Big day today for Dean Logan. First, my article in The Stranger which reported that Logan instructed staff to count hundreds of votes from ineligible voters.
Next, the King County Republican Party holds a press conference outside Logan's office to announce that it is filing a formal challenge to the registrations of thousands of doubly registered voters that Logan has not removed from the voter rolls. (hint: people who are registered more than once can vote more than once.)
Logan gave a short press conference after the GOP press conference.
Here is the audio of Logan's press conference. The first question was from Keith Ervin of the Seattle Times, who asked about my article.
I've transcribed the brief exchange between Ervin and Logan. Notice Logan's refusal to address the issues, except to pretend that counting ballots from unregistered voters is perfectly normal. I follow up with information that refutes Logan's defense --
Ervin: Mr. Sharkansky's report today also talked about the "fatal pends" that from his report I understand that you with collaboration of the prosecuting attorney said 'yes, let's count some number, maybe 100, maybe 200 provisional ballot of fatal pends, where the registration...Bobbie Egan: [interrupting] Keith, why don't we, sorry, can we talk about that after maybe in detail, because we only have ten minutes.
Ervin: if we have a chance to do it.
Logan: let me just say up front on that issue that you probably know far more about what was presented there than I do and I'm not going to validate any of the allegations made in that article because I don't think it's been made with any level of objectivity whatsoever.
Ervin: so you won't respond to the factual
Logan: no, I'd be happy to talk with you about the factual ... I did not make unilateral decisions to count ballots that were not vested through legal advice from our counsel and that were not common with what is typical in the elections process and with the awareness of the other canvassing board members.
As to the canvassing board? Canvassing board member Dan Satterberg told me he had no recollection of this issue coming before the canvassing board. If that is incorrect, be sure to go through the partially transcribed canvassing board recordings, here and let me know if you find any mention of these ballots before the canvassing board. I couldn't find any.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at October 12, 2005 06:31 PM | Email ThisSo, thousands could vote these ballots twice?????????
How objective can you be considering the extremely sad state of thousands of ballots in the archives?
green card voter, amy richardson, fatal pend, amoung the other nonsensical notations up there?
Please don't stop the research until his toes are totally fried!
Posted by: sgmmac on October 12, 2005 07:30 PMThe Shark for King County auditor???
Posted by: Jericho on October 12, 2005 07:40 PMI stated last winter that there is NO WAY that Dean Logan would be fired until after this Novembers election.
It is inexcusable that they refuse to re-register everyone. To do anything less will allow thousands of illegal voters to remain on in the database.
While doorbelling this week I discovered 2 more duplicate voters. One of them had no idea that she was registered twice.
Posted by: Steven Pyeatt on October 12, 2005 08:03 PMHe was told by Ron Sims to count every vote. Having had the good home training he did just that.
Posted by: JCM on October 12, 2005 08:12 PMLogan should have been out on his ear months ago. Only reason Sims is keeping him is that Sims hopes to steal another election before having to admit his mistakes. Logan is an embarrassment to the county, untrained, uneducated and nothing but a flunky.
Fatal pends is anoher reason why all Washington voters should be re-registered, not just KC. SAme with mailing of military ballots. Any indication that military ballots have been mailed yet for the upcoming general election?
Posted by: Clean House on October 12, 2005 08:46 PMLogan should have been out on his ear months ago. Only reason Sims is keeping him is that Sims hopes to steal another election before having to admit his mistakes. Logan is an embarrassment to the county, untrained, uneducated and nothing but a flunky.
Fatal pends is anoher reason why all Washington voters should be re-registered, not just KC. SAme with mailing of military ballots. Any indication that military ballots have been mailed yet for the upcoming general election?
Posted by: Clean House on October 12, 2005 08:46 PMLogan should have been out on his ear months ago. Only reason Sims is keeping him is that Sims hopes to steal another election before having to admit his mistakes. Logan is an embarrassment to the county, untrained, uneducated and nothing but a flunky.
Fatal pends is anoher reason why all Washington voters should be re-registered, not just KC. SAme with mailing of military ballots. Any indication that military ballots have been mailed yet for the upcoming general election?
Posted by: Clean House on October 12, 2005 08:47 PMLogan should have been out on his ear months ago. Only reason Sims is keeping him is that Sims hopes to steal another election before having to admit his mistakes. Logan is an embarrassment to the county, untrained, uneducated and nothing but a flunky.
Fatal pends is anoher reason why all Washington voters should be re-registered, not just KC. SAme with mailing of military ballots. Any indication that military ballots have been mailed yet for the upcoming general election?
Posted by: Clean House on October 12, 2005 08:47 PMThey've got to hold this clown car act together for another couple of weeks to cook yet another election.
Posted by: Andy on October 12, 2005 09:00 PMFire Logan. Fire Huennekens (we knew HE was full of it for quite some time).
Fire Joly.
Fire Carlos.
Fire Egan.
