Dean Logan will be presenting his election report to the King County Council on Monday, Feb. 14, 9:30 a.m., 10th Floor, King County Courthouse, 3rd and James.
Predictions: Julia Patterson, Dwight Pelz and Larry Phillips will praise Dean Logan for conducting the most accurate election in human history and assert that it had an accuracy rate that the nuclear power industry would envy.
David Irons, Kathy Lambert and Steve Hammond, on the other hand, will be loaded for bear.
A bunch of lefty bloggers and journalists will later defend the nuclear power industry remark by favorably comparing King County Elections with Chernobyl.
I will attend the Council meeting. I don't believe there's a public comment period, so I'll smile quietly to myself as I take notes for later posting. Those of you who prefer to watch and/or blog in your pajamas should be able to watch the meeting on KCTV.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at February 13, 2005 10:52 PM | Email ThisYou DO realize that your mere presence will cause fear and trembling among the Democrats......don't you? (snicker...I would love to be there to see them sweat...)
Why the constant televised *excuse gymastics* from Logan, Sims and Reed, the promise of *election reform* brochures from Geoff Simpson and Pat Sullivan and others from the *D* side of the State legislature over the past 2 weeks - if the November election was so darn stellar? Why are all of the county, state and election talking-heads taking turns explaining away the problems.....when they insist there were no problems?
Are they aware of how much attention they have brought to the election disaster...just by trying to excuse it?
I'll be watching on KCTV..
Well, at least, have you been litter trained in the past few days?
Posted by: DeadManVoting (aka Iguana) on February 13, 2005 11:47 PM
Next time Sims runs for something, someone outta make some funny signs or stickers (for Ron to see) regarding this whole "good house training" stuff. He's a character!
Posted by: flexnfx on February 13, 2005 11:54 PM:-)
Posted by: megs on February 14, 2005 08:16 AM* Nuclear power and honest elections are both attainable goals which are attained without too much difficulty throughout most of the civilized world. Potential pitfalls are well-known, well-documented and generally avoided by responsible adults.
* Corrupt, dictatorial governments with little regard for the people whom they govern (e.g. USSR, Puget SSR), however, manage to implement "worst practices" (graphite moderators in the reactors, no containment bubble, voting by mail, "honor system" voter registration, automatic certification of irreconcilable resuts, etc, etc, etc) to screw what should be an unscrewable pooch.
Posted by: TB on February 14, 2005 08:23 AMgosh, never heard that one before.
Posted by: kristen on February 14, 2005 09:37 AMOopss .. they'll probably take it out once they realize that employed people can now go to their idiotic meetings and criticize them.
Posted by: DeadManVoting (aka Iguana) on February 14, 2005 09:58 AMCouncilman Gosset ask him if as the head of Dunn's Greek system in college, if Dunn had known of a sor. or frat that excluded blacks, would Dunn be comfortable bringing it up publicly for discussion to persuade the group to change policy?
Reagan said he'd be very comfortable doing that. My question is------
Did Mr. Gossett support Christine Gregoire for gov?
Posted by: Michele S on February 14, 2005 10:05 AM- Skyrocketing school insurance and litigation costs
- Tireless support of misunderstood crackheads
- Dynamic manipulation of the MSM for non-constructive ends
That was a cheap political shot by PVR. Apparently he got corced at the last moment to go up there, wonder what blackmail they have on him...
Posted by: mogura on February 14, 2005 10:06 AMGreat analogy, and another similarity is that even though nuclear power is thr safest, cheapest, cleanest, highest energy density form of power, Democrats don't like it. Democrats don't like clean elections even though we can easily create reforms that would provide clean elections.
Most leftists are just plain anti-technology and anti-progress. They'd like to see us return to the days of the caveman, wearing loin cloths and staying out of any kind of trouble that might "pollute" the earth or disturb the annointed rulers like Sims.
I'm assuming you are a Gore apologist, meaning you believe that the R's stole the election from Gore.
Are you saying then that Gore and Rossi are in the same camp? Did you just admit that you believe the election was stolen from Rossi?
Posted by: Jonathan Gardner on February 14, 2005 10:15 AMAs superior court justice just ruled in Constantine vs. Yousefian, public officials are now legally protected to say whatever they wish and call it 'facts' regardless of accuracy.
Posted by: mogura on February 14, 2005 10:23 AMGus - Is that "good house training" protocol?
