Alternate Title: The Never Ending Story
Today is the day that the Washington State Republicans are rumored to be filing their lawsuit contesting the certification of Democrat Christine Gregoire as Governor.
The Republican court challenge to Christine Gregoire’s election as governor, expected to be filed today, will center on mishandled provisional ballots in King County and lingering questions about why the county shows more votes counted than people voting on Nov. 2.
The lawsuit also will likely include allegations of votes by dead people and felons, and multiple votes by the same voter. But those issues, while garnering much attention among Rossi supporters in recent days, will be secondary.
And we’ll see how this goes. If there are any developments or decisions handed down today, I should be able to get them to you this afternoon after I wake up for work.
In other legal developments, two citizens beat the Repubs to the punch, filing seperate, and somewhat odd suits yesterday with the state Supreme Court.
Daniel P. Stevens of Fall City sent the court a one-page notice saying he was contesting the election because the margin of victory is within the election’s margin of error, “to the point that error must be assumed as a certainty.”
Arthur Coday Jr. of Shoreline filed an 11-page brief arguing that the hand recount was fatally flawed for several reasons and asking the high court to inaugurate Rossi as governor.
While the article doesn’t come out and say it, Mr Coday’s suit alleges that the state should not take money from political parties to do recounts, due to its nature of coming from special interest groups.
Neither of these men are aligned, in any way that can be seen, with the Republican Party of either King County (where they both live) or with the State of Washington.
Mr. Stevens filed the $250 necessary for filing the lawsuit and gave press interviews yesterday evening. Mr. Corday did neither of those things and since the state hasn’t received his money, his suit is not yet official.
State GOP Chairman, Chris Vance, said that the two filings prove there’s grass-roots support for a new governor’s election.
Hopefully, neither of these two suits will get in the way of the official Republican suit.
From Sound Politics comes the revalation that two registered sex offenders voted in King County.
Remember, most sex offenders are felons and are not allowed to vote unless their voting rights have been reinstated. While Sharkansky does not release the offender’s names, he can find no evidence that said rights have, in fact, been reinstated.
You may also remember from last week that there were approximately 8500 more votes than registered voters. Well, just over 3500 of the were in King County alone.
Last week, when this allegation was brought to light, King County Election Director Dean Logan said that a full, updated list is expected to be complete by the end of next week.
Today is that end of that week and the 3500 vote gap is still present.
Soooo, Logan now says that all election numbers are historically mismatching and that there is nothing odd about this discrepancy.
Sadly for Mr. logan, with a 129 vote difference, playing government style horeshoes and handgrenades with vote tallys is not acceptable.
Hopefully, the state Supreme Court will follow this line of logic as well.
And now is the time we need good, solid and NEW governance.
Gregoire has not even been sworn in and the Dems are already talking NEW TAXES.