A reader with intimate knowledge of King County's mail ballot operation e-mailed to comment on my report yesterday that Dean Logan sat on the GOP's challenges of mail box voters for an extra week, which was long enough to allow 40% of the challenged mail ballots to be processed before the challenges could be adjudicated:

What makes this interesting is that last Spring when they were removing felons, they immdiately suspended the absentee record and put a challenge code in so that they couldn't process them when they were returned. They did this to the suspected felon list without any research. By waiting a week, they knew what would happen. DIMS has a very easy solution to the suspend/challenge process. All you need to do is put either their voter registration number or absentee number into a text file ... You then go through the Wanda upload utility and upload all those numbers and it will ask you for a code to put them in. You tell the system you are suspending these ballots and the reason code would be voter challenge. If they had already returned the balllot they could have gone to those batches and looked to see if it was indeed processed..