The Binary Circumstance

Sound Politics has been writing in more specific detail about the discrepancies in the King County manual recount. 

In this post he uses Precinct 3301 to illustrate how some ballots had a way of disappearing while others mysteriously appeared in King County during the manual recount.

He first pointed out here that King County’s list of the people who voted had less names than the number of ballots they tallied.

In this post, he quotes from the Seattle Times which credited him with uncovering the imbalance in King County’s vote count.

Another post explains that the 3,539 vote discrepancy in King County’s voting records is a net discrepancy:

It was last reported that there were 3,539 more ballots counted in King County than voters who cast them. The discrepancy is actually much larger.

The 3,539 is only the net. This comes from having roughly 1,500 more voters than counted ballots in some precincts, and about 5,000 more ballots than known voters in other precincts.

That’s about a 6,500 vote discrepancy!

Sound Politics is doing a great job of covering this fiasco.  Here’s the link to their postings on Washington’s 2004 Governor’s race.

Thanks to Julie Leung for telling me about this site.

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