Sherril Huff launched her campaign for Elections Director with this claim:Under Huff's leadership, King County Elections received a national award for its mail ballot reconciliation efforts in 2006. Huff's team used Fortune 500 quality assurance standards, which revolutionized elections to...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 26, 2009 09:55 AM
I finally received this Provisional Ballot Final Summary Reconciliation Report from the November 2008 election which was presented to the canvassing board at the certification meeting on Nov. 25. I compared the numbers with the source database records from the...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 23, 2009 06:06 PM
Washington state gives voters many choices. I just voted on a slew of candidates, including judges, and a slew of issues. Not all of the choices are of great interest, so I will just tell you about the more important...
Posted in Sound Politics on November 4, 2008 02:27 PM
Mail-only voting. Many, perhaps most, of the problems in the 2004 scandal were specifically attributable to vote-by-mail. Unfortunately, Sam Reed's main pretense at "reform" was to lead the charge for mail-only voting, only expanding the potential for future problems. It's...
Posted in Sound Politics on October 25, 2008 03:33 PM
By now everyone should know that ACORN has submitted thousands and thousands of bogus registrations in many states, in multiple elections. Some of the false registrations are laughably false, such as the one in Florida for Mickey Mouse. (Here are...
Posted in Sound Politics on October 21, 2008 02:04 PM
In 2004, I argued that we had a growing problem of distributed vote fraud, vote fraud committed not by a party or candidate, but by individual voters, mostly operating independently. I argued that a party could increase the amount of...
Posted in Sound Politics on October 2, 2008 11:03 AM
Today I had lunch with John Fund of the Wall Street Journal and about 200 other supporters of Evergreen Freedom Foundation. John has recently updated his book Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud threatens our Democracy with new material including Washington's...
Posted in Sound Politics on September 29, 2008 07:39 PM
Bumped from Saturday morning, because Gregoire's spurious behavior on the same topic two election cycles in a row says a lot about the woman who wants to be Governor again. - Eric Christine Gregoire's recent foray into stem cell research...
Posted in Sound Politics on September 22, 2008 06:56 AM
A year ago fired U.S. Attorney John McKay was being lionized by the mainstream media for supposedly resisting partisan political pressure to conduct a baseless investigation into Washington's 2004 gubernatorial election. The media accepted as settled fact McKay's insistence that...
Posted in Sound Politics on March 24, 2008 12:03 PM
The Tacoma News-Tribune's Peter Callaghan rips into Secretary of State Sam Reed's propaganda: "Mail-only voting resembles one big scheme"It took them a decade to do it, but state and county elections officials have made Washington an all-mail state through a...
Posted in Sound Politics on November 6, 2007 03:10 PM
Three ACORN workers have pleaded guilty in what the Seattle Times charitably calls the "biggest voter-registration fraud scheme in Washington history". An even bigger scam was when King County created 10,000 duplicate registrations in 2004, allowing several people to vote...
Posted in Sound Politics on October 30, 2007 05:41 PM
Dino Rossi's campaign has video of his kickoff speech yesterday in Issaquah up at his website DinoRossi.com He also premiered a feature, TellDino.com where private citizens and public employees can give ideas about how to better goverment or to express...
Posted in Sound Politics on October 26, 2007 02:03 AM
This summer I filed a criminal complaint about the "fatal pends" incident where King County unlawfully counted 170 provisional ballots from unregistered voters in Nov'04 and covered it up. [Detailed complaint correspondence, here ] But Dan Satterberg wouldn't investigate. Not...
Posted in Sound Politics on October 25, 2007 04:09 PM
Pierce County is now joining King County and mounting a criminal investigation into voter registration fraud apparently committed by ACORN last year. A couple of related things I still find intriguing. 1) The involvement of ACORN/Project Vote in the illegal...
Posted in Sound Politics on July 22, 2007 03:19 PM
Australian shepherd Duncan MacDonald is still registered to vote, and owner Jane Balogh, who registered Duncan as a protest against lax voter registration standards, will take her protest to court:Balogh last week said she planned to plead guilty. She changed...
Posted in Sound Politics on June 29, 2007 11:08 AM
As mentioned earlier, King County Elections wanted to convince more voters to vote by mail usingFlyers featuring VIPs who are converting to VBM which we can hand out at special events, booths, public meetings, etc.We also found several well-connected people...
Posted in Sound Politics on May 29, 2007 01:37 PM
Here's my wrap-up of my interview with John McKay, the recently fired Seattle U.S. Attorney. After his speech to the Mainstream Republicans, the (relatively) liberal wing of the state GOP, he spent nearly an hour answering questions from a small...
