Dean Logan, in his deposition, finally gives credit where credit is due. p. 32
Q Okay. So you use signatures from poll books to credit individuals with voting?That is of course the correct explanation of the central importance of crediting, and a refreshing change from planted misinformational news articles ("It has nothing to do with the ballot-counting. It's a separate process") and the "2004 Elections Report Report [sic]"A To credit the individuals whose names are listed in the poll book with voting, yes.
Q And do you do that in part to use in the -- when determining whether a provisional ballot should be counted?
A That's the manner in which we verify that the provisional voter did not also cast another ballot at their regular poll site, yes.
Q When is the crediting process done?
A That begins, again, during the Wednesday through Friday after the election and continues until completed.
Q Is it completed prior to certification?
A Yes.
Crediting voters for voting is not designed to determine if voter fraud occurred, but rather a process to ensure voter registration lists are updated and current, to assist in administering and managing elections (i.e.; merging voter registration update information, updating absentee ballot requests, etc.) and to be available for use by political organizations for tracking voter participation.
In addition to Logan, Logan's deposition indicates that the people coordinating their spin were Nick Handy, the elections director for the SecState, the auditors of Pierce, Snohomish, Clark and Kitsap counties, and Janine Joly of the King County Prosecutor's office.
Of course, voters are "credited" at the time their regular polling place ballots are issued or at the time their absentee or provisional ballots are verified and accepted as valid. The law calls it a "credit" for voting. It's an essential part of preventing the casting of more than one ballot. It is an indispensable part of determining how many legitimate ballots were cast, so the number counted can be compared to the number cast -- thereby showing whether all legitimate ballots were counted, and counted only once.
Crediting voters and reconciling the number of legitimate ballots cast with the number of ballots counted are all part of the canvassing process.
The spinners don't know what it means to "credit" a voter with having voted -- or don't want to admit what it means.
In their ignorance and overweening belief that they could spin their way out of a mess, they used "crediting" to refer to an entirely different process -- (1)recording in the voter registration database the poll book credits (absentee and provisional credits should have been entered in that database simultaneously with acceptance of the ballots as valid), and (2)then producing a list of registered voters which showed their recent voting history.
Of course the list may contain errors, but when there is a discrepancy of 3500+ in the initial list and 2200+ in the second list, there is obvious reason to believe that more ballots were sent through the tabulation process than there were eligible voters who cast those ballots.
Now that the source documents have been examined, the discrepancy turns out to be real. There really were more ballots counted than there were legitimate ballots cast.
It's too bad they didn't coordinate their efforts in trying to resolve the problem created by Logan's gang. It seems their natural instincts led them to try to spin their way out of the mess.
I would have expected more from Handy, but then I don't know which party he prefers.
Posted by: Micajah on April 29, 2005 03:14 PMWell, that’s interesting. Where are the trolls? You know, the ones who interpret each successive nail in the coffin on Logan’s credibility as being “nothing.”
This type of thing has to send tremors of loathing and dread through the “excuse anything” types and those with titles and/or documented activities that can eventuate in holding them personally accountability for violations of law. They’ve been whistling through the graveyard all this time, blissfully clueless that this is precisely where the careers of the rogue’s gallery of KCEs officials will end up.
Day 30 of the Gregoire political death watch. As she runs around the state spinning her giveaway to the union bosses, $8 billion tax on the poor, rollback of the will of the people and election theft, the wheels of justice grind ever so slowly on her heels.
Her minions in King County election theft bravely soldier on and tow the Democrat line even in the face of devestating under oath testimony revealing the depth of fraud committed on the people of Washington State.
Gregoire was unable to be reached for coherent comment. She was heard mumbling her talking points in run-on sentences.
Gregoire: "It was a model election that any bank would be proud of...er uh... we did it for the children....um uh... I am coimng back here the governor of the state because John Kerry bought it for me and I made the people pay for it"
The trolls will be by shortly to mention Delay, Florida and Ohio. They WON'T be by to comment on Logan's deposition.
Posted by: Danny on April 29, 2005 03:58 PM