The good news is that I'm now receiving the voter database transaction logs from the various counties.
So far: King, Snohomish and Clark counties have all delivered their log files, Kitsap is ready to ship, and Pierce and Yakima have promised to send theirs in the next few weeks. I'm developing some scripts to perform county-level analysis to compare performance in areas such as duplicate registrations and absentee ballot reconciliation, both during the November 2004 fiasco and in subsequent elections. I'm also going to make all of the individual voter data available through our online voter database, so everyone can see some of these things for themselves.
It's not quite done yet, nor is it very user-friendly, but here are a few samples of some interesting cases from King County --
Example 1: The Provisional Ballots and Absentee Ballots tables for this voter shows that he cast both an absentee and a provisional ballot in November 2004 and both were counted. (photos of envelopes here)
Example 2: This voter is one of the "fatal pends" -- he hadn't signed his registration form in mid-2004, so he wasn't eligible to vote in November, but they knowingly counted his provisional ballot right before certification anyway (photo of envelope here). He was enrolled as a fully eligible voter on January 6, just in time to "reduce the difference between ballots cast and voters credited". In July the voter registation card that was mailed to him was returned by the post office as undeliverable.
Example 3: This voter is another of the Nov. 2004 "fatal pends". She was also enrolled as a fully eligible voter on January 6, 2005. She was sent an absentee ballot for the September primary, but she didn't vote it.
A diligent elections worker finally took her off the rolls on Nov. 1, 2005.
Example 4: King County Council Chairman Larry Phillips apparently no longer trusts the county to count his absentee ballot after they screwed up in November 2004. That was the last time he voted absentee. We'll remember this when he tries to push through the Council Deanron's proposal to force the rest of us to vote by mail. (The Absentee Ballot Transactions table shows how his ballot was originally rejected on Nov 4 as "NSOF" [no signature on file] and then the NSOF was cleared on Dec. 23)
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at April 28, 2006 05:54 PM | Email ThisThe reality is, many of the ballots counted in 2004 simply should not have been counted.
As usual, the Dems are willing to twist the law, as long as it gives them a preferential outcome.
Does anyone even remotely think there would have been the Larry Phillips Ballot Whambulance if Gregoire has been leading after the first two counts?
King County is a joke. I really do like to drop by occasionally to visit, but I am damn glad I don't live there. As bad as Pierce County is, at least we don't have Deanron.
Posted by: Jeff B. on April 28, 2006 09:35 PMHe never registered to vote -- having not signed the oath on the registration form. So, why leave his name on the rolls as an "inactive" voter? All he would need to do is submit a ballot, and they would probably change him to "active," I suppose -- without ever going back and requiring him to sign the oath.
Another part of his transaction log is odd. How did they change him to "A" for "active" on January 6 without making the "last transaction date" January 6? How did they insert an earlier date (Dec. 29, 2004) when the change was made on January 6? Look farther down in July -- the last transaction date before changing him from "A" to "I" is December 29, 2004. January 6 doesn't show up as a transaction date, even though it was the date of the "transaction."
Posted by: Micajah on April 28, 2006 09:39 PMThis cesspool of a Greener County deserves to be scrutinized as well. I'm sure there are plenty of cheating D's the way the've dominated control down here.
Thank you for volunteering to monitor the votes cast in your own demise.
Just a warning: Republicans may be a bit uneasy if you look to closely at the countries THEY control.
Death mocks you.
You obvoiusly haven't read many of the opinions on this blog about election reform. We don't care who controls the county. We want clean voter rolls. We want clean procedures for handling ballots. We want only one vote per person. We want only U.S. citizens voting.
If "Rebublican" counties don't match up to these standards, we want them to clean up their act too.
Death, get a life.
Posted by: SouthernRoots on April 29, 2006 08:29 AMA
Posted by: Jeff B. on April 29, 2006 10:39 AMI found that the previous owner of my house was still registered to vote in my county. I inquired with the auditor, and they said that only that person can remove the registration. I asked if submitting documents showing the title of my house in my name and my wife's would be enough proof that no other voters should be listed at our house. They said no. And, since I don't know how to contact the previous owner, there's nothing I can do to get her removed from the voter roll.
Then the auditor said that she would be removed after two cycles of having not voted. I pointed out that indeed there have been two cycles since she last voted according to Stefan's DB. Again, no response, and the previous owner is still on the voter roll.
So all a moonbat has to do to get another vote counted is find registrations that are still active, but that have not been used in a while, and they can submit a provisional. If it's close, it's doubtful that Deanron or other corrupt auditors will do the true signature verification needed to verify that indeed the person who submitted the provisional is an actual voter. Huennekens admitted to having counted many such ballots in 2004.
The system is fatally flawed. Dems like it that way. They are in power. Nothing will change.
Posted by: Jeff B. on April 29, 2006 10:49 AMRight you are. The system is fatally flawed. Dems like it that way. They are in power.
Given the consistent quality substance of your commets at SP I imagine that you know as well as I
that things will change. The problem is that it probably won't change as quickly or in the way we would like it to or as it "should."
Dogged determination will out, and guys like Stefan Sharkansy are doggedly determined, as well as inspired.
There is always divine intervention; for he helps those who help themselves.
Yes indeed, this place is liberal-maggot infested and hope seems lost -- but more immutable and inevitable than any other aspect of nature is change.
Thanks.
Posted by: Amused by liberals on April 29, 2006 12:00 PMIt's very pathetic. I applaud Stefan's determination, and continue to support him, but the pace of change is indeed slow.
Posted by: Jeff B. on April 29, 2006 02:32 PMWhat potential do you think there is that the plundering of our electoral system here in Washington State might trigger an investigation based on violations of Federal Elections Laws? Unlike the last election, the coming elections will decide who sits in Federal legislative seats. I have not researched this in detail but I am certain that there are standards that would prevent Washington from peremptory abuse, misfeasance/malfeasance. Seems to me that the question is one of prosecutorial discretion on the feds part.
It would seem obvious that while our state is not technically doing anything expressly illegal (maybe, maybe not??), it is plundering any possibility of accurate and fair elections results that affect much more than the interests of our state alone.
This is not a small question -- it could involve a chain of collateral events that exposes America to its destruction by handing power back to the criminals in our society -- liberal Democrats.
Posted by: Amused by liberals on April 30, 2006 10:31 AMLet me guess... 41 years old, unemployed (because you don't want to sell your *valuable* labor to some conservative boss), still living at home (but you have your independance because you've moved out of your mommas house into the basement). Got a little "herb" farm in that musky basement, but the latest crop leaves much to be desired because your mom won't loan you the money to buy a new show and grow light...
Your life's just a dirty lazy downhill spiral into a meaningless void, because you don't believe in anything other than your entitlement to other people's money.
Got news for you - unless you shed your wacky leftist beliefs, and start believing in the amazing potential that God has given to every man - even you, and make something of yourself, you're on board for another 20 or 30 years of meaningless rantings and then you'll die alone and bitter.
Death, we *PITY* you...