Posted in Sound Politics on May 23, 2007 12:08 PM
Here's a partial transcript of John McKay's interview with bloggers and newspaper reporters at the Mainstream Republican conference yesterday. Complete audio here. [13MB]. (Other participants and their reports listed here. Audio of McKay's breakfast speech to the conference audience, here)....
Posted in Sound Politics on May 21, 2007 05:34 PM
Congressman John McKay (R-Seattle). How does that sound to folks? Me? I think I kind of like it. Before you all go thinking I'm doing another one of my lousy parodies, just wait. The story is in the Seattle P-I...
Posted in Sound Politics on May 17, 2007 01:24 AM
AP: "Gonzales: McKay's handling of 2004 election raised "concern"" Attorney General Alberto Gonzales acknowledged today there was a "great deal of concern" in some quarters about former U.S. Attorney John McKay's handling of election-fraud allegations during the 2004 election in...
Posted in Sound Politics on May 10, 2007 02:30 PM
Coming up for a vote in the House: SB 5566, which would prohibit copying of voter signatures (ballot envelopes, poll books, etc), thereby enabling election officials to cover-up their misconduct. For example, it would prohibit me from exposing the hundreds...
Posted in Sound Politics on April 10, 2007 11:02 AM
Today the House committee passed (party-line) a substantially worse version of SB 5566 , now prohibiting the copying not only of mail ballot envelopes, but also other voter signatures. Ranking Republican Rep. Bruce Chandler's amendment, which would criminalize misuse of...
Posted in Sound Politics on March 30, 2007 03:10 PM
The House State Government & Tribal Affairs Committee meets Friday morning at 8:30 and has scheduled "possible executive session" for SB 5566 - "Providing for privacy protection for certain voter registration information" This bill's main purpose is to allow elections...
Posted in Sound Politics on March 29, 2007 09:45 PM
Thanks to the many readers who e-mailed me about today's Washington Post op-ed "The Myth Of Voter Fraud". It's written by Michael Waldman and Justin Leavitt of the Brennan Center, which with ACORN recently tried to overturn a Washington state...
Posted in Sound Politics on March 29, 2007 01:40 PM
Danny Westneat today writes that John McKay was fired for being too honest. Westneat praises McKay for heading the Legal Services Corp. under Clinton and defending the agency from partisan Republican attacks. (Westneat neglected to note that McKay's LSC was...
Posted in Sound Politics on March 25, 2007 10:32 AM
Back in 2005, John McKay insisted he couldn't comment on any possible investigation into allegations of fraud in the 2004 election, yet at the same time he was only too eager to announce he was conducting a different investigation. From...
Posted in Sound Politics on March 16, 2007 10:41 AM
The story about former U.S. Attorney John McKay's performance on the 2004 election is growing. It has national significance as Attorney General Gonzalez is under increasing criticism. Today's Seattle Times : "GOP chair called McKay about '04 election" The Wall...
Posted in Sound Politics on March 14, 2007 03:50 PM
Today's Seattle Times reports that John McKay insists that there was no evidence of election crimes in Washington's November 2004 election. Granted, he appears to have relied solely on what the Republican legal team presented in the contest trial. And...
Posted in Sound Politics on March 13, 2007 11:43 AM
Former U.S. Attorney John McKay is complaining that Congressman Doc Hastings's aide asked him about his apparent unwillingness to investigate allegations of fraud in the 2004 gubernatorial election. McKay should have (but didn't) investigate King County's illegal counting of provisional...
Posted in Sound Politics on March 7, 2007 12:35 PM
The AP reports:More than 176,000 names were removed from the state's voting rolls last year under a new statewide voter database that was developed to help counties find duplicate registrations and dead voters, Secretary of State Sam Reed said today.The...
Posted in Sound Politics on February 20, 2007 05:02 PM
Former Seattle U.S. Attorney John McKay was forced to resign, the Times reports:John McKay, the former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington, said he was ordered to resign in early December by a senior official at the U.S....
Posted in Sound Politics on February 7, 2007 03:53 PM
No, really. It doesn't happen very often, but it does happen. The unusual case of an Oak Harbor woman accused of feloniously filling out her daughter's absentee ballot and signing it was settled with a plea bargain in Island County...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 30, 2007 01:45 PM
The King County Canvassing Board certified the 2006 election yesterday (l-r Asst. Superintendent Garth Fell, Board members Councilmember Julia Patterson, Interim Elections Director Jim Buck (Jimron), Prosecuting Attorney Chief-of-Staff Dan Satterberg) This election wasn't perfect, but looks much better than...
