Sunday, May 22, 2005
King County (Seattle) Elections Supervisor Admits to Vote Fraud
The story in Washington State is that Downie Christine Gregoire, aided and abetted by Downtrodden officials, helped to engineer fraud and win an election that she plainly lost. That is a crime, and starting on May 23 the courts will hear the shocking details behind it. Now, an election official in King County admits that there was fraud in the balloting last November, and that she lied under oath when first questioned about it:
Election manager linked to false report
We can only hope that the judge listening to Republican Dino Rossi's lawsuit takes the honest road and throws last November's election out, and orders a new one for July. Gregoire, in office now (and lying and raising taxes as Downies usually do), is doing damage each day she holds an office she plainly stole.
The story in Washington State is that Downie Christine Gregoire, aided and abetted by Downtrodden officials, helped to engineer fraud and win an election that she plainly lost. That is a crime, and starting on May 23 the courts will hear the shocking details behind it. Now, an election official in King County admits that there was fraud in the balloting last November, and that she lied under oath when first questioned about it:
Election manager linked to false report
King County's absentee-ballot supervisor has testified that she collaborated with her boss when she filled out a report that falsely showed all ballots were accounted for in the November election.
Nicole Way said in a deposition Friday that she and assistant elections superintendent Garth Fell agreed to the misleading report because officials didn't know how many absentee ballots were returned by voters.
Way is the first employee to link an upper-level manager with a practice that failed to meet state ballot-auditing regulations.
The regulations require counties to reconcile the number of absentee ballots returned by voters with the number of ballots accepted or rejected. Way's report showed perfect reconciliation because it simply added the number accepted and rejected to calculate ballots returned.
Elections officials now acknowledge that dozens of absentee ballots were misplaced and the votes not tabulated during the November election. The ballots were never counted as accepted or rejected.
She said elections director Dean Logan and elections superintendent Bill Huennekens were aware that a newly installed computer was unable to give a precise count of ballots returned, but she did not suggest that they knew how the Mail Ballot Report was prepared.
We can only hope that the judge listening to Republican Dino Rossi's lawsuit takes the honest road and throws last November's election out, and orders a new one for July. Gregoire, in office now (and lying and raising taxes as Downies usually do), is doing damage each day she holds an office she plainly stole.