And most of all, fire that Sims dude. All of these people are full of beans and worse. We have HAD it with these excuse-makers. We know their game. THEY know their game (they just won't talk about it unless forced to). They counted hundreds and really into the thousands of illegal ballots, left too many others uncounted, and truly did all kinds of disgraceful other things like produce misleading ballot reports. Shame on all of the 'investigative groups' hired by the council and appointed by Sims for totally glossing over the worst of this gutrot!!! It really IS as bad as everyone thought.
Thank you, Shark, for looking into it and really being the one trying to bring some kind of accountability to these people. Everyone at the 'official' level has to take blame for this. Council people, the entire elections office, Sims, the prosecutors, the U.S. attorney for closing his eyes to all this.
ENOUGH! Why do we have to put up with this??
WHO TOLD Logan to count those Fatal Pends? Was it his own idea? Or Sims'? Or Phillips'?
STOP THE CORRUPTION!!! NOW!!!!
Posted by: Realist on October 12, 2005 09:08 PMKing County stole this election from the whole state. It stinks and it cannot be tolerated any more. Our taxes pay for this shoddy operation. Fair-minded citizens and all the candidates deserve so much better.
Posted by: Michele on October 12, 2005 09:15 PMIt is fun to hear you all rant and rave though.
Posted by: Unkl Witz on October 12, 2005 11:02 PMThis is the time that the KC Republican Party and The Seattle Times - Keith Ervin, will either shine.....or forever drop the ball.
Sims and Logan are going wobbly! They have both been busy with damage control this week and it's only the beginning of their exposure....
Right now, Ron Sims is wetting his pants over yesterday's Seattle Times story linking a Southwest Airlines lobbyist to his campaign staff... Just hours after that story ran - Sims called an impromptu press conference to kill the proposed Southwest Airline bid for Boeing airfield! Timing is everything....
Logan has been caught red-handed personally accepting illegal votes and disenfranchising legal votes...He has been caught in his lie about purging duplicate voter registrations...
Their house of cards is just beginning to painfully fall apart...
Posted by: Deborah on October 12, 2005 11:10 PM
Well gee, knuckle head if you and your ilk hadn't stolen the election we might have an answer to that question.
What I find so hypocritical about the S/P crowd is how selective they are in their rage against perceived government misfeasance.
What you are doing is akin to attacking the messenger and ignoring the message. Your comment is toward the reaction of the message and not the substance of it.
Would any of these folks be still pouring over individual ballot envelopes if Rossi had narrowly won? I doubt it.
This may be true for some, but it is still irrelevant. What ever the catalyst is that brings about exposure is not as important as what is exposed and its validity.
Do any of them seem to care that there are far more devious plots afoot that affect them in much larger and more direct ways than anything Dean Logan ever said or did?
This is clearly debatable. There may well be more devious and larger plots afoot, but the average citizen’s voice as to those that govern them (locally, statewide, & nationally) is their vote. These votes are counted locally.
Dean Logan's career is Fatal, Pending the voters and media examining the evidence that Stefan just keeps coming out showing that at best, he made very little care of going through provisionals and absentee ballots and at worst, he was party to some very deceitful, possibly even criminal oversight.
I won't be satisfied until Dean Logan is out of King County Elections.
Posted by: Jeff B. on October 12, 2005 11:47 PMWhy else would Logan go through known illegal ballots? If Gregoire was winning, I doubt he'd have felt the need to do that.
I WONDER WHEN IN THE PROCESS DID LOGAN ORDER THOSE ILLEGAL BALLOTS COUNTED?? DURING THE FIRST COUNT? During the first recount? During the second? Would be very interesting....
And they say there was no fraud down at KCE.....Bull!
So, how selective are you, Witzie? Is this merely "perceived," or does Stefan have photographic proof? You don't seem to have any counter arguments to what Stefan has found, other than to attack the messenger. Why is that?
Is it government misfeasance/malfeasance? Oh, that's right--it's merely the fault of a few misguided idiots, rather than the actual government. The government is blameless in allthis. So, we can just fire those losers, and all will be well in the Emerald Empire once more.
"Would any of these folks be still pouring [sic] over individual ballot envelopes if Rossi had narrowly won? I doubt it."
Okay, let me follow the logic: if Rossi had won, these people would not have been going over these things. And because they would not have done so, what they are doing here is useless and drawing false connections.
Just in case you really can't see (and are not being deliberately obtuse), here is what is wrong with your statement: what "they" are doing here has no relation at all to what "they" would or would not have done if Rossi had won.
If Rossi had won, would the Dems have done the same thing? Oh, wait, Rossi *did* win--twice--and what did the Dems do? Hmm...
"Do any of them seem to care that there are far more devious plots afoot that affect them in much larger and more direct ways than anything Dean Logan ever said or did? Apparently not."
Enlighten us, o Smug One. Clearly the Illuminati, or worse, the UN, are hatching a secret plot that you know about, and hint about in dark whispers.
