Grays Harbor County vote re-count expected to boost Gregoire

[Zorra]

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MONTESANO, Wash. -- Grays Harbor County will have to re-count all of its ballots because of a problem with a computer reporting system, The Daily World of Aberdeen reported Tuesday.

County Auditor Vern Spatz said the re-count will likely add to Democrat Christine Gregoire's total votes for governor.

Statewide, at last count, Gregoire was 158 votes ahead of Republican Dino Rossi, out of 2.8 million ballots cast. The deadline for counties to finish tallying ballots is Wednesday.

"We do not have to rescan them, we could just rerun the report, but we don't want to have anybody have any doubts about this election," Spatz said. "We're going to take the time and effort to rescan every ballot in our office and generate new totals. It takes away any question."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=WA%20Grays%20Harbor%20Re%20count

Huh? Another republican "glitch"?

[BlueStatesForever]

Anybody know of any "glitches" that favored Democrats?

Anybody know of even one single, solitary glitch that favored a democrat? Answer, they aren't glitches!

And BTW: As of 2:30, Gregoire was ahead by 196 votes. She's picked up 30 some vote today...It all helps ;-).

[bahrbearian]

1. I thought Grays Harbor would be a Rossi County.

[BlueStatesForever]

2. It is, but they double-counted some of the votes

So taking away the double-counts of votes favors Gregoire.

[bahrbearian]

3. Yes, I see ,I didn't read the Link.

[Zorra]

4. Holy sh*t look at this!

Governor's Race Takes 2 Twists
November 16, 2004
By KOMO Staff & News Services

GRAYS HARBOR COUNTY - The super-close race for governor took two new twists on Tuesday, as Grays Harbor County announced it is re-counting all ballots and the state Republican Party went to court to stop King County from counting some provisional ballots.

In the Grays Harbor recount, It looks like Christine Gregoire will pick up 508 votes after the county auditor ordered a re-count of all its ballots due to a problem with a computer reporting system.

County Auditor Vern Spatz said the ballots were counted correctly, but approximately 6,200 votes were counted twice because of human error while transferring data to the computer reporting system. The Aberdeen Daily World first reported the re-count on Tuesday.

Most of the results that were entered twice were apparently from east Grays Harbor County -- an area which is considered more Republican.

http://www.komotv.com/stories/34000.htm

[BlueStatesForever]

9. The other day Vance were saying

that Gregoire should give it up, that they've already beat her.

Now they're going to court. Sometimes I wish Democrats were as big of a*sholes as Republicans are.

[stevedeshazer]

5. Vern Spatz is a Democrat

http://www.co.grays-harbor.wa.us/archives/gen_2002/cntylst.asp

[Zorra]

6. Darn good thing or this "error" would have gone "unnoticed". n/t

[stevedeshazer]

7. Darn right!

[Zhade]

8. "We're going to take the time and effort to rescan every ballot"

Uh, question - are these optical scan ballots?

If so, couldn't anyone with backdoor access into the tabulator simply change the votes NOW to make it seem like the "glitch" favored the DEM unfairly?

If this is not a hand recount, WHY NOT???

[dArKeR]

10. I worked King County. I made zero errors in the final totals

though the other precenct workers' totals didn't always match our manual tally of the number of voters who went through our precinct. Everyone in our station did a great job. No one was bias. We helped all voters the same no matter if they wore a Kerry or Bush button.

Our precinct captain called the station closed at 8:00 pm then about 10 seconds later a guy walked in, wearing a Bush button. The captain said the station was closed. Every precinct worker, including me, stood up and protested and yelled, let him vote. Again the captain said the precinct was closed. One precinct worker yelled the wall clock was wrong. Another yelled if a voter is standing in line they cannot be refused. The captain turned her back and we checked him in and gave him a ballot. This incident really made me proud of America. But I don't think this would ever have happened in TX, FL or OH or any other southern state. They are a disgrace to America.

Back to the story. The last voter. Each voter, in WA, feeds their own ballot into what I coined the 'Black Shredder'. It was a Accuvote/Diebold machine system. The 'Black Shredder' kept kicking out his ballot so I went to help him and he asked for my help. He was in such a hurry he only made one thin black line in the box and the 'Black Shredder' wouldn't read it so he had to go back and darken his boxes.

Even the volunteer Democratic lawyer assigned to our station helped everyone equally.

It was a really good experience!

ps. I caught several of my workers make a few errors on provincial ballots. I can tell you for sure the Democratic lawyer caught more provincial errors than I did. If Gregoire wins she owes it to all the volunteer lawyers! This I'm 100% sure of!!

[mhr]

12. In Texas, No Political Pins Of Any Form Are Allowed In The Polling Place

The polling place is politically neutral.

[papau]

11. just rerun the report and Dem wins - so they'll do an even better job!

and rescan

now where did I put those Dem votes? whopsie?

oh well....


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