January 31, 2005
Learn from Iraq
Bob Williams makes a couple of interesting observations about the Iraqi elections:
1. All of Iraq's voters were registered in 45 days.
2. Registered voters had to show their registration cards and photo ID to vote.
First time's a charm, or can Washington election officials learn something here?
Posted by Marsha Richards at January 31, 2005
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1. Don't Mexicans have a voter ID, too?
2. I liked the dye stained fingers too to prevent multiple votes. I am sure we could have caught a few Moonbat Votes here in WA had we dye stained every voters finger.
Of course there's still the whole absentee/ provisional mess, but the Iraqis did better than WA there as well.
3. I agree with Jeff B. Dye the fingers. Then we can all dance around the Dem's MSM network news shows and flash the ink. The ink that ended GreGore's political career, (well actually it was her pride, arrogance, and smugness did her in, but it would still be fun to do that)
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4. Amazingly, Christine Gregoire was not able to gain any additional votes in the Iraq election!
5. What?? Photo ID to vote?? Why, that's just madness!! Next thing you know, we'll be required to live at a physical address where we vote, have a pulse, etc....oh wait....
Many thanks to the Iraqis, who are helping expose Sims' vote fraud machine by their (and Sam Reed's) reluctance to pass meaningful election reforms.
The Iraqis can pull together a better election model than we can despite being terrorist central. Amazing! The meaningless "election reforms" espoused by Sam Reed and others still wouldn't give us an election process as fair as the Iraqis.
Of course, soon they will face the insidious foe we're stuck with - career politicians....
6. I'm in favor of the ink-stained finger as well! It's the same flavor as the old 'I Voted' stickers, which for some reason were discontinued. I was a poll observer, and quite a few people requested these stickers on election day.
As it is, I'll still be giving Christine Gregoire, Ron Sims, Dean Logan, and all of King County (in which I live) the finger.
7. Oh, but Rick you're wrong--They DID find some more King County ballots from precinct 1823, no less, in one of the sleeves of the accuvote machines in Mosul. Amazingly, they were ALL for x-tine!
8. This was the first election I ever voted in (king co). I thought it was strange that they required no proof of identification whatsoever to let me vote. I just walked in, stated my name, and they handed me a ballot after checking that the name I gave was on the list for that precinct.
9. We should be humbled by the courage shown by the individual Iraqis in facing down the barbarians wishing to deny them the right to vote. Despite sniper attacks, car bombings, kidnappings, beheadings, etc., etc., the Iraqis went to the polling places and voted. And were indelibly marked in the process, making retribution even easier for the torturers and beheaders that Kennedy and Kerry would allow to take over Iraq.
Certainly makes the whining cries of Democrats that identification at the polls is too scary for Americans rather pathetic and embarrassing, doesn't it?
10. Did anyone else hear Baghdad Jim McDermott call the Iraqi elections a joke, and say that Iraqis should well be skeptical of elections run by Americans because of what happened in Florida?! Hello??
Well, Jim, I actually agree with you on this one. Considering the incompetence and irregularities that went on in the Banana Republic of King County, Iraqis should well be skeptical of American run elections! Fortunately for the Iraqis, however, the elections were run by Iraqis, not Americans. It's really rather sad to think that the Iraqis and the Ukrainians have more respect for the sanctity of the electoral process than Gregoire/Berend/Sims et al.
11. I was amazed watching the news and watching Iraqi voters showing photo identifications and then having to dip their fingers. I have friends who won't vote unless they can do it absentee. I am ready for a full registration of this state and then have everyone show photo id and then we all dip out fingers.
12. There might still be a problem here in Washington if they used the ink-stained finger to show that one had already voted. There would probably be a lot of Democrats running around with missing fingers.
13. Hmmm...
At least in the Iraqi system, the person responsible for COUNTING the votes isn't the head of the election organization for one of the candidates *cough* Ken Blackwell *cough*..
Of course, in 2000, when Kathrine Harris..the leader of the Bush Relection commitee...who also happened to be Secretary of State claimed she would "give Florida to Bush on a plate". That was politics as usual? Of course, that was fair, and impartial.
Sam Reed is as close to non-partisan as you can get. He sticks to the facts, he doesn't pick sides, and he seems absolutely fair. Mr. Reed was the ONE Republican I could bring myself to vote for. I trusted him during the first two recounts, even when the result was not favorable. I trust him again on the third, legal recount.
If this needs to go to the courts (like Florida/2000) so be it. This is WHY our system of government works. We have a process, its in the constitution, let the system work.
If there is a LEGAL reason for a challenge (which requires a LEGAL burden of proof, not fascist talk radio inflamatory BS), then let it go forth. Just..please FIX the problems first, before wasting time and money on another revote.
14. M,
If we wait for all the problems to be fixed, it'll never happen. Most Dem's in Olympia think there is no problem anyway, witness comments like "the most accurate vote count in state history" and "The election process is working exactly as it should".
There will be plenty of legal reasons for a revote soon, when the judge rules on all the "bs" as you call it.
If Iraq, Afganistan and Ukraine can run an election, why can't we? We are becoming the third world of election politics.