Posted in Sound Politics on November 29, 2006 01:53 PM
Horsesass David Goldstein has publicly outed and named a Seattle resident and published how that individual voted on his secret ballot during last September's primary election. In his most recent post he dumps on Tim Borders of SEA 43-2064. The...
Posted in Sound Politics on October 7, 2006 07:06 PM
ACORN is in the news again: "Allegations trip up voting rightsfraud group" Philadelphia's municipal voter registration office has rejected about 3,000 cards submitted by ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- since April because of missing...
Posted in Sound Politics on October 5, 2006 03:54 PM
The Columbus Dispatch reports: Workers paid by [liberal Democrat voter registration group ACORN] to register voters in Franklin County [Ohio] have turned in more than 500 forms with nonexistent addresses and potentially fake signatures, elections officials said yesterday ... Elections...
Posted in Sound Politics on August 13, 2006 11:23 AM
As noted earlier, a federal judge issued an injunction to prevent the state from verifying driver license and social security numbers before accepting a voter registration. The ruling is here. It hinged on this:The Court finds that plaintiffs have adequately...
Posted in Sound Politics on August 4, 2006 01:55 PM
King County Council Chairman Larry Phillips has a guest op-ed in today's Seattle Times: "Done right, vote-by-mail will improve county elections". The flip side is that "Done wrong, vote-by-mail will cause the wrong people to get 'elected'". One can only...
Posted in Sound Politics on July 13, 2006 01:23 PM
UPDATE: The County Council approved forced mail-voting on a party line vote, 5 Democrats YES, 4 Republicans NO. Most of the Republican amendments similary failed 4-5. My running liveblog commentary from the gallery is in the extended entry....
Posted in Sound Politics on June 19, 2006 01:52 PM
Jason Osgood has a great post below about the P-I's weekend editorial in favor of forcing everybody to vote by mail. Be sure to read Jason's post. A few more comments about the P-I's editorial -- First, a note of...
Posted in Sound Politics on June 12, 2006 07:48 PM
And no, the headline does not refer to our bungled governor's election. Various local left-wing bloggers are working themselves into a blather over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s article in Rolling Stone this month alleging that the Republicans stole the 2004...
Posted in Sound Politics on June 3, 2006 01:01 PM
Today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial on the Secretary of State's voter database is wildly incorrect "Voter Registration: House cleaning" Secretary of State Sam Reed's office has just completed an exhaustive compilation of state voters and purged more than 55,000 registrations across...
Posted in Sound Politics on May 16, 2006 10:55 AM
I recently spoke off-the-record with a King County Councilmember who is still undecided on Deanron's proposal for mail-only voting. The criteria on which said member will decide are: "Security first and economics second". Security is a no-brainer: votes can be...
Posted in Sound Politics on May 10, 2006 11:59 AM
Larry Phillips wants you to believe that The King County Council continues its ongoing work to restore public confidence in the elections process this coming Monday, May 8, with a briefing on an election “Action Plan” and creation of an...
Posted in Sound Politics on May 7, 2006 10:43 PM
I've been slogging through the King County voter registration transaction logs that Deanron finally released this month, more than six months after I requested them. Among the things I've discovered -- up to 24 more people credited with voting twice...
Posted in Sound Politics on April 17, 2006 05:12 PM
Joel Connelly, the contumelious liberal columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, has 4 people registered to vote claiming residence at his 737 sq. ft cabin on Whidbey Island. These registered voters are: Connelly himself, Virginia Snyder, who Connelly informs me is...
Posted in Sound Politics on April 10, 2006 01:27 PM
Even if they haven't paid off court-ordered fines, felons would be able to vote, under a ruling made yesterday by King County Superior Court Judge Michael Spearman. Spearman has previously distinguished himself by excusing an alleged quadruple murderer from trial...
Posted in Sound Politics on March 28, 2006 08:14 AM
Today's headline in the Northwest Indiana Times: "Dozen more charged in 2003 [East Chicago] elections" The Lake County Vote Fraud Task Force has filed 56 felony charges against 12 people linked to voter fraud in the 2003 Lake County primary...
Posted in Sound Politics on March 22, 2006 05:29 PM
SB 6362 just passed the Senate 47-1. The bill is a substantial improvement over the existing registration and challenge statutes, and a huge improvement over the first version of the bill that passed the Senate. The requirement for the challenger...
Posted in Sound Politics on March 8, 2006 02:15 PM
The King County Council will receive a briefing this morning on the "Status of King County Elections". Two groups will brief the Council -- the Elections Center, which conducted the $300,000 fraudulent audit last year, and the "Citizens Election Oversight...
Posted in Sound Politics on March 6, 2006 08:23 AM
There's more to say about Sam Reed's Dumb E-mail from an Elected Official explaining why he directed his people to lobby against HB 2526, which would have allowed citizens to challenge the redundant registrations of a multiply registered voter. Reed...