Posted by: flexnfx on February 14, 2005 10:26 AMNumbers will not Lie!!!
Posted by: Chris on February 14, 2005 10:26 AMJB you are sooooo right, this is "sickening sweet".... I want some answers, not excuses, or twisted truth's...
Posted by: Chris on February 14, 2005 11:15 AMIs it just me or is he saying all the problems were caused because the KC elections office was not prepared for huge voter turnout (due to new standards being implemented) in 2004 AFTER they (KC) did a grat job by changing the systems ahead of time and under budget?
Isn't that a contradiction? We got done with changes ahead of schedule but we were not done which is why we had problems?
Posted by: Whidbey Teacher on February 14, 2005 11:28 AMNov 2005, evict King Ron.
Posted by: chardonnay on February 14, 2005 11:40 AMYet again another waste of taxpayer time and money. That report could have been put into record in a 5 second vote, then they could have spent the time asking questions instead.
Posted by: mogura on February 14, 2005 12:16 PMROTFLMAO!
Posted by: John on February 14, 2005 12:20 PMIs she a Therapist in REAL LIFE????
Posted by: Chris on February 14, 2005 12:51 PMYes Mark, good meds....
Posted by: Chris on February 14, 2005 12:55 PMAfter all the talk, the numbers still do not add up, provisionals,348 verses 252. the 900 found votes, 735 not counted, 566 were okayed? Of the 31000, 28000 are validated? I have the feeling that all the numbers will never be clear, and all comparisons are not valid. Do not reconcile votes on a precint by precint basis. but throw them all in a hopper.
The only clear notion, is that there is a lot of wiggle room, which does allow for fraud, no matter from where it comes, organized or not. And it seems all the democrats are in favor of continuing in that vein.
Balanced and honest my foot! Total BS
Posted by: cindy on February 14, 2005 12:55 PMNow I know why I only go into Seattle when forced to...........
Posted by: Scott in Carnation on February 14, 2005 12:55 PMTypical liberal feel good group grope.
The Repubs. didn't show me much either.
Posted by: Norm on February 14, 2005 01:00 PMWho elects these people? Is it a requirement that they have a frontal lobotomy before taking the oath of office?
Posted by: SnoCo Voter on February 14, 2005 01:01 PMThe bottom-line(s) will be many. But one major one will be the Precindt pollbook reconciliations that were signed by the pollworkers election night accounting for and attesting to all ballots received. They were REQUIRED to reconcile these pollbooks and sign. All ballots received accounted for. All ballots issued by the pollworkers accounted for. Plenty of neglect here too.
If Logan was squirming under weak questioning by Council Members, just think what he will look like while be questioned by big-time attorneys!!
This was indeed a "Beauty Contest" as opposed to the "Election Contest"(which is what really matters).
Posted by: Mr. Cynical on February 14, 2005 01:15 PMThis Patterson woman was looped! I was rolling when I read the others comments on her....It's nice to know, this wasn't just my observation!
And she took the opportunity to imply that this entire questioning process of Logan was born out of a sour-grapes partisanship of the Republicans! Every time she was called on to speak - she made this implication - then went on to a Rodney King mantra of "can we all just get along"? She completely ignores the fact that it is a bi-partisan majority of citizens who share the concern over our botched election system!.....I cannot believe she is in a position of authority. (The more I get to see our local and state government officials in action - the
more I shake my head in horror!)
And the spin spewing from Logan over numbers, processes, mailings! It made me sick. How can this man sleep at night?
Anyway - The entire show was laughable and embarrassing......That seems to be how the rest of our state is percieved as well....sigh...
Patterson needs to see her MD. I would swear that she looks just like my mum in law when she has taken too many percocets....That woman is scary....And to keep harping about the "Unhappy" republicans and that she knows exactly how they felt back in 2000. Jeeessshhhh... And the Grandma Head Rolling episode, you would think she was talking to 2 year olds, the way she scolded Hammond.
Hammond wanted to ask more tough questions, and Lambert tried in her "nice" way, but I think it was orchestrated so that we (TV veiwers) didnt get to witness the Good Stuff....
The More I See, the more my nose tells me there is a dead fish somewhere.....
Posted by: Chris on February 14, 2005 02:34 PMSo much for the clean election, Sims.
Posted by: goop on February 14, 2005 07:24 PM