Sound Politics: A good question

May 11, 2007

A good question

A comment posted yesterday (#7 by "Laszlo Toth") asks

If the allegations about voter fraud by both parties have any merit, why hasn't Sullivan brought indictments yet?

Good question. Pseudonymous "Laszlo" should sign his/her real name.

Some possible reasons, pure speculation:

1) There really was a thorough investigation that concluded that all allegations of election crimes were without merit. (If that's the case, it would help convince the skeptics among us if we knew more details about the investigation than what McKay is telling the media)

2) The feds don't have the resources to investigate every credible allegation of illegal activity, so they prioritize. Some officials made a decision that the unresolved allegations were credible, but not of sufficient magnitude to warrant a federal investigation. That would take the blame off of McKay alone, but should prompt reasonable questions about the administration's priorities.

3) This issue is too much of a political hot potato that nobody's going to touch it at this point.

4) Too much time has passed since the election and memories and evidence have deteriorated by now and somebody made a judgment call that the window of opportunity for a successful prosecution has passed.

5) An investigation is currently underway, but we don't know any more about it than we knew about the investigation that McKay says he conducted.

6) combination of more than one of the above.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at May 11, 2007 11:06 AM | Email This

Comments

1. Have you personally re-contacted the prosecutor's office?

A couple of the examples were discovered by you, yet you didn't even get a callback from McKay's office. It would seem worthwhile to re-alledge, or at least re-iterate the discovered inconsistencies.

(The testimony under-oath on how mail-ballot reconciliation was performed are also problematic. They weren't brought up before the lawsuit, and the whole issue was completely dropped _after_ the lawsuit.)

Posted by: Al on May 11, 2007 11:17 AM

2. It was quite obvious that voter fraaud took place during the 04 election. Jamming thru 50K provisional ballats without verifying them, convicted felons voting, dead people voting, etc. The King County elections bureau et al should have been investigated with a fine tooth comb. If our Republic is to have clean and honest government, election fraud and other voter misconduct must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Not doing so will result in our elections looking like those run by Hugo Chavez, Castro and other one party states. Class A felonies should apply to all those involved and convicted.

Posted by: Allan Rothlisberg on May 11, 2007 11:26 AM

3. 1) McKay didn't investigate voter fraud in 2004 because there was no evidence.

2) There was no evidence of voter fraud in 2004 because McKay didn't investigate.

3) McKay didn't investigate voter fraud in 2004 because there was no evidence...

Posted by: Michael on May 11, 2007 12:06 PM

4. Isn't the Statute of Limitations about to expire this year on a lot of this?
Appears they are just running the clock...for whatever reason.

Posted by: Mr. Cynical on May 11, 2007 01:04 PM

5. I too wonder what actually occurred and why nothing was ever reported beyond the general comments from McKay.

Posted by: deadwood on May 11, 2007 01:38 PM

6. there we go with the use of the term "voter fraud"

in fact the issue at hand is much more than "voter fraud"

what we have here is institutional election fraud.

election fraud, not just voter fraud.

notice how the media keeps referring to this as just "voter fraud" like the only issue might have been a few old nutbags forgetting that they voted twice.

Posted by: daveo on May 13, 2007 12:03 PM

7. David, you really ought to pour gasoline on yourself and light it in protest.

Really.

Lies, the fact is that right now, the democrat-led Congress has an approval rating of 35%, no matter how much you spin the numbers.

And your hypocrisy reeks: If you wanted ALL the crooks locked up, you'd be howling for the scalps of Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy (Patrick and Ted) and Jefferson.

Unfortunately, you're not all THAT special: actually, you’re just another self-delusional a leftwing whackjob (Like ol’ Dave, here.) who sees himself as a legend in his own mind.

Posted by: Hinton on May 14, 2007 07:34 AM