I just sent a list of 27 cases of likely double voters to the King County Prosecutor's office.
I produced the list by querying the voter registration file and absentee ballot file for cases where there were multiple people with the same name at the same address who had accepted absentee ballots. I filtered out explict cases of Jr and Sr.. I looked up my initial hits in the Intelius people search database and tossed out cases where there appeared to be a parent/child pair living at the same residence. The prosecutor and election office will be able to investigate further by examining the birthdates, signatures and other non-public voter information. I expect that some of the names on the list will simply turn out to be related individuals. But I strongly suspect that at least a dozen will be proven to be double voters.
This is in no way an exhaustive set of possible double voters, only one set of cases that are relatively easy to identify and investigate and that have a reasonable likelihood of bearing fruit.
I'm going to refrain from publishing the names unless and until they're confirmed by King County officials. Stay tuned.
UPDATE. RCW 29A.84.650
Any person who votes or attempts to vote more than once at any primary or general or special election is guilty of a gross misdemeanor, punishable to the same extent as a gross misdemeanor that is punishable under RCW 9A.20.021.Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at April 28, 2005 04:13 PM | Email This
Its easy to point fingers when it isn't you isnt it?
Like it or not the fraud accusation gets closer to reality all the time.
I read Dean Logan's transcripts, and even Tom Clancy would have been hard pressed to invent so many opportunities for fraud and conspiracy.
Facts are facts. King County screwed up.
When you want to see the cost of that mistake, look at your gas pump.
Posted by: Karl on April 28, 2005 04:38 PMLet's get to "moving on" as soon as possible. Let's also get to "moving on" with undoing the kajillion tax hikes as well as requiring performance audits with every spending unit over 5% of the total operating budget.
This is all about moving on. We've had enough of business as usual in Olympia.
Posted by: Andy on April 28, 2005 05:21 PMIt's getting close. Soon we will see Fraudoire frog marching from the capitol in hadncuffs. Following her will be Ron Simms and Dean Logan.
Posted by: VCRW on April 28, 2005 05:38 PMTucker, you've obviously never spent any time in Olympia.
Posted by: Bill on April 28, 2005 05:54 PMAlso why would they begin counting ballots in the morning rather in the evening as prescribed by law. Well, you have to know how many ballots you need make up. Washingtonians must insist upon federal intervention. We need an investigation.
Posted by: Vicki on April 28, 2005 06:00 PMWhat you would end up with is 100 agencies each eating 1%.
Posted by: Gary on April 28, 2005 06:29 PMI can partly see why they would take the blank ballots home. There were literally thousands of precincts. It would be physically impossible to deliver the ballots on sight the morning of the election before the polls opened to every polling place-- especially the outlying places like Enumclaw or Black Diamond. Logisticaly, it would make more sense to have the poll workers take them there themslves.
Now, as to why they had to take them home the Friday before, especially without any form of accountability or reconciliation, or any form of checks to make sure that the poll worker who had the ballots didn't commit fraud, that's a whole different story...
Posted by: Mike H on April 28, 2005 06:46 PMBaghdad Jim
Ted (hic) Kennedy
HillaryOUS
Michael MooreON
AlGore
Jimma Carter
Rev. Al
and the entire supporting cast at SCCC and Evergroovy
So, if I guard nuclear warheads and they need to be moved, I should just go ahead and throw them in my pickup because that's easier that calling for the appropriate equipment? Are you serious?
What do you think we have hundreds of police cruisers for? coffee shop runs? Logisitcally you have the police distribute the ballots, which ensure that they are protected in the meantime.
Posted by: Aaron on April 28, 2005 07:41 PMPudster
Posted by: Puddybud on April 28, 2005 08:37 PMSeriously, saying "Thanks" to you and the others who have contributed so much time and energy to this doesn't really convey the gratitude I feel for your efforts. In the big picture, not to support a canditate or a party, but to support, nay, to re-establish the integrity of the system that we believe in and that many of of have fought to protect.
Sincerely,
Mike
Posted by: MikeF on April 28, 2005 08:49 PMI believe Nicole Way (since she has been mentioned in the media several times by Dems) is going to get axed. Valid or not.
Linda Sanchez and Julie Moore better watch out. They are expendable for the greater good.
