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June 06, 2005
Washington Governor
A judge in Washington ruled that Washington's governor's race will stand. Even though it looks like there were 1,678 illegally cast votes in a race that was decided by 167 votes, the judge held that because the plaintives could not prove who the illegal votes were cast for the elcetion had to stand. This did not mean the judge agreed with how the elcetion turned out as he thought it was a very poorly run election, but it was up to the voters to fix this. I kind of see how the judge reached his decision even though it is pretty obvious that Gregoire did not get more legal votes than Rossi. When you have voting officials as corrupt and incompetent as those in Washington then it is impossible to know who really won. The catch 22 in this situation is that the judge wants the voters to fix the problem of crooked elections, but the crooked elections prevent the voters from fixing the problem. For more see Michelle Malkin who included this quote:
"It's not who votes that counts, it's who counts the votes!" - Josef Stalin
Sound Politics has more as well with Jim Miller predicting more distributed vote fraud:
And that's the most infuriating thing about distributed vote fraud. That it has changed the results of some elections is certain, but it is almost impossible to prove that it did so in any given election. By disconnecting the people who commit the fraud (mostly individual voters) from those who benefit from it, distributed vote fraud makes it almost risk free to both groups. For that reason, I expect it to increase in future elections, unless we change our laws and our election officials — beginning with King County executive Ron Sims.
Posted by Pete at June 6, 2005 08:28 PM
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