In this week's The Stranger, my good friend Sandeep goes a little overboard in his analysis of the Wenatchee ruling. Fortunately, The Stranger's diversity-hire conservative sets the record straight
After a 129-vote lead on the third count, Gregoire cockily declared that the election had been "a model to the rest of the nation and the world at large." By the end of the trial, her lawyers showed Judge Bridges enough offsetting errors and illegal votes that they only affirmed the central claim from Rossi's contest petition: that "the number of illegal votes counted, and the number of valid votes improperly rejected in this election, are so great as to render the true result of the election uncertain and likely unknowable."
Nice article thanks.
Posted by: Erik on June 9, 2005 05:11 PMX - A - B = X + Z
If you have "X" number of voters credited with voting in this contest minus "A" number of disqualified ballots for errors with the ballot,
minus "B" number of voters who did not vote for governor in that portion of the ballot; how do you end up with "Z" more ballots than voters in an that same election?
And that is still true, even if you remove the "C" number of illegal voters identified.
(X - A - B)-C = (X + Z)-C
So, as long as there is no reconciliation (crediting of who cast a ballot) and election officals do not have to account for their actions.
Did we really have a fair election?
Mike
(An online poll is really no good.)
Posted by: Bostonian on June 9, 2005 06:25 PMMark
Posted by: Mark D on June 9, 2005 06:47 PMBrittan has "postal voting" and they deal with it fine. Oregon has Vote by Mail and they have "zero" irregularities. Sam (R I AM) Reed loves it! Dean (little D) Logan is excited about it.
What is wrong with you old fashion Republicans?
...OK, sarcasm off...
100% absentee...
What is wrong with this sentence?
I'm all for it! Now I can be sure my wife's vote doesn't cancel mine out!
Posted by: Doug on June 9, 2005 09:11 PMUhhh -- margin of error, buddy.
Posted by: Roscoe on June 9, 2005 09:25 PM...Gregoire's 129 vote win had grown to 133.
Posted by: Daniel K on June 9, 2005 09:54 PM:-)
Posted by: Elmo on June 9, 2005 10:15 PMChange in ballot count from 1st to 3rd count: increase by 4145, with 1166 coming from King County or 28 Percent.
But the real numbers are the credited voters, for you are required to sign for your ballots, for both absentee or at the polls, before your ballot is to be counted. The number of voters should be equal or higher than the number of ballots because you also have the offically rejected ballots. If King County has 864 fewer credited voters than ballots. How did they get to that number? Did King County have have no rejected ballots? No, they did have rejected ballots. This means the number of extra (unverified) ballots is that much higher.
Months ago I told you to stop beating a dead horse, and you defiantly told me your frivolous lawsuit was going to turn things upside down, Shark.
Now that I've been proven right and you've been proven to be nothing more than a whiny loser, I thought you might be man enough to have a change of heart. I guess not!
LOSER. Get used to that word, Shark. It fits you and your crowd just perfectly.
Posted by: name on June 10, 2005 07:03 AMBill H
Posted by: Bill H on June 10, 2005 09:35 AMThat's socialism, not comm....oh....never mind
Posted by: smoke on June 10, 2005 12:02 PMSocialism
the set of beliefs which states that all people are equal and should share equally in the wealth of the country, or the political systems based on these beliefs.