Posted in Sound Politics on February 27, 2006 04:28 PM
The state Senate this week passed SB 6362 "Modifying voter registration provisions", which both (a) makes it harder for a citizen to challenge an improper voter registration, and (b) creates some new legal safe harbors for vote fraud. 14 Republicans...
Posted in Sound Politics on February 15, 2006 05:01 PM
During this week of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we celebrate the accomplishments of Dr. King and his colleagues in the civil rights movement to secure voting rights for all Americans. We may also reflect how some today seek to...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 17, 2006 11:26 AM
As mentioned previously, SB 6362 "Modifying voter registration provisions" was introduced by Senate Democrats Kohl-Welles, Keiser, Jacobsen and Kline in order to make it difficult if not impossible for citizens to file legitimate challenges against fraudulently registered voters. There's much...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 14, 2006 05:34 PM
Mrs. Gregoire1 has followed my lead and endorsed Dwight Pelz for state Democratic chairman In a joint letter to party central committee members, Gov. Christine Gregoire and Sen. Patty Murray said Pelz "stands out" in the field. "Dwight will come...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 13, 2006 11:46 AM
And another thing on today's Times article "2004 election controversy still hounds Gregoire". The reason the controversy over the tainted election still sticks is because Mrs. Gregoire's performance in office has been controversial and divisive. Even though she campaigned promising...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 8, 2006 02:34 PM
We read in the P-I last week that "King County elections gets good report on Nov. 8 vote". Sadly, that's more of a reflection on the shoddiness of the Election Center's report than it is on the quality of King...
Posted in Sound Politics on December 28, 2005 04:10 PM
And if our urban media weren't so dense in the first place, the biggest story of the year would be that there really was organized fraud in the 2004 election and not that some hick judge was fooled into thinking...
Posted in Sound Politics on December 21, 2005 03:55 PM
The problem of voters registering at bogus addresses seems to be more pervasive than I ever realized. Here is a spreadsheet of King County addresses where individuals are currently registered at commercial address. There are over 5,000 such registrations on...
Posted in Sound Politics on December 21, 2005 12:32 PM
Retiring King County Councilman Dwight Pelz has announced his candidacy to succeed Paul Berendt as chairman of the Washington State Democratic Party. At the risk of spoiling his chances, I hereby endorse Councilman Pelz. Pelz's two most notable achievements in...
Posted in Sound Politics on December 14, 2005 12:32 PM
After five months of public records requests, I finally have some answers on the mysterious claim made nearly a year ago by King County Elections that Staff confirmed ... 251 federal write-in absentee ballots were tabulated. These represent validly cast...
Posted in Sound Politics on December 12, 2005 01:21 PM
The Washington State Democrats are defending the "rights" of the illegally registered mail box voters to commit election fraud. David McDonald, attorney for the WSDCC, asserts that a private mailbox is a legitimate "non-traditional" address, like maybe the voter really...
Posted in Sound Politics on November 15, 2005 05:20 PM
On the first anniversary of the bungled (and yes, fraudulent) 2004 election, we pause to honor the man who in all likelihood would now be serving as governor -- if Dean Logan hadn't screwed it up and then covered it...
Posted in Sound Politics on November 8, 2005 01:17 AM
Here's the wrap-up of the astonishing story of politically-motivated official election fraud under Ron Sims and Dean Logan, its ongoing cover-up, and the failure of the local newspapers to report what they know about the scandal. On February 8th I...
Posted in Sound Politics on November 7, 2005 12:46 PM
Buried in yesterday's news reports about the expected termination of mail ballot supervisor Nicole Way were these tidbits -- P-I: Logan's move to fire absentee-ballot supervisor Nicole Way comes after an independent investigation into blunders by his staff ... The...
Posted in Sound Politics on August 31, 2005 10:59 AM
This is a substantially rewritten and expanded version of Saturday's post on the topic of "Federal Write-In Ballots" for unregistered voters. Based on newly obtained documents, it now appears that there were enough problems with the federal write-ins that the...
Posted in Sound Politics on August 23, 2005 01:00 AM
The King County Canvassing Board, which illegally certified the November 2004 election, will have a new member this fall, Democrat Councilman Dow Constantine (D-CAO). Constantine replaces retiring Councilman Dwight Pelz (D-Havana), pictured above as Chico. Constantine's most distinguished contribution...
Posted in Sound Politics on August 18, 2005 11:56 AM
The Ron Sims "independent task force on elections" seems to be less interested in figuring out how to fix King County's disastrous management of the November 2004 election than it is in serving up statewide policy recommendations for unrelated and...
