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Friday, December 17, 2004
More "misplaced" ballots in WA Gov race
It makes you wonder just how all of these ballots drifted away...
No wonder the Republicans are suing to stop the counting of these ballots. To my previous point, I really do wonder how more than 700 ballots just don't get counted in a race decided by a couple of hundred votes. In another time I might be less skeptical, but given GOP shenanigans this year in Ohio and elsewhere, I no longer give the benefit of doubt to the theory that it was a mere accident.
With Washington state in the middle of a recount of its amazingly close governor's race, election officials in Seattle's King County entered a warehouse Friday and found a plastic tray containing 150 misplaced ballots.Link.
The discovery brings the number of belatedly discovered ballots to 723 in the heavily Democratic county potentially enough to swing the election to Democrat Christine Gregoire.
No wonder the Republicans are suing to stop the counting of these ballots. To my previous point, I really do wonder how more than 700 ballots just don't get counted in a race decided by a couple of hundred votes. In another time I might be less skeptical, but given GOP shenanigans this year in Ohio and elsewhere, I no longer give the benefit of doubt to the theory that it was a mere accident.
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