How to Steal an Election -101
State Republicans asked King County for a list of all the people who voted in the last election and got a list with 3,500 less names than the number of votes that King County counted.
In all, King County tallied 899,199 votes on Nov. 2, while the preliminary list the county gave Republicans and others who had requested it credited only 895,660 people with voting.
"If they never explain this adequately, that’s a huge bombshell in this race," state GOP Chairman Chris Vance said.
Gregoire’s spokesman Morton Brilliant said Republicans were acting like children watching a batch of cookies baking, reaching in too early, then complaining that they’re still gooey.
How poetic.
While we’re on the subject of sticky fingers reaching too early, I’d like to point out a few more problems with this race.
As I noted in my previous post, Gregoire’s final margin of victory in the manual recount was 129 votes, less than half of Rossi’s original margin of victory.
Rossi won two out of three counts and Gregoire won one. Her margin of victory was also less than Rossi’s average margin for the first two counts. Rossi’s average margin of victory was 150.5 [(261+42)/2=151.5]. 129 is less than 150.5 by 15%.
Not only did Rossi win two out of three counts, his margin of victory was higher than Gregoire’s one win.
To a rational mind, Rossi would have to be the winner because he won on more counts and by a larger average margin.
But alas, our legal system is not rational and our laws are not based on science.
The law is written in such a way that if Gregoire won the manual recount by as little as one vote she would have to be declared the winner even if Rossi had a much larger margin of victory in the previous two counts.
That’s what happened in this race. Gregoire’s lead in the manual recount was 15% less than Rossi’s average lead from the first two counts, yet she was still certified as the winner.
It does not make sense that a candidate who won by a higher average margin on two counts should lose to a candidate who won by a smaller margin on one count.
It’s easy to see how an election could be corrupted when all the losing party has to do is raise enough money to pay for a manual recount and then figure out a way to come up with just enough votes to come out one vote ahead. That one vote would win them the election, even though the other candidate had won two tallies by a larger margin, as Dino Rossi did.
That one vote would also entitle them to get their money back and stick the taxpayers with the bill for the recount.
Just the fact that getting so few extra votes can win the highest office in the state and also get a refund on the cost of the recount is a HUGE incentive to pull strings where necessary to come up with those few extra votes.
For that reason and that reason alone, the Republicans are justified in taking a very close look at what happened in heavily Democratic King County.
Now I’m not saying that Gregoire and the Democrats stole the election, I’m just saying that I think it would probably be an easy thing to do in an election that was this close. The fact is, they would only have to fabricate a few votes to do it.
Just a few extra votes and with one recount you can beat a candidate who beat you twice by a larger average margin and get your money back.
It’s easy to imagine any politicians, but specifically the Democrats in this case, in the back rooms whispering to each other, "Just a few extra votes." They whisper to their loyalists in the county election department and to their friends who are judges ruling on ballot issues, "Just a few extra votes and the office, the power, and the money are all ours."
How many power-hungry politicians would not salivate in the presence of such a delicious temptation, the opportunity to flip an election for the highest office in the state with a handful of ballots, get your party’s money back and make history at the same time? I dare say there are none.
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