Posted in Sound Politics on July 16, 2005 09:30 AM
Back in February I reported on a tip from a reader who wrote that a family member who is legally incompetent and living in a Lynnwood nursing home had voted by mail last November. we found out my wife's' uncle...
Posted in Sound Politics on July 5, 2005 10:36 AM
A reader posted an intriguing comment yesterday that argued with some credibility that King County Mail Ballot Supervisor Nicole Way must have perjured herself when she testified in the Chelan County trial last month. [see the comments at this post...
Posted in Sound Politics on June 15, 2005 12:09 PM
The Washington State Democrats are asking for their money back -- plus 12% interest: But the Secretary of State’s office only wants to pay the party about 2 percent interest on the $730,000 the party deposited with the office to...
Posted in Sound Politics on June 9, 2005 12:38 AM
A round-up of post-mortem opinion on the election debacle and ineffectual court decision * Today's P-I published one of the few sensible editorials it has published in the last two years, ironcially headlined "King County: Leading to excellence" Can Dean...
Posted in Sound Politics on June 8, 2005 10:48 AM
RCW 29A.84.720 Officers -- Violations generally. Every person charged with the performance of any duty under the provisions of any law of this state relating to elections ... who willfully neglects or refuses to perform such duty, or who, in...
Posted in Sound Politics on June 7, 2005 04:13 PM
Those who have read my posts since the election know that I am nearly certain that fraudulent votes gave Christine Gregoire her narrow margin in our governor's race. But I also said, in this post, that I was not sure...
Posted in Sound Politics on June 6, 2005 01:16 PM
Judge Bridges has ruled against the plaintiffs and let stand the results of the 2004 governor's election. He did not accept the use of proportional deduction and did not find fraud either by the election workers or the parties. So,...
Posted in Sound Politics on June 6, 2005 09:52 AM
I had been so focused on the phony reconciliation of absentee ballots that I had forgotten about the specific WAC for poll site reconciliation until Harry Korrell cited it in his closing argument. Reconciling and reporting the results to the...
Posted in Sound Politics on June 4, 2005 05:04 PM
King County elections supervisor Linda Sanchez is in the hot seat again. (initially the comfy chair of Hamilton's questioning). Linda Sanchez is in charge of the canvassing crew. Croker Sack says that Sanchez doesn't seem to understand the purpose of...
Posted in Sound Politics on June 2, 2005 09:10 AM
A reader posted this comment to my "Nixon Impeached, Resignation Expected" entry of late last night. It's worth displaying more prominently: Regardless of the outcome of the trial, Handy Nixon's testimony today revealed the most appalling set of actions of...
Posted in Sound Politics on June 1, 2005 06:34 PM
Mail ballot supervisor Nicole Way is now on the witness stand. It just occurred to me that the two slackers who created the fraudulent Mail Ballot Report are named Way and Garth. Once we get headshots of Nicole Way and...
Posted in Sound Politics on May 25, 2005 09:18 AM
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports "Setback for GOP in governor election trial": Republicans suffered a major blow today to their late-developing strategy to claim fraud in the 2004 governor's race when a judge said that claim cannot stand as a key...
Posted in Sound Politics on May 23, 2005 05:22 PM
If idiocy could be measured on a scale of 1 - 10, Friday's P-I editorial goes up to 11: "Governor's Office: One judge, one vote" In a trial set to begin Monday in Wenatchee, state Republicans will in effect ask...
Posted in Sound Politics on May 19, 2005 10:16 PM
I recently had the pleasure of meeting George Howland, Jr. of the Seattle Weakly. He's a pleasant enough fellow, but his article on the election contest this week is one of the silliest things yet put to paper on the...
Posted in Sound Politics on May 19, 2005 06:48 PM
The Republicans are now alleging that outright fraud occurred in King County in the November 2004 election. The Democrats can't defend Ron Sims' indefensible Elections office, so, as usual, they're making stuff up: "It seems like the Republicans are scrambling...
Posted in Sound Politics on May 18, 2005 01:27 PM
Here are some quotes from Gonzaga University Law School Professor Stephen Sepinuck (left) upon presenting the school's Law Medal to Secretary of State Sam Reed: Seven months ago, Secretary Reed found himself at the center of a political maelstrom. As...
Posted in Sound Politics on May 9, 2005 10:39 AM
Dean Logan, in his deposition, finally gives credit where credit is due. p. 32 Q Okay. So you use signatures from poll books to credit individuals with voting? A To credit the individuals whose names are listed in the poll...
