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 due to "provisional ballots" ..In Seattle's King county there are a total of 3,539 more ballots for Governor counted than there are registered voters who voted in the county. King county is a Democrat ruled county, which managed to discover enough new ballots in the course of the second and third recounts to finally put Democrat Christine Gregoire in the Governor's office.There may well be an explanation why the numbers of voters and ballots are still so far apart two months after the election -- especially in a precinct full of transients, unknowable overseas voters and illegal registrants. But the explanation will have to be a very good one. The canvassing board certified the vote count three times, with the countywide ballot total increasing every time without explanation. At none of these certifications did the canvassing board seem to care whether or not the number of voters reconciled with the number of ballots. This would seem to be willful ignorance, perhaps criminal negligence. If that is what happened, a number of "public servants" need to be fired, recalled and/or prosecuted.
UPDATE: A solution to this foul smelling mess may have been found -- ReVoteWA.com. It worked in the Ukraine.
Posted by Greg Ransom
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