September 26, 2006
"Nationally recognized best practices in mail ballot reconciliation"
In yesterday's ballot counting update, King County Elections Interim Director Jim Buck ("Jimron") said:
"This primary gives us another chance to improve upon King County's nationally recognized best practices in mail ballot reconciliation,"
(it's the same practices which allowed
390 ballots to disappear in last year's primary). The press release includes a table "Ballot Count Totals to date", with these numbers:
Poll ballots: 66,375
Absentee ballots counted today: 250,026
Absentee ballots: 316,401
Actually, I think it should read:
Absentee ballots counted today: 34,970
Absentee ballots counted to date: 250,026
Total ballots counted: 316,401
But who's counting?
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at September 26, 2006
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1. Do they actually believe their own press releases?
2. Too funny!
3. Seems to me if this were a Republican county...you wouldn't care less about all this.
4. Seems to me if this were a Republican county...you wouldn't care less about all this.
5. Huh??
6. 316,401 votes were 'cast', but I don't believe it would be accurate to say they were 'counted'.
According to the King County Elections website they only 'counted' 198,310 Democrat ballots, 92,544 ballots, totalling 290,854.
Oh, but wait, we do have these other 7,528 AVU ballots (Accessible Voting Unit Ballots) that King County can't tell if they are D's, R's, or nonselectors. How many millions did these new AVU's cost? So even if we throw in those 7,528 voters, we only have 298,382 counted votes.
We are still shy 18,019 uncounted votes in the partisan races. How many of those votes were completely excluded?
KC still has a ways to go on accuracy.
7. The King County Elections Department is nationally recognized, but certainly not for any "best practices". Unless you're a democRat who loses 2 of 3 counts and wins the third through "found ballots". The Silly Party is alive and well in King County.
8. HA!...good one Burdabee
Nationally recognized....wow...
also nationally known for (tongue in cheek)
Dry climate
Cheap housing
Abundant freeways
9. "This primary gives us another chance to improve..."
well, i'm looking at a smoldering homestead. cow kicked elections lantern in 2004. barn burned 2004-2005 with all the fake 'investigating.' THEN, Ron opened the gate to let out animals. too little. too late. game over. ("tilt" light on my voting pinball game)
10. Stefan, Cleanup on aisles 3 & 4...
11. we should call the interim guy buckron. It just has a better ring to it.
12. Buckron--love it!
13. ehhhh--i don't like Buckron--reminds me of the sine-cosine movie about those pink cowboys--Buck is no longer a male name. at least it's still on my huge hunting knife. how about "f-ron?" or "pekka-head?"
14. Nationally recognized for best practices in elections corruption. Hey, they are getting away with it so the title probably fits.
15. best practices? i'd hate to see poor practices! to me, it's indistinguishable so far. sure--grading on curve--among morons, they probably shine. counting votes? hire a bunch of local bingo seniors--they watch their cards closer than DeBeers diamond security folk.
16. you actually trust demorats?