Posted in Sound Politics on April 29, 2005 02:01 PM
The U.S Attorney's office in Seattle issued this statement in response to public calls for an investigation into King County Elections: Under the long-standing Department of Justice Election Day program, federal law enforcement officials receive and evaluate any complaints of...
Posted in Sound Politics on April 27, 2005 10:45 PM
Washington state's junior senator is up for re-election next year and is said to be in trouble politically. That's why Joni Balter of the Seattle Times wrote this campaign ad for Cantwell. Balter (and most likely others in the...
Posted in Sound Politics on April 25, 2005 08:24 AM
Here's yet another indication that election officials commited fraud in the November election. Dean Logan admitted in his deposition on Monday that he knew that provisional ballots went into the Accuvote machine before he certified the election. Never mind the...
Posted in Sound Politics on April 22, 2005 10:42 AM
As expected, the Democrat-controlled state House of Representatives passed, over Republican objections, bogus "election reform" measures that will only make it easier to commit and get away with election fraud. Rep. Toby Nixon issued this press release today: Voters can...
Posted in Sound Politics on April 15, 2005 12:38 PM
From the 2000 election debacle in Florida, the term "hanging chad" entered the lexicon. In the King County election debacle 2004/5, we get the term "batch slip". A batch slip is a small slip of paper that is used to...
Posted in Sound Politics on April 13, 2005 12:56 PM
According to Dean Logan of the King County Elections Department some 700 missing ballots from the 2004 Governor's Election were found in the belly of a shark that was caught in Elliott Bay close to polling places. Logan stated, "While...
Posted in Sound Politics on April 1, 2005 11:49 AM
In spite of all the troubling irregularities that keep surfacing about King County's handling of the November election, I've been reluctant to allege that county officials committed fraud. Certainly I've never seen evidence of, say, actual ballot stuffing. But in...
Posted in Sound Politics on March 28, 2005 12:05 PM
Here are some files from the King County archives that illustrate how different the situation with provisional ballots was in 2004 vs. the 3 general elections before Dean Logan came on board. 1) "Special Ballot Summary Reports" (provisional ballots used...
Posted in Sound Politics on March 17, 2005 01:01 AM
The state legislature has passed two insane pieces of legislation that are advertised as "election reform", but in reality will serve to institutionalize and encourage election fraud: SB 5499 (bogus identification requirement and bogus reconciliation requirement) and HB 1754 (mandatory...
Posted in Sound Politics on March 16, 2005 11:06 AM
I've revised my analysis of the King County vote discrepancy, based on some slightly improved source data files. The differences from my earlier analysis are minor, but this does represent the best analysis based on the data that King...
Posted in Sound Politics on March 4, 2005 12:16 PM
Now that King County has acknowledged that crediting is an essential part of the ballot-counting process and by implication that its explanation of the 1,800+ discrepancy between ballots and voters is no longer operative, let's see how the story about...
Posted in Sound Politics on March 2, 2005 12:00 PM
The latest Woodinville Weekly seems pretty skeptical of the King County Elections report. It quotes at length both Councilmember Kathy Lambert and Rep. Toby Nixon offering their doubts about King County Elections and closes with this reaction to Ron Sims'...
Posted in Sound Politics on February 18, 2005 12:45 AM
I attended this morning's press conference with King County Executive Ron Sims and Elections Director Dean Logan. It was an attempt at whitewash and it backfired. Big time. Another nail in the coffin not only of this disastrous election but...
Posted in Sound Politics on February 9, 2005 12:08 PM
Snohomish County Auditor Bob Terwilliger filed this declaration (under penalty of perjury) in Borders v. King County: Petitioners allege that Snohomish County election officials “counted votes in excess of the number of lawfully registered voters that participated in the election.”...
