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RALEIGH - Six states allowed people to register to vote right up through Election Day last year, and those states had 74 percent of eligible people turn out to vote. In the 44 other states, only 60 percent of eligible people voted, according to data from the U.S. Elections Project at George Mason University. That difference widened some eyes last week at the General Assembly, where legislators are considering a bill that would let people register up to three days before an election. Current state law requires that people sign up 25 days before Election Day, but the bill would...

More and more reports are emerging of the extent to which Democrats were willing to go to try to influence the 2004 election. Well, their tactics worked in Washington State. Our Republican candidate for Governor, Dino Rossi, actually won the election. Then he won the recount. Then Democrat-controlled King County "found" 566 new votes just in time for the second recount, enough to overturn the results of Election Day and the first recount. The new result? Dino Rossi "lost" by 129 votes. But consider the following facts in Washington state; 943 felons illegally voted 49 dead people voted 3 people...

SAN DIEGO -- The state Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to consider whether the city of San Diego violated its charter by allowing a write-in candidate to run for mayor, ending one of several lawsuits challenging the November election. The lawsuit, filed by an attorney who supported third-place finisher Ron Roberts, had sought to nullify the election and force a runoff between Roberts and Mayor Dick Murphy, who won the election and began a second term Dec. 8. Thomas McKinney, a lawyer who works in the office of Roberts supporter John Howard, argued that San Diego should have rejected Councilwoman...

Stephen is being interviewed LIVE about the HUGE scandal, discussing the fraud, scandal and the likelihood of revote, etc.... God Bless Sharkansky and may judgment soon fall on the DemoRATS

Help toss out this election Many readers have asked how they can help mine the county voter databases for indications of illegal voting and other irregularities. The short answer is: Yes, please! The longer answer is: Here is what you have to do to get started 1. Obtain your own copy of the voter list for your favorite county. The county auditors/election officials are required by law to make this information available to the public. This is public information, and the cost is relatively modest, but I'm not going to release my own copy for two reasons: (1) there are...

BC-APNewsAlert,0036 OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Washington state's Supreme Court has ruled that hundreds of belatedly discovered ballots should be counted in the extremely close governor's race. (Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) AP-NY-12-22-04 1630EST

“I am heartened we have an opportunity to right a wrong,” said Dean Logan, director of Records, Elections and Licensing Services. “Clearly an administrative error was made in how these ballots were previously handled and presented to the canvassing board and we have the clear authority under state law to review these ballots.” In it’s ruling, the three-person County Canvassing Board instructed election staff to verify the signatures of 573 previously uncounted ballots. Once signatures have been verified, staff will remove the ballots from their security envelopes for the canvassing board to make a final decision on whether the ballots...

SEATTLE - The election director in Seattle's King County said Monday that hundreds of absentee ballots were mistakenly rejected in the heavily Democratic stronghold — enough to swing the close governor's race to Democrat Christine Gregoire. A statewide hand recount is under way across Washington state after Republican Dino Rossi came out ahead of Gregoire by just 42 votes out of 2.9 million cast. King County Elections Director Dean Logan said he will ask the county Canvass Board on Wednesday to amend the results of the Nov. 2 election in his county. Agreement is likely; Logan has a seat on...

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Washington Democrats, hoping the third time’s the charm, will pay for yet another recount in the state’s ultra-close governor’s race that remains unsettled after more than a month. The party also is heading to the state Supreme Court to seek a ruling that all ballots be treated the same from county to county. Top-ranking Democratic sources said the party has raised the necessary $700,000-plus to recount all 2.9 million votes cast for governor on Nov. 2 -- not just votes in selected counties. A flood of online contributions put the party over the top, the sources said,...

Christine Gregoire is asking her Democratic Party to request a recount all the votes in Washington or don't count at all. Gregoire says she knows it would be cheaper for the party to request a partial recount in a few counties that would likely help her overcome Dino Rossi's 42-vote lead. But she says her goal is to count all the votes in the state to settle the governor's race. The party has until 5 p.m. Friday to request the recount. Democrats have been raising money for the count that would cost about $700,000. The John Kerry campaign donated $250,000...

Gregoire: Count whole state or not at all Kerry gives unused funds for Governor's race recount 11:30 AM PST on Thursday, December 2, 2004 Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. - Christine Gregoire is asking her Democratic Party to request a recount all the votes in Washington or don't count at all. Gregoire says she knows it would be cheaper for the party to request a partial recount in a few counties that would likely help her overcome Dino Rossi's 42-vote lead. But she says her goal is to count all the votes in the state to settle the governor's race. Meanwhile,...