But again, your logic is lacking. It is silly to say that just because there are "more devious plots afoot" that we should ignore this one.
That's like saying, in an analogy, "Well, the tires on my car are dangerously bald, but the check engine light keeps coming on, and that's a more serious, mysterious problem, so I'd better track that down first before I ever get around to replacing those slick, treadless tires."
"It is fun to hear you all rant and rave though."
Too bad we can never take you seriously, Witzie. You just like to mouth off instead of contributing to the discussion--much like Sims, Logan, et al.
You're not working for them, are you?
Michele,
That is an excellent question!
The answer could be so damning to Logan and Sims... I wonder if the answer can be found in Carlos Webb's deposition?
Some of them twice or more.
Huge strides being an audit that would make anyone who's audited any process fall out of their chair laughing.
Posted by: Grog on October 13, 2005 02:09 AMYou say things, but you won't stand behind them.
You are a coward, a liar, and a fraud.
Go away!
Posted by: alphabet soup on October 13, 2005 07:10 AMNobody need justify outrage at corruption, Wizz. Why don't you justify your consistent defense of corruption?
Posted by: South County on October 13, 2005 07:12 AMHere is something else to think about. Who from SW, Alaska etc. gave money to Sims re-election? Siegal is good at finding that kind of stuff out. Maybe he will run with it.
Reminds me of the take-over/attempted take-over of the Dinner Train for a trail. Why was that done? Because during the time the trail would be underconstruction water and sewer lines could be laid to support highrise high income condos in the Rainer Valley with view of the Lake. Remember that there is already a parallel trail to the Dinner Train route just a few blocks from there. The valley is the last lakeside neighborhood in Seattle that has not gentrified. The Bellevue highrises are underpressurized. Can't have the same problem in the Valley. Thus the need to run a profitable business out of business and take the land/rail route for water and sewer lines.
Condo developers make bigger campaign donations than wait staff on the dinner train. And with the Kelo case and the 14th Amendment in Sims pocket the developers in WA cannnot be denied the same 'rights' (powers) as the developers in CN. Out with the poor and the dinner train and in with the Urban Village in the Valley and in with Developers campaign comtributions.
Follow the money.
Posted by: Jericho on October 13, 2005 08:47 AMA derivation of Catherine is Katrina.
A derivation of Margeret is Rita.
Katrina and Rita. Interesting, eeh?
Must be George Bush's fault.
Posted by: Jericho on October 13, 2005 09:22 AM(thanks for the LOL, Jericho!)
Posted by: alphabet soup on October 13, 2005 09:24 AMCleaning up Dodge City hereabouts is tougher than we might imagine. Keep up the pressure on those editors and reporters.
Posted by: Hank Bradley on October 13, 2005 09:47 AMDue to this lack in your character, you somehow feel compelled to frequent S/P and insert bitchy rhetoric into the discussions. But just as the Tinman in the Wizard of Oz eventually gets at heart, we hold out hope that you will eventually get a brain.
Posted by: dl on October 13, 2005 10:01 AMSome citizens??? Like Stepan? Oh, that is right Stephan has "an agenda."
But of course Logan is a public servant. Serving himself at the expense of the public.
Time for the torches and pitchforks yet?
Posted by: Jericho on October 13, 2005 10:16 AMSims like old times.
Nothing to look at here. Move along. Ignore those witch hunters and agenda driven peons.
More poor in King County. Oh darn. We'll see what we can do with that, uh, I mean about that. Of course our policies have not contributed to this sad state of affairs. It's George Bush's fault. Just ask Mayor Nagin.
Posted by: Jericho on October 13, 2005 10:20 AMAlso, Is Dean Logan trying to play the victim here? Oh, the poor democrats, are the republicans being mean again? LOL
Yes, beware of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy....
We are out to get you!!!!
Posted by: Danno on October 13, 2005 03:54 PMSeems to me when a bunch of voters' rights were violated in the Deep South, the feds came in and did something about it!
Posted by: Bostonian on October 13, 2005 03:56 PMThe fight of a lifetime! logan VS. the purple people eaters!!! who will win no one knows.
Posted by: Laurie on October 14, 2005 07:46 AMOur resident liberal scholar says,
What I find so hypocritical about the S/P crowd is how selective they are in their rage against perceived government misfeasance. Would any of these folks be still pouring over individual ballot envelopes if Rossi had narrowly won? I doubt it. Do any of them seem to care that there are far more devious plots afoot that affect them in much larger and more direct ways than anything Dean Logan ever said or did? Apparently not. It is fun to hear you all rant and rave though.Amazing.
These insipid comments serve immeasurably to help those who are on the fence clearly recognize and avoid the embarrassment of being associated with this type of irrational circular nonsense; the mindless, spiteful, petty, liberal agenda of a Democrat true believer.
Hang in there Rich, you're doin' good.
Posted by: Amused by liberal morons on October 15, 2005 09:20 PM