I just stumbled across this one.
A King County Elections press release of Nov. 3, 2004, titled: "Absentee ballot count may tip scale on close races"
Surely they didn't know at the time just how presicent that title would be.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at April 10, 2005 06:17 PM | Email ThisFrom the press release:
"This election is not over until every ballot is counted," said Logan.
We just didn't know at the time how long that would be!
Posted by: JeanneB on April 10, 2005 06:55 PMIt seems these days that any and all new taxes are welcome by Olympia, where CG (remember she was the no new tax candidate with a campaign web page claiming she had never raised taxes before on the people of this state, but she carefully listed any and all occurences of Rossi's tax votes. Well did you know they are squabbling over whose 10% - 12% spending increase over current budget to accept:
The Governor, the Senate, and the House have each proposed their own budget plans for the 2005-07 biennium. Here is a brief look at how their budgets compare.
GOVERNOR: $329 million in new taxes and revenue, for $25.8 billion in total spending (10% increase over current budget).
SENATE: $476 million in new taxes and revenue, for $26.03 billion in total spending (12% increase over current budget).
HOUSE: $507 million in new taxes and revenue, for $26.09 billion in total spending (12% increase over current budget).
So Stay tune: Besides no real election reform, and a huge proposed 9 to 15 cent per gallon gas tax increase (with gas already over a punishing $2.35 a gallon) which will punish individuals, businesses & truckers alike.
Here are a few other things the democraps are planning:
SB 5069 - Mandated five weeks of paid leave.
SB 6078 - Gutting I-601 and lowering the bar for
raising taxes from a two-thirds vote to a simple majority.
SB 5160 - Prohibiting use of hand-held cell phones in cars.
HB 2303 - Gregoire's death tax reinstatement and
cigarette tax increase bill
HB 1397 - Tying Washington to California's
emission standards
HB 1458 - Requiring septic tank inspections by
local health departments
HB 1379 - Opening some state liquor stores on
Sundays to raise extra taxes
HB 2069 - Putting the state-run health care system in direct competition with private insurers; a Gregoire-requested "small business assistance" bill that small businesses formally
oppose
HB 1282 - Stopping schools from teaching only
abstinence-based education
HB 2255 - Undoing the positive changes the
Legislature made to the state unemployment insurance system in 2003
SB 6096 - Gregoire's death tax reinstatement and
cigarette tax increase bill (companion)
Read em, weep (cause "it'll just keep costing you more), then call your representatives (I use this term very loosely) and tell em what you think!
If you don't know who your representatives are find out at:
http://www.leg.wa.gov/DistrictFinder/Default.aspx
If you want to see how they are voting, look on:
http://www.washingtonvotes.com
They have never met a tax they didn't like, and It's gonna cost ya big time!
PS: Shark you did a great job as usual with Robert Mak! Keep up the great work!
"This election is not over until every ballot is counted,"
(job well done on the "Up Front" interview, Shark! ;'}
Posted by: alphabet soup on April 10, 2005 09:47 PMThis one was perhaps our first sign that something was really wrong, when they delayed the daily ballot count report on Nov. 16. If only we had known then what has been discovered since.
When the report came out for Nov. 16, it didn't include the cumulative total of absentee ballots counted and didn't show any additional absentee ballots received since the previous report. Supposedly, another 2,042 absentees had been returned since Nov. 13, but no mention of them was made.
That delay on Tuesday before the Wednesday certification deadline and the missing data from the delayed Tuesday report are hints that Logan's gang knew their numbers weren't adding up.
When they released their report on Nov. 17, they omitted the cumulative total of absentee ballots counted, the total of absentee ballots returned, and any information to identify how many of the 1446 ballots counted that day were either absentees or provisionals.
Logan's deposition ought to be interesting, if the petitioners have examined the numbers closely. He may look more like a goat than a prophet.
Posted by: Micajah on April 10, 2005 09:53 PMTheir math (although Sims seems to think any bank would be proud of it) stinks, phueeeee!
The Queen B---H (Tax and Regulation happy B) is about to be de-throned! Thank goodness!
I think she should be deposed, or better disposed!!
Washington MUST put a halt to this *All Mail* (Absentee) Voting system the Dems have just rammed down the our throats!
Aren't the citizens of this state just a wee bit suspicious as to WHY our Democrat controlled legislature rushed this absurd bill through? In light of what has happened during the November election?
Hello? Absentee voting is what caused - and...is....*still* causing our election to be a shamble! Why on earth would our state representatives suddenly conceive this idea to make the state a mandatory absentee voting state????
This must be stopped immediately! We cannot even consider such a voting practice until we clean up Novembers mess.....(and find all of the *still missing* (hidden) absentee ballots!)
Posted by: Deborah on April 10, 2005 11:47 PM"Seconds before Gregoire was introduced as "Her Excellency, Governor Christine Gregoire," Kirstin Brost felt a rush of panic.
"I started to get nervous the fire alarm would get pulled," said Brost, spokeswoman for the state Democratic Party. After a year of campaigning and 10 weeks of post-election turmoil, Brost could hardly believe it was actually happening."
What ever happened to crazy Kirstin anyway? She was always good for a laugh.
PS
......And yes, Deborah is right. Vote By Mail Fraud is their way to conceal those nasty "discrepancies, irregularities, errors and mistakes". It works for Oregon.
Lefty America is always wrong bomb thrower.
The "victory" is slipping away so HL has to get in the licks while it can.
REVOTE.
We are about to thrust the blade of truth into the dark heart of this evil, and she saids we look worried..? Brainless.
Posted by: Son of Liberty on April 11, 2005 10:39 AMI'd vote for you in a heartbeat. Gee,I'd probably get up off my fat absentee-ballot mailing butt and waddle to the polling booth to do it. And (although I'd like to think I don't resemble the person on my driver's license)in the interest of honest election reform,I'd even be willing to provide photo ID.
With the business climate in this state being what it is, it's good to keep your career options open. I think you could transition from software engineer to politician pretty seamlessly. It seems, from what I have observed, that employment in the software industry would be a great training ground for politics...
Posted by: PeggyU on April 11, 2005 10:48 AM
It always seemed odd to me how Gregoire was so confident during the 2 (slim) victories of Rossi. Perhaps it was overconfidence, delusions of grandeur...or maybe she knew something that we did not...after all a recount, is a recount of existing ballots cast...not an addition of ballots that someone found mysteriously in a decommissioned voting machine, stuck to their shoe, or in the bottom of their shower...
Those who did not verify signatures had been warned that if they did not follow through (w/signature verification), their vote would not be counted (this was a letter sent out by KC)...unverified provisional ballots are not supposed to placed in a machine until verification...yet they were...absentee ballots were either not sent out, were sent out twice to some, or sent out late, mystery ballots seems to be discovered daily (and in some cases appeared to be concealed)....shall we go on?
Some may call the above (and more) fraud...others may call this incompetence, but none can deny (including Logan and Reed per statements made to the media) that no one truly knows who won this election.
Posted by: flexnfx on April 11, 2005 01:26 PM