December 20, 2004

THE DEMOCRAT MACHINE goes to work in King County. John Fund reports:
King County .. has now discovered "new" uncounted ballots nine times since Nov. 2 ..

[After certification of the first count of the vote in Washington with Repubican Dino Rossi leading statewife by 261 votes], the state began a mandatory machine recount of all ballots. But in King County the recount went beyond running the ballots through the counting machines. Officials there "enhanced" some 300 votes that had been rejected by the machines, in some cases altering them with white-out or filling in the ovals on the optical scan ballots .. these additional ballots benefited Ms. Gregoire .. At that point, with Mr. Rossi holding only a 42-vote lead, Democrats put up the money to pay for a third recount that would be conducted by hand, a process that most election observers .. view as less accurate than a machine count. It didn't take long for new ballots to be discovered ..

UPDATE: Lack of valid signature at the bottom of King county vote count dust-up. Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack