As I noted last week, Deanron claimed that forcing everybody to vote by mail will somehow increase "transparency". Deanron and transparency go together like Fidel Castro goes with human rights and capitalism. Deanron has a long and glorious track record of obstructing, obfuscating, delaying and denying the public's access to public records. (For example, he waited until 3 months after the election contest trial to release a list of all absentee and provisional ballots cast in the 2004 election) Mr. Transparency continues to obstruct and deny my records requests while claiming full compliance. Last September, nearly 5 months ago, I asked for a log of all transactions on the voter database. He finally issued a set of files at the end of December, but it was missing hundreds of thousands of records. Nevertheless, he insists he released everything he has to release. So, I sent Deanron one final letter yesterday going into exquisite detail about the hundreds of thousands of records that are clearly missing from the data files he claims are complete. This letter is my last step before I haul Deanron back in front of a judge, unless of course he does his job and releases the requested records as required by law. The missing transaction records are important as they reveal various things that Deanron has been trying to keep secret. For example -- the exact number of unlawfully counted ballots cast by ineligible improperly registered "fatal pend" voters in 2004 (I now estimate upwards of 200), the accounting of absentee ballots (the files are missing records on 390,000 absentee ballots from the 2004 and 2005 elections), and his "just sweep it under the rug" handling of duplicate registrations and double voters. It all boils down to a question of trust. Trust is the key question in mail-only voting, where all operations will be centralized under Deanron's control. If Deanron can't be trusted to follow the law and release public records that reveal his errors and possible misconduct in previous elections, why should we trust him to do a better job in future elections when he has even more discretion and less oversight than before?
In the extended entry are details on my public records request and Deanron's failure to adequately respond --
I first requested the transaction logs on Sep. 30. Deanron issued a bunch of files purporting to be a complete transacton log on Dec. 22nd. After reviewing the files over the holidays, I realized they were not complete and sent Deanron an email on Jan. 4 asking for the rest of the data. He responded definitively on Feb. 3 insisting that he produced everything he has.
My Feb. 13 letter is here. Exhibits are here:
Anderson Screen Shot
Frigillana Screen Shot
Wilson Screen Shot
Transaction Log Spreadsheets
Field Values in Voter Table
Field Values Missing From Voter Table
Zip file of .csv files referenced in the letter
The most graphic illustration that Deanron did not deliver all the data he claims to have delivered is to compare the three screen shots (Anderson, Frigillana and Wilson) with the Transaction Log Spreadsheets. The black lines in the spreadsheets represent data that was present in the screen shots but not in the data files. The screen shots for these voters show pretty convincingly that these voters were not properly registered to vote because they did not sign their registration forms, yet their provisional ballots were counted any way and their registration records were later inappropriately modified. None of this would be clear from the electrionic records that were provided and it's clear that similar information is being withheld for other voters. It's obviously not practical to request screen shots for 1.8 million voter records, but with complete data files, it is possible to effiiciently search for such patterns and figure out which voters had their ballots improperly counted and their registration records improperly modified. We can also see which voters are still improperly on the voter rolls as eligible voters even though they never completed their registration forms as required by law. But I can understand from Deanron's perspective why he doesn't want the public to have information that would reveal his mistakes, misconduct and/or cover-ups.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at February 14, 2006 11:12 AM | Email ThisThe whole machine needs to be toppled.
Top to bottom overhaul of KCE.
All new faces in elected offices.
However the machine has bought and paid for votes with the public largesse, as witnessed by Deanron's win in the last election.
Posted by: JCM on February 14, 2006 11:41 AMChanging the record back and forth like that in order to produce a list of voters credited with voting in the 2004 general election without making it obvious that many weren't eligible to vote looks like willful deceit to me.
Could that be why Deanron doesn't want to be "transparent" regarding the transaction log data?
Do you have enough already to be able to see right through him? I think so.
Posted by: Micajah on February 14, 2006 11:45 AMWonder if in those 200 fatal pends that they went picking through them and counted only the ones that ended up being Gregoire votes?
Posted by: Misty on February 14, 2006 11:55 AMI have visions of a "peasants" uprising. A few thousand march on KCE with torches and pitchforks.
Absolutely peace, but making clear to Law Enforcement we mean to by our sheer numbers enforce the disclosure laws by taken over KCE and publishing all the records.
Civil disobedience to enforce laws no one else will.
Posted by: JCM on February 14, 2006 01:38 PM(Seattle Times on) This post is so bigoted! (/ST off)
Maybe this explains why the Seattle Federal Attorney Mike McKay has laid off; he too is concerned for the reaction by the religion of vote counting?
Sam Reed and the merry bunch down there can't count past about 50 so hundreds of thousands of messed up records means nothing. I had to certify it not matter what! Said a dancing Sam.
There is some wonderful filth over here! I agree with JCM
Is it pure poetic justice that the dog was flattened because she illegally took the governor’s office on the basis of illegally counted votes. Should she blame Deanron for the dog's demise?
Wait that makes me think maybe there is an entire Grand Unification Theory of Washington State politics in their current state...Deanron’s office. Without it we have two of the 3 highest offices as R’s.
Actually that one office is the lynch pin of any Democratic survival in the state of Washington. This probably is a Red State but with one office they make it Blue.
May all the wrath of one guy with a website do what hundreds of well paid local, state and federal office holders that swore an oath of office with King's crosses behind their backs will not do (and may the judgment upon them be merciful).
Great job as usual.
Keep the pressure on. Eventually it will all come back to haunt them and the timing usually strikes most corrupt coverups at just the wrong time.
You many also wish to contact the State Auditor to tell him you will turn over information for a performance audit of KCE if he would like to do one. I suspect that he may actual be interested in doing such an audit and if all the ducks are clearly in rows that don't match what DEANRON are saying, he will so report, as that is what Auditors do.
DEANRON, our RINO Sec of State, and the Wenatchee judge have clearly told the public that vigilanteeism or citizen action as you are practicing it, are the only ways the public should expect a fair election.
The Elected Officials need to become so afraid of vigilanteeism that they clean up the voting system on their own, mostly to protect their own tails.
Keep up the good work.
Posted by: Bob on February 14, 2006 03:08 PMI think that we all know what DEANRON means !!!
Posted by: tacoma phlash on February 14, 2006 03:27 PMThe party stinks to high even...from the oval office on down.
Every day there is a new story....amazing.
Posted by: LovinUSA on February 14, 2006 04:28 PMThanks for all that you are doing here to clean up KC elections.
Posted by: GS on February 14, 2006 05:15 PMI assume you are still working on getting King County to respond to the records request that you are suing over?
Posted by: Richard Pope on February 14, 2006 06:32 PMI'd trust him with my money before I'd trust you with my trash....
Posted by: alphabet soup on February 14, 2006 06:32 PMNinty (90) days or Dec-31-2005 is more than adequate.
US Attorney John (NOT Mike) McKay settled w/ University of Washington doctors and medical school for $35 million in July 2002. The amount mentioned in the Oct-08-2004 Seattle Times article by Steve Miletich and Sharon Pian Chan conservatively discusses an overbilling of $100 million.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002057427_uwdocs08.html
In NJ US Attorney Chris Christie and Democratic Governor (and former US Senator) Jon Corzine have declared medical overbilling unacceptable and have taken corrective action as listed at the end of this post.
Since Ron Sims did not take corrective action at Harborview, a King County Hospital managed by the UW School of Medicine, it is absurd to assume Sims will take corrective action in the King County Elections office.
It's a shame that the Seattle Times has chosen to ignore the scandal. The Times has done some good investigative journalism with the Native American Housing Scandal in 1998? and the Fred Hutchinson Drug Testing Scandal in 2001.
Although I prefer not to litigate, I feel you have shown more than adequate patience.
Source: Star Ledger Jan-31-2006
"UMDNJ, the largest public health university in the country, was criminally charged in December with $4.9 million in fraudulent Medicaid billing, although the Senate finance committee officials yesterday noted that the full extent of the fraud may be "in the tens of millions of dollars."
The federal charges could have forced the shutdown of UMDNJ and University Hospital in Newark. However, UMDNJ's trustees entered into a deferred-prosecution agreement with the U.S. attorney after ceding control of the university to a federal monitor -- former federal Judge Herbert Stern -- who has already hired an accounting firm to conduct a forensic audit of UMDNJ's books."
Posted by: Green Lake Mark on February 14, 2006 06:56 PMI go hunting with Cheney long before I be anywhere near Kerry.
I'd let my daughter visit GWB, but wouldn't let them near Clinton.
I'd let Senator Allen drive them anywhere, but they'd get in a car with Senator Kennedy over my dead body.
I'd sleep better at night with Dole in office, and lie awake worrying if Mondale was in.
Need I gone on?
Posted by: JCM on February 14, 2006 08:52 PM
I think Queen 'Chris' just cut a new ad for us.
Thanks!
For left lovingUSA: Rob McKenna, George Bush, and Kathy Lambert for a start. And in case you get bored tonight, think of how many "acquaintances" of the Clintons committed "suicide", were indicted, or convicted.
Posted by: Burdabee on February 14, 2006 10:28 PMAbout Deanron--
Egad, what a mess. It's hard to think why anybody would believe any election result that comes out of King County. Oh, wait...a stupid question. People would beleive it because it matches their previously conceived notions of how the results should be, rather than, say, do something like count the legal votes.
I wonder what's up with Pierce County? Snohomish?
Even more interesting is that if there were a governors race between Rossi and Queen Christine, Rossi would win by a landslide.
Hmmmmm.
Keep up the good work Stefan!
Posted by: Bob on February 15, 2006 09:14 AMYo Lovin’,
Whys don’t yous come down to the social club some time; me and a few of my associates can show you some real lovin’. Bada –Bing-Bada- Boom if yous know what I mean.
Forgetaboutit.