Interesting...

[ravenmanifesto]

Upon seeing many of Dino's signs that state "Don't let Seattle steal the election!" and subsequently being very turned off, I decided to look up stuff on him. I want to get some official records but I also found this article fairly interesting:

Seattle Times/Dino RossiI'd like to check their sources

Comments

[moonshineray]

I'm voting for Rossi, Gregoire made a mess of things financially and I have never seen so many small businesses closed as when she was in office. Rossi's biggest thing is small business.

There was a LOT of argument about the recount last term.

Quote from CNN:
Republicans went to court to stop those votes from being included, arguing that their emergence was suspicious and that state law limited recounts to only those ballots that had been counted in the earlier tallies. But on Wednesday, the state Supreme Court ruled 7-0 that the disputed ballots should be added to the county's recount result.
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So the big thing was that the courts ruled to add new ballots to the recount 4 years ago which caused Gregoire to win over Rossi. Laws typically uphold the counting of existing ballots only, so it was considered very unfair by many. Before this recount Rossi was declared the Governor elect.

[ravenmanifesto]

It seems that missing votes is not an isolated event. I saw a similar incident on a CNN feed about electronic voting machines dropping votes but telling officials that they were recording them. I think this happened in Ohio and the governor called for a mass recount of ALL ballots and to move to all paper ballots for backup and accuracy. But her decision was shot down.

I would want to inspect the origin of the ballots and suspend the election until it was thoroughly investigated before making a call like that. If they were genuine, then I'd side with the court. Your vote is supposed to count for something.

[dsuursoo]

it's not that the votes were missing, but that they were actually disqualified, as i recall.

oddly, only democratically-favored ballots were pursued for requalification(a odd side effect of the party primary system we had back then).

the whole thing was really squirrely.

[ravenmanifesto]

I see. It could be seen in many ways, all of which are very conspiracy threoristy imho.

[dsuursoo]

oh yeah, it's a slippery slope. but it does look rather not cool. why not just go with the original ballots, hand recount?

wait, maybe we don't want pat buchanon...

/futurama ftw.

[ravenmanifesto]

^_^

[trillinon]

I was going to launch into the full thing, but then I realized that others have done it better:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_gubernatorial_election,_2004

What Gregoire did to get into office is not only more than shady, but cost the state of Washington over $700,000. Small change for a government, but it's still a couple of houses.