Ron Sims was on the Mike Siegel Show yesterday and made a number of hilariously incorrect statements. For example, when Siegel asked him about the fact that King County has thousands of duplicate voter registrations, which have led to double voting, Sims claimed that if an already registered voter submits a second registration form, staff are required by state law to accept both registrations. He also said that it is against the law for staff to simply eliminate duplicates, that only the voter can cancel one of their own duplicate registrations. But That is simply not true.
Here are a few sample pages from the King County Elections voter registration procedures manual. It shows that if the registration entry clerk determines that a new registration form is a duplicate, the correct procedure is to apply any new information from the new form to the old registration. The problem in King County is not that there are no procedures to eliminate duplicate registrations. It is that the procedures were not always followed.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at November 03, 2005 07:40 AM | Email ThisVote early, vote often.
Posted by: JCM on November 3, 2005 08:10 AMBy the time his opponent has done the research like in this post, the interview is long over and the sheep believe him and his opponents fail to gain the upper hand.
Since MSM seem to be useless as anything other than talking heads (TV) or stenographers/editorialists (Print) he's gotten away with it.
Posted by: Andy on November 3, 2005 08:36 AMEveryone else gets a free pass to spin whatever lies are convenient to win an election.
"We will balance this budget without increasing taxes." - Gregoire
Posted by: Andy on November 3, 2005 08:39 AMThese KC officials have repeatedly told the public that voting problems have been fixed when in fact they have not been fixed.
People have relied upon these false statements from officials who have a fiduciary duty to the public.
Those officials knew or should have been reasonably expected to have known that the statements (aka Spin) they were making that things were fixed were in fact false statements designed to mislead the public.
It sure sounds like fraud to me.
Posted by: Bob on November 3, 2005 08:54 AMI've said it before, the Dems by at least 5 point, and it will be declared a ratification for their policies and clear evidence that election reforms are working.
Posted by: Diogenes on November 3, 2005 08:56 AMJust because Simms makes President Bush look like a polished wordsmith and Logan's crew continues to disenfranchise the rest of the state does not mean they are incompetent.
In fact, they are very effective in delivering elections to the dems when they are called on.
In my opinion, these guys are not clowns; they seem to be pretty good at what they do. The fact that the papers and suits on TV and every branch of law enforcement gives them a pass makes it pretty tough to stop them.
The rest of the State needs to realize that a voter can register 2 or more times in King County and will have every vote counted. Why this does not bother even the liberal news hounds in Spokane, Wenatchee and elsewhere is pretty amazing.
By the time his opponent has done the research like in this post, the interview is long over and the sheep believe him and his opponents fail to gain the upper hand.
I'm am not a professional debater, nor have I played one on TV, but imagine how effective it would be if the GOP challenger to Sims boned up on the relevant portions of state law and county procedures so that he could quote chapter and verse when Sims opens his mouth. Has Irons done his homework? I hope so. Time is short.
Posted by: huckleberry on November 3, 2005 09:20 AMthey have already sold the notion that earring man Bridges cleared them of all charges...
Posted by: righton on November 3, 2005 09:57 AMHe may have had a point, take the current democratic agenda to it's logical conculsion and you end at a totalitarian communist slave state.
I am afraid of that, very afraid.
Posted by: JCM on November 3, 2005 10:31 AMThere is a slim possibility that Logan was honest once upon a time when he first began to work for Sims. It's clear that Sims has corrupted the whole elections department with his twisted logic of how to enforce Washington State laws. It is also entirely possible that Logan got a visit on the 17th from one of Sims' henchmen telling him to count those unregistered "fatal pends." If you believe that Ron Sims doesn't have his hand dipped deeply into the elections department, think again.
Sims is the worst kind of leader, he uses rules, regulations, and laws to gain power for personal gain. What better way to disenfranchize the entire state than to flood the system with as many illegal ballots as possible?
It is sickening that everyone wrings their hands, looks the other way and claims it isn't their job to fix anything. Sam Reed can't do anything, Rob McKenna is powerless, the MSM won't report on it, and no-one cares except a few highly intelligent conservatives who see the system for what it is.
The entire state is being held hostage to King County and Ron Sims. We may as well all stop voting, because our votes clearly are diluted by thousands of felons, dead people rising from the grave, illegal aliens, unregistered voters, and uber-lib double voting elitist who think it's their right to vote early and vote often while they laugh about it drinking their lattes!
The rooster is definitely guarding his hen house!
Posted by: sgmmac on November 3, 2005 10:33 AMThat was the original Diogenes' point. Even in the light of day, we remain blind and continue to stumble along in the darkness created by lies, deceit, indifference, and human frailties in general.
Posted by: Diogenes on November 3, 2005 10:33 AMRon runs around in a limosine while he tells us to conserve and use his Sound Transit to get to work.
Christine has a new Cadillac and two SUV's at her disposal, no Sound ransit there.
Ron and Dean keep telling us that the election department is fixed, but massive errors are still happening and trying to be covered up.
Maybe Al Frankin can come clean up the Election department for Ron.
It is way past time for this state to develop a form for voters to 'CHANGE' their voting information.......
Why isn't there a CHANGE form?
Posted by: sgmmac on November 3, 2005 10:37 AMNo...He spoke more like someone trying to defend himself......over and over and over again....
His voice has lost it's bravado. His face looks haggard and strained in his campaign commercials..My God..Even his wife is glaring at him in one commercial! He looks about in tears...
This is not a man who is confident about his position right now.....
Posted by: Deborah on November 3, 2005 04:57 PMAnother thing - Sims will once again use putrid political correctness to stifle any mention of Merry Christmas - instead Happy holidays, promoting the fascistic ACLU agenda. This is reason enough to vote out the bum ! David Irons will hopefully bring back the mention of Christmas to the upcoming holiday season and less of the PC bilge.
Posted by: KS on November 3, 2005 08:59 PM