Posted in Sound Politics on February 2, 2005 12:20 PM
(This brief post, which made some skeptical remarks on a study of electronic voting in Snohomish county generated many comments, including some attacking the study, and some in defense of the study by one of the authors, Paul Lehto. One...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 31, 2005 03:54 PM
The voter database has been updated: 1) Grays Harbor, Jefferson and San Juan counties have been added. Nearly 2/3 of Washington voters who voted in November 2004 are now listed! More counties to be added soon. 2) I've expanded the...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 31, 2005 11:37 AM
Battles are rarely won on one field alone. Dr. Arthur Coday, the physician from Shoreline who filed a private contest of the gubernatorial election, is asking us to add our voices to his. A citizen's push for a new election...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 17, 2005 03:14 PM
While doing the previous post, I ran across this very clear example of what I have begun to call distributed vote fraud. The New York Daily News found last August that 46,000 people were registered to vote in both Florida...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 12, 2005 02:56 PM
Nearly all informed political observers would say yes. In his book on vote fraud, John Fund is apologetic about mentioning that, because he wants to make a general argument. Here's how he begins the discussion: A note about partisanship: Since...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 12, 2005 12:59 PM
While sorting through old newspapers I found this column on Washington state's disputed gubernatorial election by the executive editor of the Seattle Times. Since it was printed December 26th, others besides myself may have missed his request for help: Instead...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 10, 2005 06:59 AM
From Rossi campaign: “[T]he right of suffrage can be denied by a debasement or dilution of the weight of a citizen’s vote just as effectively as by wholly prohibiting the free exercise of the franchise.” Gold Bar Citizens for Good...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 8, 2005 02:30 PM
Two weeks ago here, after Christine Gregoire pulled ahead in the Washington Governor's election with a second recount, I wrote that Dino Rossi and his backers should promptly marshall strong evidence for a challenge, or stand down. Well it took...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 7, 2005 05:09 PM
As I noted briefly this afternoon, I've found some discrepancies that are in some ways more serious and unexplainable than the ones I reported last night here. I consider this to be a smoking gun -- not for fraud...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 4, 2005 12:53 AM
How many local journalists deserve them for their coverage of the disputed Gregoire-Rossi gubernatorial election? Not many, at least not many that I have seen. Maybe I am too harsh a grader. I would fail any journalist who says "count...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 3, 2005 04:40 PM
The King County Elections scandal, along with its many other disturbing facets, is a kind of an accounting scandal, not unlike Fannie Mae or Enron. Because the numbers simply don't add up. After three "certified" vote counts, the numbers...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 2, 2005 11:35 PM
Reader Brian Thomas forwarded us the following very detailed letter describing his experience as a recount worker. Click extended entry to read the whole thing. Such confidence of a "no vote" should mean a "vote of no confidence," in this...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 2, 2005 04:52 PM
Seattle's Precinct 1823 counted 343 ballots, which is 71 more ballots than the 272 voters who cast them. This is the single largest discrepancy between ballots and voters in all of King County. Nearly all of the discrepancy is...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 1, 2005 03:48 PM
With nothing else to write about on the first day of the new year, the Washington Post experiments with condescending finger-wagging. (Eh, what's that? They do it all the time?): Such an idea [revoting] may work to resolve a close...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 1, 2005 01:34 PM
Happy New Year to one and all! Just want to let long-term readers know that Washington's "generally well-conducted laughingstock election" is getting a lot more national attention, especially Shark's discovery of the King County ballot total/ registered voter total discrepancy....
Posted in Sound Politics on January 1, 2005 09:49 AM
That's what Tom Bevans of that invaluable site, Real Clear Politics, thinks Republicans in Washington state need before challenging the election of Christine Gregoire. Republicans need to tread lightly here. They should only go to court if and when they...
Posted in Sound Politics on January 1, 2005 08:43 AM
December 2004 Dec. 1: Democratic National Committee (Gregoire) sends out “Action Alert” with poor math: “Only 42 votes separate my Republican opponent and me. That's a difference of 0.0014 percent. The error for voting machines is somewhere between...
Posted in Sound Politics on December 31, 2004 11:59 PM
The Seattle P-I is misfiring on all cylinders today. They begin a calumny masquerading as an editorial by exposing fatal ignorance: Absolutely preposterous. Dino Rossi's call for a rerun of the governor's election has no basis, at least so far.And...
Posted in Sound Politics on December 31, 2004 02:51 PM
Dino Rossi's invitation to Christine Gregoire to join him in asking for a revote was a brilliant move and may well be remembered as the tipping point of this contest. The smart thing for Gregoire to have done would have...
Posted in Sound Politics on December 30, 2004 02:48 PM
In 1995, Republican Congressman Bob Dornan, who had represented two different Southern California districts, starting in 1976, decided to run for president. He had great fun for about a year, but spent most of his campaign funds and neglected his...
Posted in Sound Politics on December 29, 2004 12:55 PM
I've now sent Public Disclosure Requests to the elections departments of King, Snohomish and San Juan counties asking for the following information: a list of all X County voters who submitted ballots in the Nov. 2, 2004 election. This list...
Posted in Sound Politics on December 28, 2004 12:27 PM
Because it is almost certain that Christine Gregoire's 130 vote lead in Washington state's governor's race comes from what I have begun to call "distributed vote fraud", I thought I should review the concept. The ideas behind distributed vote fraud...
Posted in Sound Politics on December 28, 2004 07:56 AM
Before the election, I argued many times that the widespread use of absentee ballots was an invitation to fraud. There is nothing original in that argument; anyone who examined cases of vote fraud for a year or so would come...
