I caught her closing argument on the John Carlson show. When she began, I was slightly worried. It seemed she was making strong points over and over again.

Fortunately, I listened to Korrell's close online via your posted link. The difference between the two is day and night. Korrell was presenting specific evidence to show that Rossi won (proportional deduction). He had depositions from election workers testifying to misconduct and negligence. Durkan had verbal tears.

Case and point being that she was running on fumes. Emotion doesn't win trials. Probably the most interesting part was Korrell's rebuttal at the end during which he blew the few statistics she tried to use out of the water.

This is why my hope for the correct verdict has soared today, because the Judge KNOWS if he does not, it is biz as usual in King County, he cannot allow this and he knows it. Dean Logan's indifference on the stand will be the reason, IMHO, but the Judge will not say that of course.

Posted earlier:

The more I think about it, there is NO WAY the judge can let this election stand, and I believe he knows it. If he does not overturn the election, King Cnty will just breathe a sigh of relief and say: "wow, we dodged a bullet, gotta be more careful next time, do a better job of cheating guys".

The judge's dilemma is to craft the judgment such that the supremos cannot overturn his decision. Right now it is 70% chance of overturning the results IMHO. Hope I'm right.

The camera showed Judge Bridges expressions during her long winded and droning blather....I thought he would soon begin banging his head on his desk in pain and fatigue! He only perked up when she lyingly used the words "Finally" and "In conclusion" ! But then he - like us - were even more perturbed when she purposely ignored the meanings of those words and continued droning on and on....

She lost the Judge and any points she was trying to make in her closing argument!

Gotta say I agree with her there -- if she means the "barn" in question is the credibility of our elections. If she means the particular result of this particular election, then let it burn!

"Those mistakes should be corrected by this court."

Those "mistakes" should have been documented and corrected by the people who made them -- as required by law. If they had, the court wouldn't have to do it for them.

I can't see Judge Bridges being moved by this slop.

Since then though the Republicans have done an uncharacteristically good job of showing how important the process is to ensuring that only the legal votes are counted. That process is not there just to ensure that the every last ballot is counted, but it is also to detect fraud when it happens and thus prevent it in the first place. I believe Judge Bridges understands that well and knows that if he lets this election stand it will be open season on ballot stuffing. I'm confident about tomorrow.

To all the people who took the time away from their family to go vote, the Democrats and MSM are saying it's just to much bother for KC to follow the rules. Typical attitude of a monopoly.

If you think liberal bias in the MSM and academia is bad, you should see what we suffer with in our state bureaucracy! (And city -- in Olynpia.)

Oh. So you noticed that, too...

Seriously, this is just an awful closing argument. It's no wonder the left relies so much on activist judges making law (and activist vote-counters making ballots!) because they sure aren't winning anyone over on the merits of their case!

Democrats love to play the victim card and that was apparent in her remarks about Nicole Way. Those evil Republicans were so mean to her. Afterall she was just trying to do her job and they had the audacity to point out her mistakes and call her on them. Shame Shame Shame. They announced to the world that she is a liar and a cheat. She was publically embarassed and shamed by those evil Republicans, all because she was just doing the best she could. The fact that the best she could was exactly the wrong thing to do is irrelevant in her world I guess.

Losers prolong divide

If the state election for governor were reversed and a Republican had won instead of a Democrat, none of this would be happening. When did we become a Republican country? When did the Democrats stop fighting for what is rightfully theirs?

How disgusting is all of this?

(I omitted the writer name and city because IMHO, crediting this insanity to a person verges on defamation.

Did the Columbian publish this liberal rant to prove a point? Maybe that ignorance breeds arrogance?)

I just love the following line:
"When did we become a Republican country? When did the Democrats stop fighting for what is rightfully theirs?"

I would respond that currently the Republicans have majoritys in the US House and Senate. The President is Republican. 28 of the nations Governors are Republican, with 22 being Democrat. My link for where I found the stats on Governors is below. I assume that the other stuff I've listed is self-explanitory...but maybe not to the writher you quoted.

All that said, when does anything "rightfully belong" to any political party?

http://www.nga.org/governors/1,1169,C_TRIVIA%5ED_2163,00.html

Mark

"This case has had benefits your honor, and I'll be the first to admit it. It's good for the public to see and hold the government accountable. But it's also wreaked damage and havoc on people. It's taken a great toll on many innocent people. It's placed a huge burden on election officials throughout the state and the taxpayers and it will have a longstanding impact on the public trust and confidence in our elections systems unless this court addresses those issues in its decision."

It is the job of the employees of King County Election to count ballots, reconcile them, and to do so properly. I have no sympathy whatsoever, and I don't think Judge Bridges will either that these "innocent" people have had the burden of their work being inspected. In the private sector, much of our work goes unnoticed, but it always gets inspected. And we are held accountable for our results. This is not considered a burden, this is why we call it "work." I can understand that a Democrat would think it was an extra burden to have their work scrutinized, but this kind of insinuation did not impress Bridges at all.

And, I'm sure the taxpayers of this state are quite fine with the extra time it has taken to make sure we have a fair process for assuring us the correct result in our highest elected office. Polls show that the majority don't trust to the result, and so it a stands to reason they are fine with the lengthy protest process. Again, an arrogant statment on the part of Durkan.

