September 19, 2005
It's not in the P-I
Today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer -- "King County officials have a lot riding on primary"
the primary Tuesday provides an acid test of the measures Logan has adopted in response to 2004. A repeat debacle, or anything close to it, almost certainly will cost Logan his job and will hand Irons a powerful weapon for attacking Sims.
The article mentions some of the sensible changes that Dean Logan has made this time around, such as in the way that provisional ballots are managed at the polling places. However, the article does not mention at all the fact that all of the absentee ballots were mailed out with
illegal forwarding endorsements, that thousands of doubly registered voters remain on the rolls or that hundreds of duplicate ballots were sent out.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at September 19, 2005
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1. What? You actually expect the Least Intelligence to mention problems with the mail ballot systems? Ron Sims and Dean Logan promised that all the problems have been fixed. That's good enough for the PI. So why bother going out of the office, after all it will disrupt more important stuff like blaming GWB, and researching to see if things have really improved.
2. As long as the sport of choice is blaming President Bush for ANYTHING--note yesterday's (Sunday's) editorials and columns) elections are not going to matter a whole lot.
3. Keep in mind this is local MSM...don't expect intelligence, unbiased reporting, or investigative reporting. Large portions of local MSM articles should be reported as in-kind contributions for democrats and liberal special intersts. Warnings should be required...reading too much of this hack crap can lead to blindness.
4. Folks there is a reason that some refer to the P.I. as the PU!! Because, when it comes to being balanced IT STINKS!! Thankfully it soon will be no more!A good way to spell relief as I see too
bda the rest of the MSM doesn't suffer a drop in readership!!
5. More proof of irrelevance...today's PI article "Washington Primary, don't know vs. don't care." The primary authority quoted is a 19 yr. old UW student, with soundbite quotes from other Seattlites. No clue that there is life outside of downtown Seattle, yet south and east county voters have much more of interest on the primary ballot. PI's idea of diversity? Quote one voter from West Seattle. Major unimpressed, don't wait up for me to subscribe.
6. DL. Thanks for pointing out these newspapers for me. I always wondered which newspaper to subscribe to.
Stefan, I appreciate the monitoring you perform on your blog, unlike your competitor over at the animal body parts. He doesn't police racial epithets or apologize for their use or castigate the user, hence I'll visit your side.
This sounds like standard CA Democratic Party politics. Did Ron Sims learn at the feet of the CA masters.
I hope you are reading Lucite and Goldy!
PacMan
7. "A repeat debacle...?" Forget it. How many 'do-over's' do we need for election reform? How many strikes does a batter get--50? Fire them. The fact that the incompetent managers are still around and drawing salaries is a travesty. WAKE UP! How many mistakes do we allow doctors or surgeons? Granted, this is not surgery, but a professional is a professional. Too much talk--where is the action? Where are the results?
8. NOTE TO POLITICIANS: A FREE PEPOLE CLAIM THEIR RIGHTS AS DERIVED FROM THE LAWS OF NATURE.....AND NOT AS A GIFT OF THEIR MAGISTRATE!!!!
9. As Bush would say "It takes time...it takes time..."
10. As Queen Christine would say, "It's mine, I bought it, we need to move on...get over it."
11. Even more alarming there is some evidence that absentee ballot signature verification is not being done!
12. The PI is so out of touch with the majority of readers in Washington state! (Both Democrat and Republican.)
I was talking to my neighbors this weekend...(The neighbors who kept their Kerry/Edwards signs in their windows until June...and still have the bumper sticker on their car...)... I was shocked when they said they are NOT voting for Ron Sims!! They had a long list of reasons...(many mirrored our concerns!)
This is looking real bad for Sims if even staunch liberal's don't like him!
The P I reporters and editorial staff have got to get out more!
13. There are a lot of "liberals" that say they aren't voting but Sims this fall, which is great, but it is just as important that they DO vote for Irons. Irons is a decent, hard working guy that wants to correct a lot of the social problems Sims has swept under the rug - and isn't that what the liberals are always hollering about? I'm using every chance I get to turn Sims-opponents into Irons-supporters. It's easy once they get the facts on Irons. Did you see he's new motto? Common sense, Uncommon integrity. Very nice. And just what we need.
14. Judge Sharkansky: I judged (not) at a U District polling place where the oath, such as it was, was read & sworn only because I insisted that we observe the formality. The inspector's reluctance to administer the "oath" later acquired meaning when another judge walked away from his station with his unused ballots. That happened at high noon. The inspector and his ballots did not return to the polling place for one hour.
Meanwhile ... An inspector from another U District polling place came to our place, and to the precinct from which ballots had walked away, to cast her ballot. That's when we discovered the disappearance. Our inspector declined to call a trouble-shooter who could shoot our trouble. Our inspector thought it not worthwhile to report that c. 75 ballots had walked away, and told the visiting inspector-voter that we'd walk a ballot over to her later, walk it back to our place, and feed it through our machine.