WA Governor Race Ends 119
Republican Dino Rossi decided last night to not appeal yesterday's decision by Chelan judge John Bridges to let last November's governor election stand -- the closest in U.S. history -- which keeps Christine Gregoire, who won by 129 votes after two recounts, in office. The Republicans claimed that fraud and mistakes far exceeded the difference between the candidates, and that statistical analysis showed Rossi might have received more legal votes. Bridges concluded there were thousands of incorrect votes and other major problems, but that the Republicans didn't meet the high threshold of proof that the result was incorrect. He also said he feared current law will make elections problems even worse, and urged the government and voters to work to fix the system.
Re:Here's an idea... (Score:3, Informative)
But the courts said "No Joy."
Bummer.
Re:Elections and Technology (Score:3, Informative)
Joy Luck Club (Score:4, Informative)
You can try to spin this (repeated) Republican defeat in attempting to take office through a court. But it's obvious that Rossi was doing everything he could, even things he couldn't, to take the Governor's office, regardless of the merits, or the damage to Washington. Of course politicians do anything to win, but we don't have to like it.
Now that both sides have been hurt in their war over shoddy state election work, maybe there's a mutual interest in fixing the system. Continuing to fight the war after its over will only get in the way of that more important work.
LIES (Score:5, Informative)
While he had stern words about how King County ran the election, Bridges said that even there, Republicans failed to show any intentional wrongdoing.
"While there is evidence of irregularities, as there appears to be in every election based on the testimony of various county election officials, there is no
Re:Joy Luck Club (Score:3, Informative)
Fraud.
And the coverup is sick. We do not live in a democracy anymore, because the vote counters are controlled by the local party in league with the vote counting corporation. That merger of state and corporate power is called "fascism" (Mussolini). Nationally, 80% of the votes are counted by 3 corporations, owned by Republicans, who even commit in public to delivering their local Electoral College ballots for their candidate.
Re:Joy Luck Club (Score:3, Informative)
So it is *you* who is lying, through the standard Republican "plausible deniability" tactic of willful ignorance. Everyone familiar with this ballot story knows about Councilman Larry Phillips' discovery, if they want to know any of the facts. But you obviously don't - as I have proven here. So it's no surprise that your Republican liar package comes complete with your baseless accusation of me, projecting exactly your own major malfunction onto me. Have fun with Gregoire: in 4 years, you'll have another chance to steal an election from the majority, and lie about it all you want. After all, it'll be all their fault, right?