King County identifies previously uncounted ballots

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King County Elections Director Dean Logan will ask the Canvass Board on Wednesday to amend the certified results of the November 2, 2004 General Election to include a series of absentee ballots wrongly rejected during the original canvas.


Approximately 561 absentee ballots were mistakenly rejected because the signature on the ballot did not match the original voter registration records. In fact, these were signed ballots where a signature was not on file in the county's voter registration system. Original registration records should have been retrieved to verify the ballot signatures.

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Logan said staff will retrieve the ballots, review past registration records for signature comparisons and present all valid ballots to the canvassing board on Wednesday, December 15. Logan said state law specifically authorizes the canvass board to amend the certification of an election when a discrepancy or inconsistency is identified in the original canvas.

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http://www.metrokc.gov/elections/news/2004_12_13.htm


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The results for the first count:



Governor

Christine Gregoire D 505243 57.75%

Dino Rossi R 350779 40.09%

Ruth Bennett L 18906 2.16%

Write-in 1240 0.14%

[eleny]

1. Fantastic news!

[kuozzman]

2. Complete BULLSHIT that partisan workers do signature comparisons

in the first place!

[yellowcanine]

5. Exactly right. It is absurd to expect people who have never been trained

in handwriting analysis to compare 2 signatures that may have been written by the same person years apart.

[barbaraann]

3. Wow! Wow! Wow!

And don't forget about the absentee ballots that were mailed out late in the 2002 election!

http://www.metrokc.gov/mkcc/news/2002/1102/KL_RMK_DI_voting.htm

[Us vs Them]

4. Keep in mind:

http://vote.wa.gov/general/recount_resultsbycounty.aspx

These are the results thusfar.

[okieinpain]

6. so with king count not included in your total, and her picking up

an extra 100 or so more votes then the repug, she would have a small lead. right.

[Us vs Them]

7. That depends on the outcomes of the other 'republican leaning'

Counties. King was a large victory, but the spread is too wide to call at this point.

Another point to add, which may or may not be related: 12 votes have already been subtracted from Republican and Libertarian parties that were not accurately accounted for Gregoire. So far no votes have been subtracted from the Democratic totals. This is suspicious to me and circumstantially supports the accusations that voting machine scanners are calibrated in favor of Republicans.

[kostya]

9. About 60 vote lead for Gregoire by my reckonin'

[maxsolomon]

8. come on king county!

lets impose our will!

pierce county we could use a little help, too. give "chris" some sugar!

[Union Thug]

10. this is very good news! We could still pull it off!

crossing fingers!

[pfitz59]

11. Just say "NO" to Dino-"saur" Rossi!

I'm sure Gregoire will ultimately win!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. There's a good reason why King County voted for Gregoire

It's not due to liberal Seattle. Seattle makes up only one third of the county's population. King County knows Dino Rossi because he's from there. Rossi campaigned as a moderate but if one believes that than they believe * is a uniter not a divider.