I really think Vicki Moore and Lisa Moore "who train the employees or the staff who were doing the verification." are going down. Ladies, I suggest you reevaluate your friends.
It could be that Carlos Webb, assistant superintendent of registration, has been eyed as a scapegoat.. or not.
Carlos Webb is under Bill Huennekens, who is under extreme pressure, rightfully so. I give Bill Huennekens a 40/60 chance of skating. If Logan skates, Huennekens could catch a freebie. That means Carlos Webb may be in deep trouble.
Its Pass The Buck mentality. The buck stops with Queen G.
If there are liberal progressives reading this, please ask yourself: What is more valuable, someone covering for you, or someone helping you prevent mistakes?
Everyone has a purpose.. even trolls.
Posted by: Splatter on April 28, 2005 09:25 PMNo offense, but that warhead arguement doesn't really work. Please read my post again. I said I understand their probable reasoning for doing it, I never said I agreed with the method they actually used. Also, having hundreds of police cruisers do it isn't really feasable. Yes, it would be nice, but you either have to divert a lot of cruisers from their assigned duties, or call in hundreds of officers on their day off-- all of whom are union. You're looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of overtime. Plus, does the county even have the shipping and receiving facilities available to load that many ballots into the cruisers that quickly?
Besides, there are a lot of other checks and balances to insure fraud isn't commited by poll-workers. One idea would be to have someone at the polling station actually check off that if worker "A" was given "X" amount of ballots in sealed plastic wrap, that they actually bring that many ballots when they arrive in the morning. All the police cruisers wouldn't make a difference if they didn't keep track of how many ballots went out and how many came back. And giving poll workers all the ballots five days before the election probably didn't help security any either.
Posted by: Mike H on April 28, 2005 09:29 PMYou know we found numerous possible double voters when we first checked out the database...
Remember these examples? These are just under the name *Wood*....
JOHN A WOOD SEATTLE 98109 Voted Absentee
JOHN A WOOD SEATTLE 98109 Voted Absentee
JULIE D WOOD SAMMAMISH 98074 Voted Absentee
JULIE D WOOD SAMMAMISH 98074 Voted Absentee
MICHAEL WOOD SEATTLE 98115 Voted at Poll
MICHAEL L WOOD SEATTLE 98115 Voted Absentee
PATRICIA A WOOD SEATTLE 98105 Voted Absentee
PATRICIA ANN WOOD SEATTLE 98105 Voted Absentee
SUSAN WOOD ISSAQUAH 98027 Voted Absentee
SUSAN GAYLE WOOD ISSAQUAH 98027 Voted Absentee
I'm hope the FBI is chasing down terrorist cells. We can take care of this mess ourselves. None I named is accused of a crime. I was only proposing a scenario.
Your information and mine is available too. Scary huh?
To find fraud all we need to do is look at the individuals who used the elections office as their "place of residence". But of course, there is no way to identify them now. Nice.
I do think Nicole Way has been set up for the fall, then there is Garth Fell..
Posted by: Splatter on April 28, 2005 10:06 PMThe comments are funny. Yes it will drive his viewership up, but we know why we go there. To have fun with Headless on her favority location.
O'Pudster. (A little Blarney tonight)
Posted by: Puddybud on April 28, 2005 10:25 PMJust some late-night food for thought.
Posted by: recently relocated on April 28, 2005 11:09 PMI agree with your analysis (WE MUST PROTECT THE QUEEN!!!) but think you've given Huennekens better odds than I would have....feeling particularly generous?
Posted by: alphabet soup on April 29, 2005 07:29 AMI don't buy it. The newspapers around here manage to get papers delivered every single morning, even to outlying areas. The election's office should be able to handle this task. That is of course, if they want to.
Posted by: Vicki on April 29, 2005 09:24 AMI can relate because I have a similar panicked reaction to the idiotic legislation and regulatory efforts being undertaken by liberals to choke the life out of Washington State. The difference is that I have righteous anger on my side at catching pukes like Danw attempting to steal my birth right, and then smirking arrogantly at being busted. It’s like catching a neighbor in your garage stealing a shovel. Gee officer, I don’t know what happened -- it just went off.
Dino Rossi is definitely going to have his work cut out for himself.