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“Houdini Ballots” in Washington Raise Questions
By Matt Margolis | December 17, 2004
How convenient it must be for Democrats that more ballots have magically appeared in recent days — from Seattle’s heavily Democratic King County.
With Washington state in the middle of a recount of its amazingly close governor’s race, election officials in Seattle’s King County entered a warehouse Friday and found a plastic tray containing 150 misplaced ballots.
The discovery brings the number of belatedly discovered ballots to 723 in the heavily Democratic county - potentially enough to swing the election to Democrat Christine Gregoire.
Republican Dino Rossi won the Nov. 2 election over Gregoire by 261 votes in the first count and by 42 after a machine recount of the 2.9 million ballots cast. On Thursday, with every county except King, Pierce and Spokane reporting, Rossi had pulled ahead by 74 votes.
Like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat, the Democrats are really trying hard to trick everyone. “We want to get some answers about these very suspicious ballots,” said Republican State Party Chairman Chris Vance.
Topics: Dem Watch |
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