Sound Politics: The Essence of the Huennekens Testimony

May 24, 2005

The Essence of the Huennekens Testimony

Bill Huennekens 6 hours on the witness stand is best summarized in this priceless 20-second exchange captured in this KING 5 TV report [at 1:00]

Maguire: Does King County know the true number of absentee ballots that were returned for the November 2004 general election?
Huennekens: We physically have them. What an exact number is... No, I don't know we have an exact number of absentee ballots returned.

Be sure to watch the video. The written word cannot begin to convey the extent to which his voice and face fall apart as he speaks.

Huennekens was required by state law to have counted the number of absentee ballots received.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at May 24, 2005 11:13 PM | Email This

Comments

1. Whoa! Hang on there a second, pard...what's this go to do with LAW???? We're talkin' 'bout King County ya know...

Stephan...I know that you don't miss much...did you catch the hip-deep irony of this stuff???

On the one hand, dems/left/KCE's/HA go on and on about not holding them accountable for the errors/fraud in King County. Yet at the same time, they want to claim that felon voters would reflexively vote for the nominal head of the Rep party...the home of law and order...above the catch-and-release former AG.

This is positively dripping with irony.

I suppose that, as the presumptive home of sexual minorities, the dems would include masochists...but surely that is not a chief defining characteristic of the dems, is it?

I'm not sure I really want an answer to the question, but you see my point.

With endemic cognitive dissonance running rampant on the left, it’s no wonder the right often presumes that a significant percentage of the left is self-medicated with prescription or recreation meds. SOMETHING lets ‘em sleep at night, and it isn’t integrity.

Posted by: scott158 on May 25, 2005 12:27 AM

2. Book him, Dano...

Posted by: Pseudotsuga on May 25, 2005 12:42 AM

3. Didn't see any of this earlier today. Just watched the video of Huennekens. Oh my goodness--- that was pathetic!

Posted by: Michele on May 25, 2005 12:42 AM

4. You think his face fell apart while we was speaking?

Seems to me he started the day with a dislocated face, missing memory, and general confusion about why it is that he was actually being questioned about a job that he thought he didn't really have to perform.

Anyway, papa Sims told him he wouldn't get into any trouble for stuffing those ballots ....

Posted by: DeadManVoting (aka Iguana) on May 25, 2005 01:05 AM

5. ...and again...

With apologies to Agatha Christie, this appears more and more like “Fraud on the Gregoire Express.” Dispersed responsibility, and difficulty to know upon which of the merry pranksters to pin appropriate blame.

Posted by: scott158 on May 25, 2005 02:00 AM

6. Watching Huennekens squirm and keep saying, "well not exactly", reminding me of the commercial: "Well there's Hertz and there is not exactly"! Perhaps he is on the way to a new career!

Posted by: Robert-in-Tacoma on May 25, 2005 07:15 AM

7. Heunnekens seems to argue that:

“even though I can't remember for sure what happened cause I forget, mistakes were everywhere in the process, and because they were mistakes – they can’t be crimes; therefore you can take my word that although I’m not inept, I’m not criminal, but I don’t quite recall for sure. After all, the polling places were busy because it was voting day, and a busy polling place is prone to mistakes – but not crimes. You know, I’m only the King County elections Supervisor not an elections worker, so I’m not sure how the voting process works – but believe me – I'm no criminal.

What do you think, sound good?
Honestly, this is "dog ate my homework" type stuff.
Liberals will say anything because they will believe anything so long as no facts are involved.

Posted by: Amused by liberal gall on May 25, 2005 08:08 AM

8. I can't believe this is the same guy we saw taping a television news spot during the machine recount (where we observed). He was standing about 5 feet from us, so we heard and saw every word. That guy was confident, all-knowing, poised, and somewhat arrogant. The spreadsheet guru must have told him "they" were on solid ground and it would be over soon. He was feeling good . . . "that woman" would win, and Comrade Sims would reward him for his good work.

Well, he looks a bit different now. (Maybe Stefan can find an archived taping from way back then and post it for comparison.) The truth is out. He has been weighed in the balances and found wanting!

Posted by: lksimstrailgrammy on May 25, 2005 08:36 AM