Posted on Thu, Dec. 02, 2004 Ohio certifies Bush win, but some won't give up Disgruntled groups talk of re-count, legal challenge WASHINGTON - Ohio counties certified election results Wednesday showing that President Bush carried the battleground state Nov. 2 and with it won a second term. But the certification did not seal the state results, and disgruntled groups alleging widespread vote fraud plan further action. One coalition plans to seek a re-count. Another plans to file a lawsuit with the state Supreme Court today contesting Bush's victory. Despite these challenges - and rampant rumors on the Internet that Republicans...

The ongoing pension crisis, afflicting California cities and counties that have granted excessively generous retirement benefits to public-employee union members, will no doubt shake up the political landscape at some point. An early sign comes from San Diego, where a liberal environmental activist may become the next mayor of the state's second largest city. Absentee ballot counting is still going on, and Donna Frye, who ran as a write-in candidate, holds a slim lead over Mayor Dick Murphy. Opponents of Frye have filed two lawsuits trying to stop her from winning the race based on the contention that the city's...

Colorado could become the first state to scrap its winner-take-all system of casting electoral college votes for president and replace it with one based on a percentage of the popular vote. Supporters of the Make Your Vote Count campaign filed petitions containing more than 130,000 names Friday with state election officials. "And close to 20 percent of them (the signatures) are from Republicans," said Democratic political consultant Rick Ridder, campaign spokesman. "We see this as a multi-partisan effort." The measure would go into effect immediately for this year's presidential battle if voters approve. Had it been in effect here four...

As a Florida Republican, I listened to the press lie through the 2000 recounts, pause for an obscenely short time after 9-11, and pick up the refrain - the campaign of lies..."Gore won" "Bush is selected."Remember when the press "discovered" the old mildly-intoxicated-while-driving Bush "scandal" a week before the election? Coincidentally, earlier that same day, Janet Reno told the press that she would be opening an investigation into Al Gore's pulling the plug on a multi-year drug investigation (after the Houston detectives cried foul at the cover-up) because the #1 suspect made a BIG $$$ donation to Al's campaign. A mob...

The software that runs many high-tech voting machines contains serious flaws that would allow voters to cast extra votes and permit poll workers to alter ballots without being detected, computer security researchers said yesterday. "We found some stunning, stunning flaws," said Aviel D. Rubin, technical director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University, who led a team that examined the software from Diebold Election Systems, which has about 33,000 voting machines operating in the United States." -------- Since we can't copy a whole article from there I've only used the first paragraphs.

Election officials in two counties have granted Gov. Don Siegelman's request to recount the votes from last week's election for governor that showed Republican Bob Riley with a 3,117-vote lead. James Smith, Tuscaloosa County Democratic chairman, said the three members of the county's election canvassing board approved a recount Tuesday, pending the posting of a $5,000 bond to cover the recount, and the bond was quickly posted. County officials did not immediately set a date for the recount, but state law requires the county to give both sides 24 hours notice. Siegelman's supporters petitioned for a recount Friday in every...

Just hours after early voting began Saturday, Democrats identified problems with Bexar County's new two-page ballot and announced their intention to go to court Monday. "Representing the state Democratic Party, we will ask a judge to examine today's ballots and give some sort of remedy," said county party Chairman Gabe Quintanilla. According to Quintanilla, when he went to vote at McCreless Mall, he was given a two-page ballot that was not stapled or paper-clipped together. He also said he was not instructed to mark both pages of the ballot if he wanted to vote a straight-party ticket — a step...

My bet is that, if Lautenberg wins, he already knows that he will resign within 18 months to allow New Jersy Governor McGreevy to appoint a replacement who will work better with the state democrat bosses. Lautenberg knows this but is a good party man and they have pictures. He will give some ambiguous reason for his resignation and all the leftist media will cluck about the rightness and wisdom of his decision.The interesting part will be the identity of the party worker that will be appointed to replace him. This identity should be the subject of betting in Las...

Despite ringing international condemnation of Zimbabwe's weekend elections, Robert Mugabe moved quickly to be sworn for another six-year term as South Africa warmly endorsed his claimed victory. South African deputy president Jacob Zuma, flew to Harare late on Thursday to congratulate Mr Mugabe in person, and the two men were photographed hugging each other and giving the one-fisted amandla (power) salute of the black liberation struggle. Meanwhile, Mr Mugabe's police were using his draconian public order and security decrees to break up a meeting of the Zimbabwean Congress of Trades Unions. Once led by losing presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai, the...