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however, I hope this does not backfire and provide Democrats with a platform upon which to build lawsuits for the presidency. The whole situation I think puts us all in a precarious situation because we either ignore voter fraud and genuinely disenfranchised voters; OR we (and by we, I'm speaking in generalities, as I neither reside in nor vote in Washington state) stand up for those whose votes were overlooked, not counted, manipulated, etc., yet give ammunition to the Democrats for future court battles. Unfortunately a great majority of those on the beach are left leaning at best (from my experience anyway) so the law suit could end up making Republicans look just as bad as Algore looked in 2000.

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I'm sorry-are you suggesting that the Republican Party is guilty of voter fraud?

This poster makes some valid points. The democrat leftist operatives such as MoveOn.org have provided plenty of interviews whereby it is obvious to the most casual observer that they scoff at rules, procedures and law.

What this poster is perhaps referring to is the threat that these leftist operators could insert poison pills into elections by fabricating false ballots in republican strongholds and then claiming a proportional analysis will change the result. I am not the 1st to raise this as a red flag.

Think back to the 2000 primary which had alot of union democrats ordered to the republican primary to vote in the weaker nominee (McCain versus Bush). The aftermath had alot of states rewriting their primary election statutes to allow only party registered persons to vote in their party primaries. That battle still rages on in Washington State.

What is needed is a national campaign for vote reform to shore up safeguards for validating elections. This could include database crosschecks, voter id, voter reregistering and so on.

Hopefully Washington State will lead as a pathfinder to clean up a national systemic problem.

I'm not saying in this case Republicans are. Is there potentially a Republican operative out there who violated the law - I don't know. That wasn't the point though I was trying to make.

My point is, from a "PR" stand point, Republicans can loose some face for seeming to drag out the gubernatorial election. While I'm not a big believer in "polls" and the like, popular opinion is often what drives elections, and this could potentially case Republicans to fall out of favor with potential voters and cause elections that may have gone Republican to "go Democrat". I was just trying to say that while I think it's great that voter fraud is being investigated, it could turn out to be a bad move. BUT I in no way meant to implicate, imply, allege, or otherwise allude to any Republican voter fraud and apologize if such was the tone.

Overall, I'm sure the case is in the hands of talented and knowledgeable attorneys, as well as party members. My only concern is that this will somehow backfire, and even when Republicans are right, Democrats still manage to turn it around in public opinion.