1. Will KC and its band of merry men ever regret the course they've chosen? When they know the world is watching, they release false statements, surely knowing that the truth will come out later. Or are they just too proud to release their death grip on power? Is it possible that DL, RS, CG, et al are really as dense as they appear?

Posted by: dkpcowboy on February 25, 2005 10:49 AM

2. Is it too late? The governers face was on every paper this week, hard at work on the telephone or on the beat in Olympia. She's stern-looking, conservatively dressed and apparently pro-military. Will anyone want to go through the rigamarole of a new election? Her claws are in deep.

Posted by: verdrangung on February 25, 2005 10:56 AM

3. verdrangung:

When the stuff hits the fan, the more deeply Christine is in the seat the more dearly it will cost her. What KC is doing now is flagrantly disregarding the law and every bit of good will left in anyone's heart.

Every day they try to cover it up, there are more and more people who begin to think "fraud". The people who think it later are even more bitter about it than those who thought it on Nov. 2.

What happens when John Q. Citizen of Washington State believes that KC is as fraudulent as New Jersey? Christine becomes the appointed czar of Washington in people's minds.

My bet is that when this is over, Dino Rossi will be running against someone else. Christine won't even be able to muster a majority in her own party. And the democrat who does run will be singing a different tune - maybe even turning on their own party to get the support they need.

And King County? I expect to see a Republican breakthrough. Especially if Rossi steps down once appointed by the Supreme Court.

Posted by: Jonathan Gardner on February 25, 2005 11:03 AM

4. V,
NO NOT TOO LATE! In fact to throw in the towel because the governor appears to be hard at work is just what they want us to do.

Posted by: Joe on February 25, 2005 11:03 AM

5. Joe, hence my warning in the post above. If you are correct, then they aren't dense...just expecting to wait out the storm. They just didn't have a Plan B in case the electorate stuck around and started asking questions.

No clue how to deal with the disgruntled masses.

Posted by: dkpcowboy on February 25, 2005 11:12 AM

6. If there were really a good reason for this binder to not be available, don't you think that KC elections would be saying what it was. Erik, Doc (no doubt a quack), Headless Lucy, and all of the rest of you who believe that the election went without flaw and that the R's should just get over it and admit that CG won. Where is your ability to use logic? That is the main part of an IQ test. What's yours? I bet you don't know, or it's under 80, maybe collectively.

Posted by: DWS on February 25, 2005 11:22 AM

7. This is a copy of an email I sent to Stefan yesterday.

Stefan,
Good work on the request... I presume their strategy is going to be trying to wait you out on this request. The file is already intact. It is all together, and contains no private citizen information that needs to be blacked out. So the when it's "available" response is a bit curious. Is the report in Cabo on vacation? There is no reason they wouldn't let you look at it at the counter. I would go down there and request to look at it at the counter. When they won't let you look you will have a great story for Soundpolitics and the local papers/tv should pick it up as well. You can point to the mission statement on the wall about transparent elections for your quote.

Well, look I am a fortune teller! Lets begin the great "wait out"

Posted by: Joe on February 25, 2005 11:25 AM

8. If the magical binder contains each reconciliation of the 580 polling stations when they closed, how can it not be ready to be viewed. That information should never change........

Maybe I lost my head this morning, because I don't understand this at all!

Posted by: sgmmac on February 25, 2005 11:43 AM

9. Two thoughts after reading the article:

1) Some felons claimed they didn't know they couldn't vote and they were upset.

Funny, but when a police officer pulled me over and said I exceeded the speed limit, I was a little bummed because I didn't know the speed limit. But I still got a ticket.

2) ....and they wonder why King County is the most hated county in Washington State...

Posted by: Michele on February 25, 2005 12:05 PM

10. What about going after the people that voted for dead people. There are a handful of known should-be felons out there. Any word on those cases?

Posted by: Daniel K on February 25, 2005 12:05 PM

11. verdrangung: Don't worry. Even now, x-tine is giving Dino ammo to use against her for the next race. It's very encouraging...

Posted by: Michele on February 25, 2005 12:08 PM

12. KC is taking a page from the Clinton playbook of deny and delay, run out the clock. The longer they stonewall this, the better chance they have that the stench of this fraud will fade from the minds of the sheeple. The lamestream press will do their best to bury this down the memory hole. At the very least, the longer they delay and stretch this out, the longer they have to patch up the holes and whitewash the fraud. If they release anything at all (which I am doubtful of, anytime before the next governor's election, anyway), it will be whitewashed as clean as the driven snow. And then the refrain from the lousy, cheating demorats and their friends in the media will be, "see, we told you all along, nothing to see here, move on, blah blah blah".

Posted by: Interested Observer on February 26, 2005 07:58 AM

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