In new Washington State Gubernatorial Election developments, the Repubs think they have found the smoking gun.
KIRO7 News – State Republican Party leaders say they’ve found 8,400 more ballots cast than the number of voters registered in the state’s five largest counties.
State GOP Chairman Chris Vance says the mismatching numbers in King, Pierce, Snohomish, Clark and Kitsap are troubling.
Republicans are mulling a possible legal challenge to the election, and Vance says discrepancies like the ones they found so far are clear indications that things went wrong.
8400 is a large number, yes it is.
But is it enough for a judge to toss out the results of the last recount?
Sadly, I do not believe so, unless they find someone with a truly open mind.
When the R’s take this to court, they’re going to have D lawyers playing every single excuse they can think of for the discrepancy, from the plausible “domestic violence victims who have requested confidentiality so their names will never appear on a voter list” to the insipid “aliens took one of the voter registration files”.
And like I promised, if they R’s succeed in find an open minded judge who is willing to toss out an election and let the Lt. Governor sit in the big chair while we sort this out, I will be the first to say I was wrong, right before your very eyes.
But one thing I will not do is link to the poorly named “revote” site.
How about “NewVote” or “FairVote” or something that doesn’t sound like we’re sore losers asking for a ‘do over’. Is that too much to ask for, huh?
Another dent in the Dems ‘let’s quit counting now’ armor is this, from Sound Politics,
Intrepid SoundPolitics reader Michael Nervik pulled published death notices from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for August 25th, 2004, then cross-checked the results with the King County voter database. Out of 37 names he found 4 of these that seem to have had an absentee ballot sent in for the November election. He found 4 other identical names from the obituary that voted at the polls, and/or in a different city in King county, that we haven’t included here.
In trivial news, after Gregoire was certified as Governor elect, a woman wanted a refund for the tickets she bought for the Inaugural Ball.
The powers that be, of course, said no.
“We had one lady who wanted her money back. She liked Rossi,” Neuhauser said. But the committee has not given refunds in 150 years, and is not going to start this year, he said.