Democrat Certified Winner in WA Governor Race

Washington's secretary of state certified the result of the hand recount (the third count) in the governor's race, reversing the first two results -- which Republican Dino Rossi had won -- and making Democrat Christine Gregoire the election's second governor-elect, by 129 votes out of 2.9 million. The inauguration is January 12. Predictably, the two sides have switched arguments, too, with the Democrats saying Rossi should concede and the Republicans saying they have a duty to make sure the will of the people is followed. The next step may be an election contest, which could take months, and result in a court awarding the victory to a candidate, nullifying the entire election, or sending the matter to the legislature. Rossi is calling for the legislature to pass a special law calling for a new election, which would bypass a contest procedure.

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This probably isn't over.

[IO ERROR]

Don't worry, the Republicans will be sure to find some way to keep this going. All it takes is one registered voter to contest the election, but they have to present some sort of evidence or the court will throw them out. Watch as the Republicans pull a rabbit out of their hat...er, excuse me, a memory card with 200 Republican votes on it.

Re:As a Democrat...

[Profane MuthaFucka]

Right On. All those Democrats criticizing Al Gore for not hanging his hat up right away were just hypocrites.

Oops, those were Republicans criticisng Al Gore, and that's a cock in your mouth, along with your foot.

Democrats are vote-stealing hypocrites

[DesScorp]

To make matters worse, they're intentionally working to keep ballots from servicemen and women on active duty from being counted. And it seems there's more than the 129 vote margin out there being surpressed.
This Marine in particular is pissed about his vote not being counted.

Democrats scream their mantra of "count every vote"...until it looks like it will cost them an election.

Look up "Diebold" if you need a clue.

[khasim]

Stop making stuff up.

Hey, you might want to look up the company "Diebold" on this website called "slashdot.org".

Paperless audit trails.

Talking about delivering the election for the Republicans.

Diebold being sued by California.

And so forth.

Just because you don't like the FACTS does not mean that they aren't FACTS.

The Republicans are NOT pushing for better methods of voting.

"Sam Reed", eh? Maybe you'd like to look at this story http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0405/S00163 .htm

In the first pre-emptive lawsuit against voting machines filed by a candidate, Andy Stephenson -- a candidate for Washington Secretary of State -- has filed for an injunction to decertify Diebold GEMS central count software used in four Washington counties. The suit alleges that current Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed improperly certified the voting system. Stephenson is also suing King County over the use of uncertified optical scan software.

I know, it must really suck when your heros are found to be even more dirty than their opponents.

Keep counting until you win.

[deanj]

Why is it that it was the Democrat counties that always seem to have these "anomolies" in voting?

Happened in King County here, happened in 2000 in Palm Beach County in Florida.

What's the deal? Are they just manufacturing votes, or are they just honestly that stupid that they can't count everything correctly in the first place?

I think it's the first. They just kept counting and "finding" votes until they won.... Same thing they tried in Florida in 2000.

You can't deal with the facts.

[khasim]

You implied it by mentioning it in response to a discussion about Washington, and Republicans in Washington. Diebold electronic voting systems have nothing at all to do with anything I have been talking about. You decided to change the subject of voting in Washington state to some larger pet peeve about something marginally related.

No. You were complaining about how the Democrats were acting and I pointed out that the Republicans are not any better.

You want to restrict this to a sub-group in one state in one election. Not going to happen.

The Republicans have done nothing to improve the voting process. In FACT, the Republicans have happily endoresed the Diebold machines that don't even have a paper audit trail.

So, you can get all bent out of shape about the Democrats in Washington state, but all that shows is that it is all about partisan politics with you.

You are unhappy because your team lost.

NOT because of irregularities in the voting process, but just because your team lost.

NOT because the Democrats are behaving a certain way, but just because your team lost.

NOT because of anything other than your team losing.

You are behaving the same way that the Democrats did when it looked like they were losing. Because it is all about your team losing. Nothing else. No matter how you want to try and spin it.

Have fun in your victimhood.

You're lying. You gave a clear example of one person saying that Reed was blocking attempts to fix an alleged problem.

Yep. Typical Republican response. Just what I'd expect from you.

So you deny that Reed tried to get Diebold's own paperwork ruled inadmissable?

Well, that looks like you are the one lying because he did.

Companies have official statements made on its behalf by its officers. Those are said to be statements made by the company. That is what is meant when one says a company says something, as you did. This was not one of those statements, as it was not said on behalf of the company.

Now you're trying semantic games to get out of it.

So, in your world, it is only the "company" speaking when the owners/executives say something that they say is actual company policy...

But when the owners/executives say something, but don't say it is actual company policy, then it isn't the "company" saying it.

The company is the owners/executives. Adding on the phrase "official company statement" does not change anything, except in your mind.

Further, the initial statement was that Republicans do not trying to fix voting problems. Even if it were true that Reed was blocking attempts to fix voting problems in one case, that does not show that he is not trying to fix other voting problems.

Since you have been completely unable to provide a single substantiated instance where he did push to fix such problems, then the current count stands at:

Reed push to fix 0
Reed push to block 1

So you have one example that does not show what you say, and cannot prove what you hope. Yay for you.

It does show what I said. And it is the only example given so far about Reed's activities.

Because you do not want to believe the FACTS does not make them false (as you keep claiming with your "liar" comments).

All it does is show your partisan blindness and petty party loyalty.

You're mad because your team lost when they looked like they would win and the other team has, officially, been awarded the prize.

Instead of dealing with the problem of the voting system, you're going to whine about losing and call anyone who presents a fact you don't like, a "liar". Great. I hope that works for you.

For my part, I don't have time to deal with some fool who can't even present a single substantiation for his fantasies that he's swallowed, hook, line and sinker from his Republican demagogues.

Re:...been waiting four years to says this -

[Seraphim_72]

Spoken like a true Democrat, let us hope the State Supremes dont pick the winner "for the good of the Nation"

;)