As a convenience, I have catalogued all the posts on this topic to their own category, appropriately titled “Count ANY Vote”. Just scroll down a bit and look on the right hand margin for the list of categories.
And here we go….
As you may have heard, some of the Rossi supporters had a rally in support of a “Re-Vote” on the lawn in front of the capitol building yesterday.
1800 or so Rossi supporters showed up.
(Found @ The Right Society. More pics there.)
Flanked by around 200 anti-Rossi folks.
(Found @ Sound Politics. More pics there.)
(I don’t think the guy in the pic would know fascism if it clubbed him over the head and hauled him off to be interviewed by the SS)
Ms. SondraK was there too and has her own pics of the event (here and here)
Other than one Dem stepping out of the Animal Farm pen, Sen. Tim Sheldon, D-Potlatch, it was a straight partisian adventure in politics.
Some local left aren’t happy with Senator Sheldon right now. I hope their plan to ‘Shun Sheldon’ works against them and he hops the fence in the next couple years.
In other election news, the Repubs case of strange voting happenings will be heard this Friday in Chelan County, arguably the most conservative county in the state. Here’s hoping they get somewhere.
They have to get this right because Gregoire gets inaugurated today. They have ten days after today to get this heard in front of a judge who could throw out the election. Yesterday, the Dems added their names to the Secretary of State Sam Reed’s countersuit in Chelan County, so if a judge does order this, you can guarantee it is going to the state Supreme Court.
Contrary to what has been floating around, there is precedent for tossing out the election results and ordering a re-vote.
I was listening to local talk radio, KIRO 710, on either Tony Ventrella’s or Mike Webb’s show and heard the Washington State Elections Director, Nick Handy, talk about a case of a re-vote being ordered in an Adams County local election in either 1975 or 1977. Hopefully, that will get taken into account by the justices.
UPDATE: Found a link for the Adams County story. It only took fraud allegations there.
Also yesterday, King County Elections Superintendent Bill Huennekens had to admit that his office had screwed up the vote-to-voter reconciliation numbers YET AGAIN when they reported supposedly corrected number to the media.
The number still stands at around 1800 more votes than voters. But don’t worry, give King County enough time and they’ll find those folks (in the local cemetary and/or the homeless shelters, probably).
And of course, the Dems are playing this all off like the past 9 weeks haven’t happened.
Gregoire on CNN:
“Well, under Washington law, we’re at the end. The manual recount was all that our law provides. It doesn’t provide for a new election and, in fact, I have no indication whatsoever that our election officials in this state did anything wrong to the contrary. They were the best of professionalism and did their jobs well, so, I’m confident they did their job and the count is over and I will be inaugurated tomorrow.”
“In the end, after the manual recount under Washington law, the race is over, it’s been certified and now it’s time for us to move on as a state and address the very many and difficult issues that are facing our citizens”
Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown:
‘It’s time to move forward. Jobless people are struggling to pay their mortgages, students are trying to find spots in the state’s colleges, and children are losing health coverage. Those problems can’t wait.’
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In Part Semnadtsat I told you about how the Dems are already thinking about new taxes to push onto the already overtaxed citizens of Washington. It turns out that that is not all they’re looking to do.
It seems as though they think that since they now have both houses of the Legislature and the Governor’s desk (and, effectively the Supreme Court) that they should pay off some of those hard left wing special interest groups.
And some of the local left seem to agree.
Maybe, just maybe, they’ll correct their rectal-cranial impaction problems and see what happened the last time they bowed to enviro-wackos and anti-business looneys.
But I doubt it.