Something positive from Washington recount!!

[elizm]

Ballots Wrongly Denied in Wash. Gov. Race

41 minutes ago Politics - AP



SEATTLE - The election director in Seattle's King County said Monday that hundreds of absentee ballots were mistakenly rejected in the heavily Democratic stronghold — enough to swing the close governor's race to Democrat Christine Gregoire.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&e=3&u=/ap/20041213/ap_on_re_us/washington_governor_s_race

[ohioliberal]

1. Hopefully something good.................

welcome to DU!!

[Guarionex]

2. well at least some good news...

but this aint' the big fish...I want Bush's head on a damned platter.

[ClassWarrior]

4. But another Dem governor ain't nuthin' to sniff at...

NGU.

[elizm]

11. Maybe OUR recount...

Will turn up sumthin' as good...:)

[elizm]

16. Maybe OUR recount....

Will turn up sumthin' as good! :)

[jean]

21. keeping governor's mansions across the country repub-free

is very important!

Especially regarding this WA guy - I don't want to see him run later for higher office with a governorship under his belt.

(hm, that is remindful of a former governor who is now #1 Bane)

[kuozzman]

3. OOOOHHHHH, MSM will report on a gov. race, but not prez? FUMSM

[roguevalley]

6. one head at a time, honey, one head at a time. :) good for Wash.

[LiberalAndProud]

5. Yaaaaaaay!!!!!! Governor Gregoire!

[henslee]

7. I saw that. Why is it that ballots that were put back in orig. envelopes

are the only ones that can be recounted? And for that matter, what determined whether or not an absentee ballot that was rejected was stuck back in an envelope or not stuck back in one. It was pretty unclear. I really wish they had commentators and color men during these CSPAN events... I bet they'd become wildly popular tv shows... sort of like those poker tournements.

[GetTheRightVote]

14. Sounds like a little Washington Fraud was going on too

:bounce:

We really need to get very angry at this abuse to us the voting public.

[senegal1]

26. I am an absentee voter from overseas. The envelopes are

important since they have the voters signature on it to show that this is really the same person as who registered.

[roguevalley]

8. Oh, and I remember how hard she had to fight to get money for

this from the deadheads in Washington, who were ready to walk away. All power to the people. Congrats, Washington state and all donors.

[Vodid]

27. Cost of recounts...

These recounts are incredibly expensive...why should the person who wrongfully lost a rigged election have to foot the bill to find the truth? I think both candidates should have to put the cost of the recount in escrow, and the loser has to pay the fees. Or some other method, but this hardly seems fair to financially bleed the candidate who ran an honest and winning campaign.

[spotbird]

9. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=150560&mesg_id=150560

[Straight Shooter]

10. All right :)

I hope all the recent events are leading up to a very, very big lump of coal in the GOP Christmas stocking.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

12. OOPS! Another little mistake in the Republicans' favor -nt

[jean]

22. What an amazing constellation of coincidences. Across the country, even.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

13. OOPS! Another little mistake in the Republicans' favor -nt

[satya]

15. But these ballots may not be counted

That's the case being argued before the WA State Supreme Court right now (2:30 PST); covered on C-SPAN2.

[satya]

19. Rossi kept his promise to unleash *'s lawyers on the WA state Dems

Mark Braden (of Baker & Hostetler, LLP) is arguing his case.

[chalky]

17. Okay, this little bit really ticked me off:

"King County Elections Director Dean Logan said he will ask the county Canvass Board on Wednesday to amend the results of the Nov. 2 election in his county.Agreement is likely; Logan has a seat on the three-person board, and one of the other members is a Democrat."

So that's the only way you can get democracy now?

[jamboi]

18. rate it up.

[WI_DEM]

20. that would be very good news

considering how democratic King Co. is. We have to fight for every vote.

[Sparky 1]

23. Woohoo!

Hopefully, this will cinch it.

[Diane L]

25. I will remain hopeful on this one...

[demo dutch]

24. I have word to say PAPERTRAIL!!!! It proves again that we can't

vote without it!!! How the hell do you do a recount without it! In Florida we can't even do a recount evenif it were as close as Washington.

[dogindia]

28. constant fraud everywhere

It is like the totally pervasive picking away in with small events yet ruthless consistant effort. I am just amazed. I bet it is all over the country.