New Year’s Day: Manual recount precinct canvass reveals 684 precincts with more voters than ballots and 725 other precincts with more ballots than voters, for ~1,512 ballotless voters and ~4,593 voterless ballots. Out-of-state press disrespects Rossi’s call for a fair election. Precinct 1823 has 71 more ballots than 272 voters who cast them, the largest discrepancy between ballots and voters in all of King County. Nearly all of the discrepancy is due to "provisional ballots".
Jan. 2: Irreconcilable accounting discrepancies in King County: willful ignorance or criminal negligence?
Jan. 3: Three precincts sharing polling place in Issaquah [2602, 3464 and "Gilman"] have total number of voting voters noticeably exceeding number of ballots counted. The Press continues to drag its feet.
Jan. 4: Two absentee votes were cast by Dustin S OCoilain, whose address is listed as a homeless shelter and the KC Admin building. Several of the largest counties have huge unexplained discrepancies, for a total of 8,400 more ballots than voters. Seattle P-I says “What’re ya gonna do?”
Jan. 5: 348 provisional voters
improperly put ballots directly into vote-counting machines at polling
places:
once entered, there is no way to separate them. In direct response to this,
Gregoire says: “The idea of a redo I find to be absolutely ludicrous.”
Two
deceased voters are
discovered, as well as
52 felon voters. In response, Berendt
sends out a letter calling this the “most
accurate election in state history.”
Jan. 6: Two private citizens file election contests. BIAW investigators find 7 felons who voted in Snohomish County. Revotewa.com collects close to 150,000 petitions.
Jan. 7: King County Prosecutor, thanks to SoundPolitics tip, will charge double-voter. Dino Rossi and WSRP announce they will contest the election, and file suit.
Jan. 8: Rossi campaign shares its legal basis for the contest.
Jan. 9: Yet more documented dead and felon voters. WSJ reports on judge who registered at KC admin building, claiming Mexican mafia is out to get her.
Jan. 10: King County’s reported discrepancy of 1,217 voterless ballots, is off by 600 votes. A King County employee blows the whistle. Gregoire thanks MoveOn.org for their help volunteering to round up affidavits.
Jan. 11: Concerned citizens rally for a re-vote in Olympia. Stefan Sharkansky delivers great speech. KC Elections confirms that the unaccounted-for votes are indeed “around 1,800.”
Jan. 12: Inauguration Day. Legislature scheduled to issue certificates of election to new office holders. Large majority of Washingtonians support a re-vote.
Jan. 13: The case for throwing out the gubernatorial election appears legally airtight. BIAW finds 76 more felon voters.
Jan. 15: Democrats suggest that purging rolls of felons is a bad idea. 35 voters are recorded as registered after 10/18 (the deadline), all of whom voted provisional on Nov. 2, but these were backdated in the database.
Jan. 16: Sec of State Sam Reed admits to King 5’s Robert Mak: “It's still hard to tell... the variables are such that it's hard to say for sure exactly who won.”
Jan. 17: Jefferson County auditor Donna Eldridge says the huge discrepancy in King County is anomaly, no good explanation for it.
Jan. 18: Secretary of State agency rule mandates no certifications on elections unless the number of ballots matches the number of voters.
Jan. 20: Deadline for any registered voter to file a lawsuit challenging the results of the election. Posted by Brian Crouch at January 20, 2005 11:59 PM | Email This