1. See there is some good news! I can still vote and Ron can't just oss my ballot.

Posted by: Doug on January 7, 2008 08:31 AM

2. In the battle of incompetence vs. malfeasance, it's nice to see incompetence win out every now and then.

Posted by: TB on January 7, 2008 09:01 AM

3. Going the all mail in ballot reoutine will surely result in massive voter fraud. Leave it to the dems to keep on endorsing methods that encourage voter fraud in order to keep being elected. Lets hope that real sanity prevails that will require total re-registration of all voters...proving that they are indeed eligible to vote....and to provide picture id in order to cast that ballot. As long as the cost of getting birth certificate falls on the state, no one can ever say it will cost them money to re-register. Put all the dead people, criminals, etc on a central data base so local officials will know who is eligible to legally vote. Plus, no more drivers licenses to illegals at all. In fact, no more motor-voter registrations at all. The only way to ensure integraty in the electoral process is to put the hammer down on anyone who commits any kind of voter fraud. Also, require all new voter registrants to register at a local gov office....no more groups such as acorn, etc. Have early voting 30 days out at an assigned location, absentee ballots will be sent out to only those voters who will be out of the state r during the entire 30 day early voting period. Active duty military who are station overseas are exempt from this rule. Those military ballots must be mailed out at least 60 days prior to the election date. Military ballots cannot be tossed out for any reason except for not being filled out correctly, ie such as signatures not matching on the voter registration list. Ant time we allow illegal votes to be counted is another nail in the coffin of freedom in this great state and country.

Posted by: Allan Rothlisberg on January 7, 2008 09:04 AM

4. Good. The longer the better.

Posted by: RBW on January 7, 2008 09:51 AM

5. Hold on. If the mail-in vote were conducted earlier, then fraud and other issues would be caught earlier. Does this mean that it will possibly be used for the presidential election for the first time or will the vote be conducted after the presidential election? I think that some audit trails have to be built into the process.

Also, there has to be another vote for the elected head of elections in King County. What if any effect is there on this?

Posted by: WVH on January 7, 2008 09:59 AM

6. KCREALS probably could not find their way out of a paper bag if they were given a map. So this is welcome news.

It's also a plus for them, because if they need to take some of the provisionals from the still open polling locations and improperly count them, they can always turn to Bill Huennekens to get the job done, as they did in 2004.

We are an advanced and technological society. We have a lot of great security and convenience where it matters in private business such as banking, building security, internet commerce, etc. But when it comes to elections, our process and intentions are so broken, that it makes more sense to simply revert back to time tested, simple and secure polling techniques. The Iraqis have this right. Bring everyone to the polls, and dye fingers purple after they vote. Not quite as convenient as mail voting, but a heck of a lot more secure and reliable. Elitists will scoff, but the reality is that such measures assure accountable and secure elections. And KCREALS has proven that we are not so advanced as to be beyond the possibility of gross negligence and even willful miscounting and mishandling of ballots.

As long as government is involved in screwing up elections and awarding contracts to incompetent elections hardware vendors, etc. we are better off with the old school techniques. And it also will help insure that the people voting are the people that take it seriously, and not simply bussed in GOTV voters, who are making last minute decisions based on emotion and the politics of fear as preached by some Progressive.

Posted by: Jeff B. on January 7, 2008 11:12 AM

7. Speaking of this State' Graft and incompetance, did anyonone notice that our new US Attorney is taking on the Port Commission over the 100 million they wasted?

I heard yesterday that they spent somewhere between 250k and 1 mil installing art on the ends of the runways, next to the buffer zone that no one can enter, let alone ever see.

And they want more of your money to P away on these projects.

Way to go US Attorney.

Posted by: GS on January 7, 2008 04:24 PM

8. About that 1 million in art:

The original paperwork for the project shows that 1 million was budgeted for art on a concrete wall facing a forest that people can't trespass (to close to the runway) and so won't see any of it.

Sonntag's investigation found that the art really cost a quarter of that (250K). So Sonntag's people asked the port manager in charge where the additional ¾ of a million that wasn't spent went. His reply: "I don't want to know." Cute.

The port is one of the few (if only) in the nation that taxes directly from citizens. It also is the only port that can raise taxes without a vote or approval from elected officials. Most all other ports are fully self supporting not needing public money to operate. Certainly ports the size of Seattle's are all self supporting (Tacoma's is). If they can throw around this kind of money (and the other pay scams recently) they need to be taken of the public teat at the least and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law at the most.

I'm really tired of these self-serving crooks inhabiting public office.

Posted by: G Jiggy on January 7, 2008 10:46 PM

9. they're probably still in R & D in envelopes they can see through. Then KC can "lose" the appropriate ballots.

Posted by: PC on January 8, 2008 08:52 AM

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