It's been known for a while that some number of King County's unverified provisional ballots that went into the AccuVote were cast by double voters. It turns out that the number of double voters is significantly higher than what King County originally admitted. Even now, King County is stonewalling on the production of hard evidence for the trial. The Republicans have actually had to file a motion asking Judge Bridges to order King County to comply with the discovery requests. The story is told in recent Republican court filings --
As noted earlier, Bill Huennekens acknowledged in his April 21 deposition that there were 437 more unverified provisionals that went into the AccuVote than had previously been disclosed. He also acknowledged that some of the unverified provisionals may have been from double voters.
The Republicans then subpoenaed (on April 29) any poll books pages, provisional ballot envelopes and absentee ballot envelopes from any such double voters and other illegal voters, to be produced on May 6. (See here for Subpoena, including list of presumed illegal voters)
Elections manager Colleen Kwan, who was responsible for doing the research into the unverified provisionals that went into the AccuVote and the (presumably) matching empty provisional envelopes, was deposed on May 5. Spreadsheets with information on the unverified provisionals were used as exhibits in her depositions. Her testimony and the spreadsheets indicate that there were even more double voters than previously acknowledged.
On May 10, the Republicans served King County with another subpoena, asking for hard copy documentation on the newly disclosed list of presumed double voters.
As late as May 16, King County had still not produced the hard copy evidence of any ballots cast by any but 2 of the dozens of voters who it identified as having cast more than one ballot. Meanwhile the Democrats had filed a motion to exclude such double votes (Petitioners' reponse here) on the grounds that "Petitioners lack the requisite proof".
Yesterday, the Republicans filed a motion for Judge Bridges to order King County to comply with the discovery request.
At this point, King County Elections should be handled as a criminal gang and prosecuted under the RICO act for conspiracy to commit fraud and obstruction of justice. Don Porter can become a celebrated mob lawyer, just like Bruce Cutler.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at May 19, 2005 12:58 PM | Email ThisDtone walling, denial, lying, cover ups, cooking the books, hide the ball...how can anyone believe anything KC says at this point? The betrayal of public confidence is bottomless.
Absolutely right on. Think back to the Boston Tea Party. Read the Declaration of Independence. The natives are getting restless . . . I think we all agree on that one. This needs fixed before good people start a revolt . . . which would not be pretty.
Posted by: lksimstrailgrammy on May 19, 2005 02:06 PMMy guess is that;
1. Dean Logan will be long gone (one way or the other, and
2. There will literally be hundreds of thousands of eyes watching every move.
It would be nice if the legislature had had the courage to purge the voter rolls as well!
Posted by: alphabet soup on May 19, 2005 02:08 PMROFLMAO!
Posted by: Dogbert on May 19, 2005 02:38 PMShown character, huh? Like when she promised not to raise taxes, then the first thing she does is raise them?
She's shown a lot of class and character... just none of it has been any good.
Posted by: Mike H on May 19, 2005 02:41 PMLike your name--lots of fantasy, but no real truth.
Posted by: Shannon on May 19, 2005 03:05 PMThere is a segment in our country that would look up to anyone who is driving a Cadillac Escalade regardless of how they came to acquire it.
Funny isn't it that segment of our population who admires ‘ill gotten gains’ is also a constituency that the Democrats rely on to stay in office.
In Little Tooth Fairy's world the Pretender would be looked up to as one who embodies class and character.... ... .. .don't park your car in Little Tooth Fairy's neighborhood after dark.
"Absolutely right on. Think back to the Boston Tea Party. Read the Declaration of Independence. The natives are getting restless . . . I think we all agree on that one. This needs fixed before good people start a revolt . . . which would not be pretty."
Should we start by dumping untaxed gasoline into Elliot Bay? (that's only a JOKE, EPA) or something more local and less damaging to the environment --like boxes of roast coffee (remember the "Dime on your espresso for Daycare") from Starbucks?
The card should read something to the effect of, "Hi. I just wanted you to know that because of ______________, and because of me being a civilized citizen (as opposed to one of the the hooligans on the left), I'm sending this protest note rather than nailing you with a cream pie.
"You'll be happy to note that this card represents a donation to the Rossi campaign, and everyone that I can influence will be voting for Mr. Rossi this fall."
I'd wager big money that they'd come up with a count for those cards without any problem...not accurately, mind you, but a count just the same...
Posted by: scott158 on May 19, 2005 04:32 PMThey don't know what to do! They are frozen!
No one has EVER taken it this far!....In the past - they've been able to spin away any questions about election procedures and problems. No one had ever dared to call them on their flakey practices! Their whole world is crashing down around them.
Anything they submit - can and MUST be used against them.....And they can't hide it very much longer...
I would hate to be Ron Sims, Dean Logan, Bill Huennekens, etal....right now and in the very near future.....
Posted by: Deborah on May 19, 2005 08:43 PM
I would disagree with you on Clinton. While Clinton did do something morally wrong, it wasn't directly connected to how he ran the country. In other words, he didn't betray the people. I think people were generally happy with what was happening with the country under his command.
On the contrary, we are not happy with how this state is being ran (tax more/spend more), how KC ran their election (what election?), and the blantant backstabbing the leaders of the Dems are perpetrating (gas tax). We have been betrayed.
Posted by: Shannon on May 20, 2005 09:56 AMClinton broke the law. He committed perjury in the Paula Jones civil suit and then later tried to obstruct justice with a cover-up.
He adamantly continued to support his false testimony and conspired with others to go along with his story. That is until Monica cut an immunity deal, the infamous dress appeared and they drew his blood for a DNA test. At that point, they had to start spinning like crazy and talking about "legal accuracy". We even had to bomb Iraq a few times as a distractuion.
The focus on sex and his "trying to protect his family" was a brilliant tactic by the democrat PR machine and served as a distraction during his trial. Hillary even had to try and look surprised, hurt and humilated. He dodged conviction by the skin of his teeth and still received quite a bit of disciplinary action.
I agree with what you are saying. My only point is that what is happening in Washington State cannot be compared to what happened with Clinton. Gregoire and the rest of the Dem leaders aren't that likeable (as Clinton was) and I don't believe the people of the state are going to be as forgiving this time around.
Posted by: Shannon on May 20, 2005 12:13 PMThat tells you something there.
Posted by: DeadManVoting (aka Iguana) on May 20, 2005 01:15 PM