WA Republicans say they found voting discrepancies

[Viva_La_Revolution]

SEATTLE - State Republican Party leaders say they've found 8,400 more ballots cast than the number of voters registered in the state's five largest counties.
State GOP Chairman Chris Vance says the mismatching numbers in King, Pierce, Snohomish, Clark and Kitsap are troubling.

Republican Dino Rossi won the first two counts in the governor's race, then lost a hand recount to Democrat Christine Gregoire by a mere 129 votes.


MORE - http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=73847

[xultar]

Ummmmm So..... I wonder if the MSM will report on this story. n/t

[AZCat]

1. Let's see how much coverage this gets in the MSM...

Anybody want to guess what the lead story on Fox News tonight will be?

:eyes:

[Rainscents]

2. ROSSI won't...

stop winning!!!

[BringEmOn]

8. Shouldn't that be "whining?"

[Rainscents]

15. Yes, I meant... Whining!!! LOL

[shraby]

3. Probably were

Republican ballots, too. :eyes:
Maybe he should be the one to pick out which ballots to toss?

[BlueFlu]

4. So? Democrats found more ballots cast for Shrub

in several counties than there were registered votes, and the GOP didn't think that was any big deal...

[bullimiami]

5. no shit jerks this happened all over the country

but you dont care unless it affects your republican asses do you.

i

hate

republicans.

[bluestateguy]

6. Hey Goopers, remember this line:

"You lost! Get over it!"

[rodeodance]

7. te he

[Renew Deal]

9. Sore Losermen

:nopity:

[fob]

25. I believe the correct term in this case is "Sore Lossiman"

[gratuitous]

10. Gee, it's too late the deadline for legal challenges has passed

Bummer Dino.

[catlawyer]

26. I wish that were true ...

... unfortunately, an election challenge can be filed up until the 22nd http://www.secstate.wa.gov/office/news_docs/recount/MFQ%20on%20Election%20Contests.pdf

:argh:

[merwin]

27. An election challenge won't go anywhere. Gregoire won :-) n/t

[gratuitous]

28. I stand corrected

We'll see, however, if Rossi actually contests the election. So far, all I've seen is a lot of grandstanding without any substantive legal arguments for invalidating the election. Maybe he's playing it close to the vest, but I doubt seriously whether the element of surprise is going to work against someone who used to be the state attorney general.

Arriverderci, Dino.

[merwin]

29. Anything he brings will be a baseless claim, since the election in WA

and both recountes were conducted in an apparently fair, open, honest, and transparent mannar.

Simple as that.

Also, I know it was conducted fair becuase the Republican Secretary of State is getting blasted from all directions by the Republican party :-) That means that he was trying to be fair, and there's nothing more that the Republican party hates than a fair election.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

11. "Sore Looserman" Dino Rossi needs to understand that.....

Christine Gregoire will be the Governor of Washington State for the next four years.

Get over it you worthless bum!

[Mike Niendorff]

12. This story is horribly misleading.

Note the last line :

"County officials have said it typically takes a while for election results to be reconciled with voter registration records."

That's the "fine print" to this claim.

Sam Reed (WA SoS) was asked about this during his news conference the day he certified the results, and he was very clear: the results the Republicans are relying on to make this claim are *partial* lists that the larger counties have not finished compiling yet. Of course, they won't tell their supporters that. But, in all fairness, their supporters probably don't care anyway. After all, if they cared about facts, they wouldn't be Republicans.


MDN

[rsmith6621]

13. Funny How.............

Non of the Seattle are newspapers or TV stations are not reporting this YET.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

14. What do you mean?

[Cocoa]

16. "Conspiracy theories flourish, etc etc."

that was how claims of election fraud were invariably reported when it was dems doing it.

[librechik]

17. don't stop them--Republicans could give conspiracy theorists a good name!

after all, we only found this sort of thing only 100 fold FOR BUSH in the other states!! And guess what? We were right too!

[maxsolomon]

18. election CERTIFIED by GOP sec. of state

too late - too bad - GET OVER IT.

[merwin]

19. READ the whole article! The republicans are relying on PARTIAL lists

to make this conclusion. Reconciling the lists usually takes a couple months after the end of the election, due to provisional ballots, etc.

[gratuitous]

23. Gosh, KATU being a bit fast and loose with the facts?

Who would've guessed? I mean, considering their political commentary in the last five years has ranged from the rabid, frothing at the mouth right (Lars Larson) to the know-nothing, empty-headed kook right (Ron Saxton), I can't imagine why they'd stick a misleading headline on a story like this!

Tom McCall is rolling over slowly in his grave.

[DELUSIONAL]

20. GOP is pissed because their dirty tricks didn't work this time

I guess they didn't pay the vote hackers enough money?

So funny that the GOP is whining about count the vote.

The religious right thought that this time they had managed to select a candidate who could pass as normal. Rossi's primary ads were effective -- he almost sounded like a moderate coming from a working class background etc.

The previous GOP candidates were extreme -- Craswell is a real nut case right wing religious right. But then I suspect that a whole lot of Dems crossed over and voted for her in the primary -- Locke beat her easily in the General Election.

The GOP will keep trying to scam the election and find someone who wears a "normal" mask.

What the old Washington State Republican party needs to do is take back their party from current religious right wing nuts.

The dems gained a whole lot of really good people -- former Republicans who were tossed out by the religious fanatics now in control of the GOP.

[merwin]

22. Agreed. More Republicans like Sam Reed and they might become honest

[Rockholm]

21. Too Bad. Election Over. Move Along.

[trogdor]

24. It would be ironic...

...if it were found that the surplus votes were due to their own damned ballot-box tampering. D'oh!

[Downtown Hound]

30. Heheheh, I'll tell you what Repukes...

You can have the Washington governor's seat if we can have the presidency that we've now rightfully won twice in a row. Deal?