Title: Judge Blocks Count of Mystery Ballots!
IGotMailYAY - December 18, 2004 01:45 PM (GMT)
I am as shocked as you are! The Democrats thought they'd be able to steal this election easily!
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041218/D871QQNO0.htmlsnip:
A judge Friday granted a state Republican Party request to block the counting of hundreds of recently discovered King County ballots in the governor's race, which the GOP's candidate is winning by just a few dozen votes.
Even if the election workers wrongly rejected the ballots - 150 of which were discovered Friday - it is too late for King County to reconsider them now, Pierce County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Arend said.
The issue of the ballots could prove pivotal: With all but King County finished with a hand recount,
Republican Dino Rossi was leading Democrat Christine Gregoire by 50 votes.
From reading state law and state Supreme Court decisions, "it is clear to me that it is not appropriate to go back and revisit decisions on whether ballots should or should not be counted," Arend said.
Italics added for emphasis.
earthmother - December 18, 2004 02:18 PM (GMT)
ALGOREismylife - December 18, 2004 04:43 PM (GMT)
Leave it to the republiTHUGS to come up with that, they as usual don't want to count the votes. Counting ALL the votes is not stealing an election, the republiTHUGS are the THIEVES.
ap215 - December 18, 2004 05:03 PM (GMT)
You watch they're gonna steal this one for Rossi because they don't care and those judges in WA who made those decisions they're gonna hear from us. Terrible.
GSC Admin - December 18, 2004 06:06 PM (GMT)
The problem is that Rossi will not be elected if
all the votes are counted. Here is a story from CNN that backs that up:
http://s8.invisionfree.com/Al_Gore_Support...?showtopic=1551
earthmother - December 18, 2004 06:35 PM (GMT)
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| The problem is that Rossi will not be elected if all the votes are counted. |
Sounds just a little too familiar, don't it?
earthmother - December 18, 2004 06:46 PM (GMT)
You're missing the point, IGMY. The missing ballots ALWAYS show up in Dem. counties, same as what happened in Florida in 2000. Get it? And do you really believe for even one nanosecond that if uncounted ballots showed up in a Rep. county, the Repugs wouldn't demand that they be counted?
ALGOREismylife - December 19, 2004 12:39 AM (GMT)
I hate to think that there is voter fraud in the state of Washington, but it seems like the republicans are rigging and stealing elections everywhere, and I for one are fed up with it. Damn, when will it stop???
earthmother - December 20, 2004 02:08 PM (GMT)
After all the noise Dems have made about having all the votes counted, I seriously doubt they'd publicly object if Rep. votes were found uncounted. They're not stupid, ya know. The only reason they'd object is if the Dem. votes weren't allowed to be counted but the Rep. votes were.
Garden Stater - December 21, 2004 06:41 AM (GMT)
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| And do YOU really believe that the democrats would allow those repubulican county ballots to be counted once found? Oh have I got a bridge to sell you!!! |
Garden Stater - December 21, 2004 01:25 PM (GMT)
Nice dodge, i don't know why you find directly answering any of my obviou questions so dangerous.
to see where I got the picture of the polling machines in that lady's living room (the black and white grainy pictures) go to the link below
http://www.votergate.tv
Garden Stater - December 21, 2004 01:27 PM (GMT)
And why is it so difficult to understand what statistics with the labels Exit Polls:Kerry Bush Election Results: Kerry Bush mean?
earthmother - December 21, 2004 01:51 PM (GMT)
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| You say we should have paid attention to the exit polls here. |
Exit polls tell all. After what happened in Florida in 2000, the networks said they weren't going to rely on exit polls anymore because they were obviously inaccurate. Well, guess what? In 2004, they used them again. You know why? Because they realized they were quite accurate after all. Exit polls in Florida in 2000 showed that Gore won the state. That's what the early predictions on election night of Gore winning the presidency were based on. But then the actual numbers didn't support that win, at least that's what it looked like on election night. But we now know that the exit polls DID match the real numbers. Tens of thousands of people in Palm Beach County THOUGHT they'd voted for Gore but had instead punched in for Pat Buchanan because of the poorly-designed butterfly ballots. Tens of thousands of other Floridians DID vote for Gore but didn't have their votes counted. So the exit polls were right. Gore won Florida, and Gore won the presidency. But for some reason a different person is occupying the White House.
The bar graphs that GS has posted show that similar things happened this year. Exit polls showed that people had voted for Kerry by a large margin. But isn't it strange that the actual tallies end of on their heads? Yes, it's VERY strange. Too strange for words. :rolleyes:
Garden Stater - December 21, 2004 07:56 PM (GMT)
Exit polls have been accurate more than %99 of the time before 2000 and 2004. I don't know why you keep dodging my questions, I keep reading your responses thinking I didn't explain what I was trying to convey clearly, but then I look back at my own posts and see that I was pretty clear.
Despite your constant stance that Republicans don't steal elections and that the 20% of U.S. citizens that no longer have faith in our electoral system (Zogby poll) are just crazy liberal conspiracy theorists, you don't even know what a discrepency between exit polls and results mean?
I find your posts to show intelligence and I find it hard to believe that you really don't understand my questions.
So I ask are you dodging my questions or are you lecturing us on reality without even knowing the facts?
earthmother - December 21, 2004 08:01 PM (GMT)
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| I don't know why you keep dodging my questions, |
He keeps dodging your quetsions because he can't answer them. :rolleyes: Classic conservative response.