I hear that the Oscars are on TV tonight.
Oscars, schmoscars. I'll be listening to the David Goldstein Show tonight at 8pm on 710 KIRO. No really. The guest that hour will be former state Rep. Toby Nixon, discussing the King County ballot initiative to elect the county Elections Director. Call-in your questions to Toby at 1-877-710-KIRO (5476). (And no, I'm not in the habit of listening to Goldy Radio. This is one of the rare occasions when he has a worthwhile guest).
And if you're already convinced, as I am, that changing the governance of King County Elections and putting it in the hands of a separately elected non-partisan elections director is an indispensable step towards fair and honest elections, then make a donation to Citizens for Accountable Elections.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at February 25, 2007 04:21 PM | Email ThisIf you have the stomach to get past KLOWNstein's arrogance & his dreadful, shrieky Pee Wee Herman/Alvin/Simon/Theodore voice....this discussion could prove interesting.
I'm 100% in favor of an Elected King County Auditor/Election Official....like every other county in Washington. I am slightly encouraged by the actions of King County thus far regarding the apparent MASSIVE ACORN Voter Registration fraud. The ball is now in the Court of Norm Maleng's Prosecutor's Office. Hopefully an independent investigation will be conducted by the Sheriff's Office, evidence turned over to Maleng & appropriate charges filed against these losers.
I'm all for plea bargains with some of the small fish if they give up bigger fish in the ACORN nuthouse. ACORN seemed to have ZERO quality control over Voter Registrations submitted. How convenient for ACORN leadership to simply turn their LEFTIST PINHEADS to obvious misconduct.....then scream outrage at the "few" in their organization that are "overzealous".
Overzealous is the LEFTIST PINHEADED KLOWN term for "cheatin' like an SOB!!"
I wonder how Dean Logan is doing???
Posted by: Mr. Cynical on February 25, 2007 04:35 PMWhoa! I hope Arbitron is paying attention
I won't be doing either... I've never wasted my time with the Oscars and I've given up wasting my time with the horses asses.
Posted by: Ragnar Danneskjold on February 25, 2007 06:00 PM1. Watch Oscars, where agenda driven leftist awards are given out to undeserving Marxists.
2. Listen to whiny and insignificant rants about why we don't need any election protection or accountability from David Goldstein, Puget Sound Marxist extraordinaire.
3. Change my car's oil.
That's the easiest decision ever.
Posted by: Jeff B. on February 25, 2007 08:59 PM2,107,370 votes later, only 1 under suspicion
So they investigated. They cleared 56 pairs of ballots right away by determining that they were in fact cast by two different people. One was chalked up to a clerical error, where someone who had moved to another county was credited with voting at his old residence, but actually didn't. Three others turned out, on further investigation, to be voters who do have the same name and birthday but are different people.
That left one case of someone who may have voted twice. It was turned over to the King County prosecutor and might - repeat might - result in prosecution. More investigation is required.
So at most, there was one case of double voting out of 2,107,370 ballots cast.
Reed said he was "pleasantly surprised" with the results. The state is doing a better job of cleaning its voter records but, he added, "we really don't have a history of voter fraud here."
That may come as a huge shock to some of his Republican brethren, who still hope to run Dino Rossi in a gubernatorial grudge match against Chris Gregoire to win the seat that was "stolen" from him.
It also might give pause to some of their pollsters, who seem to delight in reporting that when people are asked if they have confidence that the problems of the 2004 elections have been cleared up, those people tend to say, "Nope."
Posted by: ben on February 26, 2007 12:35 PM
But it might also be seen as proof the safeguards actually work.
Even if these registrations had arrived on time and been entered, anyone seeking to vote would have had to show up with a valid ID with an address that matched the registration before casting a ballot at the polls.
Voting by mail would have been a problem, because many of the addresses appear not to be valid, so ballots would never have been delivered.
FROM THE SAME ARTICLE IN SPOKESMAN REVIEW.
So at most, there was one case of double voting out of 2,107,370 ballots cast.They found one case of plausible illegal voting of the type that they looked at. We have no idea how many other types of illegal voting there were that they didn't choose to look for. Friday's post includes another example of double voting that the SoS wasn't looking for.
I've found other possible cases of double voting in King County that are not of the type that the SoS wasn't searching for. I'm still gathering info on these.
Posted by: Stefan Sharkansky on February 26, 2007 12:43 PMPosted by: ben on February 26, 2007 12:45 PM
Why are we STILL debating IF voter fraud occurred?
Posted by: David on February 26, 2007 03:28 PM