Posted in Sound Politics on December 27, 2004 05:56 PM
In case you're wondering how trivial of a matter it is to commit vote fraud, here are some simple instructions. Any dummy can do this, and you'd be a dummy yourself if you think that this doesn't already happen often....
Posted in Sound Politics on December 27, 2004 02:41 PM
Nothing. At least nothing in public at this time. His Christmas message already said all that needs to be said: “I know many Washingtonians are hoping this will end soon, but I’m also sure that people across this state want...
Posted in Sound Politics on December 25, 2004 10:53 PM
Crunching the data in the King Ukraine County voter registration file, I came across precinct SEA 37-1823, or simply Precinct 1823, located in downtown Seattle between Elliot Bay and I-5 near the James St. exit. Precinct 1823 has 763 registered...
Posted in Sound Politics on December 22, 2004 11:26 AM
Yesterday I obtained a copy of the latest King Ukraine County voter registration file (updated Nov. 1) so I could learn more about the 573 allegedly disenfranchinsed magical mystery voters. Here are just the first things I've discovered. There...
Posted in Sound Politics on December 21, 2004 12:19 PM
Today's article in the Seattle Times, describing how ballot checks vary in Washington's counties, has some numbers that, indirectly, support my rough estimates on the amount of "distributed vote fraud" in Washington state. (Unfortunately, the table containing the numbers does...
Posted in Sound Politics on December 19, 2004 08:14 PM
When we think of the Ukraine County Elections office, we think of the recent fiasco involving the 400 rejected provisional ballots corrected by weeping Democratic party officials, the 717 surgically enhanced haruspex ballots and the 336 magical mystery ballots that...
Posted in Sound Politics on December 19, 2004 12:25 PM
From a Republican friend who's been observing the festivities at the Ukraine County manual recount in Tukwila: Today, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2004 marked the completion of the sorting of all absentee ballots into their proper precincts (except for those mis-sorted)....
Posted in Sound Politics on December 14, 2004 07:10 PM
All right, I am being sarcastic, but consider some recent history. Nearly all of the problems in Florida during the 2000 election occurred in counties with Democratic election boards, counties with long histories of mismanagement and fraud. And now we...
Posted in Sound Politics on December 14, 2004 11:53 AM
In this post, I described the problem of "distributed vote fraud" and in this following post, I gave it that name. (If you missed those posts, what I mean by "distributed vote fraud" is the illegal votes cast by...
Posted in Sound Politics on December 9, 2004 08:28 AM
The Gregoire/Kerry/Muckleshoot campaign is now threatening to sue every last one of us unless all of the previously disqualified ballots are counted again. Then again, you know that they'll still sue every last one of us if Gregoire loses for...
Posted in Sound Politics on December 2, 2004 11:21 PM
The SoundPolitics.com Timeline of Events in the Washington Governor's Race Compiled by Brian Crouch November 2004 Nov. 2: Election Day. Gregoire leads by 7,000, less than 0.6% votes -- with about 88% counted. Many combat troops ballots were...
Posted in Sound Politics on November 30, 2004 11:59 PM
As Seth notes below, John Fund asks in today's WSJ Opinion Journal "Will Democrats steal the Washington governorship?" Well they're certainly going to try. I heard on KUOW this morning (can't find any report on line) that Gregoire will definitely...
Posted in Sound Politics on November 29, 2004 12:30 PM
If you haven’t yet read today’s “John Fund on the Trial” column at OpinionJournal, you should do so now. Entitled “Florida Northwest,” Fund’s column describes our state’s gubernatorial re-count mess as “the latest example of why this country needs to...
Posted in Sound Politics on November 29, 2004 11:01 AM
That's what I would now give in Washington state's gubernatorial election — assuming there is a complete hand recount of the entire state. The margin after the first recount, 42 votes, is so small that it is easy to...
Posted in Sound Politics on November 24, 2004 03:26 PM
Double Flash (Wednesday 2pm). Kitsap came in exactly as expected. net gain of 34 for Gregoire, confirming Rossi's 42 vote victory. It's all over. Rossi won. It's time for Gregoire to concede. -- King County reported its results at 12:30....
Posted in Sound Politics on November 24, 2004 12:25 PM
A report from another friend who's been observing the King County vote count: At the end of the day Friday, November 12, the validation process was not complete at the 1st S facility, and the canvass board was still reviewing...
Posted in Sound Politics on November 16, 2004 11:07 AM
Ah, well. Win some, lose some. The Washington State Republican Party is wiping major egg of its face this a.m., with news that their challenger to erstwhile State Auditor Brian Sonntag has a long arrest record - and, if his...
Posted in Sound Politics on August 7, 2004 10:56 AM