Republicans Investigating WA Election
It seems that the Republican party is laying the foundation for a legal challenge to the Democrat’s victory-producing recount that took the election away from Dino Rossi and gave it to Christine Gregoire.
The state Republican Party rolled out a long list of questions and accusations about the King County elections system yesterday that will likely be the foundation for contesting Democrat Christine Gregoire’s claim to the governor’s office.
Democrats called the litany a desperate attempt to keep Republican Dino Rossi in the race even after he lost the manual recount by 130 votes out of 2.8 million cast.
Rossi won the first count and the mandatory mechanical recount by 261 votes and 42 votes, respectively.
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Contrary to state law, a significant but unknown number of ballots were permanently and irrevocably altered, [Chris] Vance said. "You might have had your mark permanently filled in with a black pen," Vance said. "You might have had nothing done to it. You might have had it whited out."
He said although the inconsistency was the rule it consistently benefited Gregoire, who picked up 179 votes in King County during the hand recount.
I think that one of the problems here is that a single manual recount, produced an entirely different result from the two automated counts. Rossi won two out of three times. Gregoire won only after several hundred previously rejected ballots in King County were added into the process, and that was after the Supreme Court had ruled that a recount was a re-tallying of votes that had already been counted.
The Supreme Court less than a week later ruled that King County’s previously uncounted ballots had to be included in the recount, apparently oblivious to the fact that those two decisions contradict each other.
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