Perhaps the biggest reason for the Judge to be unimpressed by this statement though is that it comes from a lawyer who stands to make more money trying this case, the longer it goes on. It's one thing that the employees of KC Elections were "burdened" by having their work inspected, but it is no burden at all for Durkan to have tried this case, this is what she does to make a living and so it comes across as completely disingenous and arrogant for her to speak on behalf of yet another victim class.

But that's what Democrats do. Glorify perceived victimization for personal and political benefit.

http://usconservatives.about.com/library/blstatelegis.htm

Mark

When they dedcided that cheating would be more profitable.

You should change your name to Mr. Meansprited. That was one of the most rude and uncalled for diatribes I have read in this ordeal.

Perhaps a wee bit "aggressive"??

In reference to Jenny Durkan, a piece in the Olympian today said she was an overachieving child of her fathers for going to court after his death. Her logic that the Judge should rule in the democrats favor because election people work hard is absolutely insane. She is probably just passionate about it, since she is close to Gregoire. Her closing was emotional and based on feelings, heart tuggings and not on laws or problems.

I especially didn't like the argument that the Republicans should have gone into King County and searched for the absentee ballot envelopes of a 1000 felons and the 875 provisional ballot envelopes. She knows that it could NOT have been accomplished, which is exactly why she argued it. Both sides complained about King County not being responsive to discovery requests. It was a strategy designed to stall and obsecure the truth. I personally would like to see someone recount those heavily leaning Gregoire precints and to go through all of those envelopes for double and triple votes, because I believe they are there. King County admitted that their computer kept sending out duplicate ballots, some people even got 4 instead of 1. Although they would only be credited once, if the ballots are put through the accuvote, they would tallied. This election was an absolute disaster in King County because of the incompetent leaders there and nothing but nullification will fix it!

I am hopeful that Judge Bridges will set aside the election, otherwise no election will ever be credible in this state again. The SOS accusations that the Republicans destroyed the people's faith in elections is equally insane. We have lost faith because of the sheer trememdous amount of incompetent and criminal actions of a FEW election workers.

During campaign season last year, someone rang my doorbell. I wasn't expecting anyone and wasn't in the mood to deal with a salesman or a pair of Jehovah's Witnesses, so I didn't answer. I heard something being slipped under the handle of the screen door, so after a few minutes, I opned the door and retrieved the item. It was a piece of Doug Dobbins literature. And Doug himself (whom I had seen before at an event) was across the street on someone else's porch. When he heard my door open, he started running across the street toward my house.

The funny part is that my yard was festooned with Republican signs, including one for Dobbins's opponent, John Ahern.

So I pointed meaningfully at the Ahern sign, ostentatiously wadded up the flier and dropped it into the wastebasket next to my door, then shut the door.

After shutting the door, I went into the other room, took my spare Ahern sign and put it in the window.

About three seconds later, the doorbell rang. I didn't answer. At that point, I couldn't think of anything to say to the poor schmuck.

When I met him during the recount, I don't think he recognized me. At least he didn't say anything.

(Incidentally, the only reason he was in the general at all is that no one filed to run against Ahern, so the Dems party-filed him so they'd at least have a name on the ballot.)

ScottM - Great story! I have to admire Mr. Dobbins' persistence. Still glad he lost.

Mark

No. We don't need to destroy any of these people. That was never our intention.
We did, however, need to expose these people - and in doing so - bring to the forefront - people like Nicole Way and Garth Fell - so *they* (with their admissions) could destroy the machine that has corrupted our election process in King County and the State!

Doesn't that fit Durkan's closing to a T?

It had to be forced out of them.

Don't start goin' soft on us Deborah.
Elections, fairly conducted elections, are the cornerstone to our system. These people are public servants who fell short....
It is not our job to "rehab" them.
Sayonara!!

I don't hold Nicole Way blameless, but she is NOT the one who lied, nor is she the one who covered anything up. She is the one who told the truth, she is the one that the so-called leaders are pinning the blame on, because they are gutless wonders who will let their employees take the fall when they know they are the ones responsible for the mess. She may get fired for sitting on the witness stand and telling the truth! She told those three gutless male wonder supervisors of hers that the computer system wasn't working right in June 2004...... She and three other workers were put on Admin leave and probably won't come back... The real "snakes" are slithering away and avoiding any responsibility.

Leaders and supervisors have a responsibility to their workers to give them resources, expert advice, proper training, and I could go on and on....... Leaders take responsibility for their actions and for the actions of all who work for them. They don't run and hide and they don't make those friday afternoon press releases after the Shark exposes them.

And yes, it is almost criminal that everything had to be dragged out of these so-called leaders..... Unfortunately, it's only getting worse with the All mail voting of Sam Reed's! I pray that Stefan stays on top of not only this election, but those to come also!

ACK!
Don't even suggest such a thing!

This heart doesn't bleed for conspirators!
What I'm saying is - If Nicole Way and Garth Fell go down with their ship of lies and corruption - it won't be because of a direct hit from our cannon - it will be from their own rotted hull!

If she is destroyed - it will be because she chose to work with criminals and hide important election data problems.