the floodgates to "finding" more and more "lost" or "wrongly rejected" ballots.
My goodness. I certainly hope you don’t live in my town!
Oh, I forgot..... ;)
You'd better do just that, it's the only way it will be fair if it is any kind of close contest. IIRC, during the so-called "recount" that put Fraudoire over the top, in King Co. they had teams of ballot "inspectors" looking over questionable ballots, trying to divine "voter intent". Of course, they stacked the deck in favor of the 'Rats. Each three-person team had two 'Rats and one 'Pub. Some fairness there, I'm sure. They counted a ballot for Fraudoire that had a random mark along the one edge, and nothing else marked. They counted the one ballot for Fraudoire that had a write-in for "Christine Rossi". I guess they went on the basis of first name for voter intent. Sheesh...
And now I suspect Cantwell's 2000 victory over Gorton was also "massaged".
How many times did King Co. turn up batches of "lost" or "uncounted" ballots, like nine or ten times...
13 times.
And how convenient it was, I'm sure just an innocent coincidence, that a rabid 'Rat activist "just happened" to notice that his name was on a list of "rejected" ballots, that opened the floodgates to "finding" more and more "lost" or "wrongly rejected" ballots.
In those days, Larry Phillips was part of Ron Sims' posse. Today they are both interested in Sims' job, and they are enemies.
He no sooner finished speaking than I got an e-mail message asking for money. These guys are good.
Perhaps a page could be taken from King County’s book. What say, Republicans?
They're real good! I'd made a contribution before he finished speaking! *\;-)
Excellent news! I’m definitely ready for a change...
NO. There have been some cleanups of things pointed out by Sharkansky (http://www.soundpolitics.com) but there’s no telling that the same vote fraud won’t happen again, namely the ‘discovery’ of votes not counted and also the blatant ballot stuffing that was witnessed at voting stations in Seattle in 2004.
There is one county, King’s County, that controls the election and it is headed up by Ron Sims, County Executive. He is corruption personified, willing to fire people at will who dare speak up about ‘irregularities’ in the county elections office.
But Sharkansky and crew are forensic vote investigators and for sure will uncover much fraud but only after it happens. Unfortunately, challenges to vote fraud must be done before voting and not after. The 2004 vote fraud trial uncovered over 1600 fraudulent votes which the court acknowledged but refused to do anything about.
Unless turnout is huge outside King County, Gregoire and her government union backers will pull off a win, legally or illegally. If the vote is close, they will wait as they did last time and see how many votes to come up with. If Rossi is well ahead, they will have absentee votes straggle in until she is put over the top. Sharkansky and crew will uncover all this but only the State Attorney General can be relied on to do anything about it; but no one will be expecting anything be done. The vote gathering and counting process is highly regulated but there always seems to be a bag of votes that appears from nowhere, that someone excuses as a ‘mistake’ for not noticing and then there is the rallying cry ‘Count Every Vote!’ so that there will be no denying to count these magical bags of votes.
But Rossi is a star candidate and just maybe he will pull it out somehow. He has had 54% - 56% support since the 2004 election robbery and Gregoire’s negatives are still high. So who knows? We can hope.
Dino can win this if it isn’t close. He has to win by a big margin. We can do this!
After losing the trial case in front of a liberal judge he knew there would be no way he would win an appeal with all the liberal judges we have here.
He did the right thing and now he can come back much stronger than before.
Were Going to do it!
That's not what happened. The judge was a strict constructionist conservative judge -- and that was the problem.
Washington adopted California's election contest law, and it sets a very high bar for challenging a vote. The law made it impossible to effectively challenge the thousands of fraudulent ballots cast in King County. The Republican case was that the election contest law violated the state constitution's provision for a revote in the event of fraud or incompetence. Thus, the Republicans argued the state constitution and the prior case of a 1974 revote, but did not and could not argue the current law. This was why the Democrats' lawyers moved for dismissal immediately after the Republicans had made their case. The judge chose not to dismiss, but if he had, he would have been right to do so.
As a strict constructionist, he felt he had to apply the election contest law as written by the legislature, which is the proper representative of the people. He felt it was not his province to overturn the election contest law; that was the province of a higher court. In his decision, he said the proper recourse of the Republicans was to go to the legislature and get the law changed or repealed. His decision was everything a strict constructionist could have wanted -- but it was not what the Republicans wanted.
Democrat Phil Talmadge later said that Rossi should have appealed because the election contest law was blatantly unconstitutional due to the fact that it effectively invalidated a provision of the state constitution. I only wish Talmadge had said this during the election contest process and had volunteered to make the Republicans' case before the state supreme court. We might have had a different outcome.
They’ve fixed it for good. Now ALL the votes are mail in.
We have never done this have we?
Republicans were involved in the minor changes enacted to state electoral law, but insofar as they were the minority in both houses of the legislature, the major changes they wanted never made it out of committee.
I am so glad to hear that Dino has decided to run again.
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