Interesting...

[ravenmanifesto]

Upon seeing many of Dino's signs that state "Don't let Seattle steal the election!" and subsequently being very turned off, I decided to look up stuff on him. I want to get some official records but I also found this article fairly interesting:

Seattle Times/Dino RossiI'd like to check their sources

Comments

[trillinon]

Listening to the attack ads back and forth between Gregoire and Rossi, I think we need to bring back dueling to keep politicians in line. These two make me sick with their constant lies, especially Gregoire. But she's proven that she'll do anything to get into office, what with the 2004 election recount stupidity.

[ravenmanifesto]

Eh? Recount? What?

I haven't done enough research on either to really make a decision so I don't know.

[dsuursoo]

it'd be nice to have a reasonable governer(financially speaking) in office.

hell, i've heard that even gary locke's dissapointed in her.

c'mon. 150+ million in indian casino money from the state that was declined.

and then she gets 600k in private campain contributions?

it just looks fishy, i'm sayin.

[ravenmanifesto]

What about the Indian money? I say let the Indians keep it.

[dsuursoo]

they offered it. to help the state out.

other states gladly take the money offered by the casinos.

the fact that the tribes gave her 600k in private money looks hinky to most folks. kind of like a payoff.

[ravenmanifesto]

Where are your sources on this? I'd like to check them out.

Sorry if I came off edgy, I get up in arms with Native affairs because 1. I am part Native and take it very seriously, 2. the whole sociologist thing.

[moonshineray]

I'm voting for Rossi, Gregoire made a mess of things financially and I have never seen so many small businesses closed as when she was in office. Rossi's biggest thing is small business.

There was a LOT of argument about the recount last term.

Quote from CNN:
Republicans went to court to stop those votes from being included, arguing that their emergence was suspicious and that state law limited recounts to only those ballots that had been counted in the earlier tallies. But on Wednesday, the state Supreme Court ruled 7-0 that the disputed ballots should be added to the county's recount result.
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So the big thing was that the courts ruled to add new ballots to the recount 4 years ago which caused Gregoire to win over Rossi. Laws typically uphold the counting of existing ballots only, so it was considered very unfair by many. Before this recount Rossi was declared the Governor elect.

[ravenmanifesto]

It seems that missing votes is not an isolated event. I saw a similar incident on a CNN feed about electronic voting machines dropping votes but telling officials that they were recording them. I think this happened in Ohio and the governor called for a mass recount of ALL ballots and to move to all paper ballots for backup and accuracy. But her decision was shot down.

I would want to inspect the origin of the ballots and suspend the election until it was thoroughly investigated before making a call like that. If they were genuine, then I'd side with the court. Your vote is supposed to count for something.

[dsuursoo]

it's not that the votes were missing, but that they were actually disqualified, as i recall.

oddly, only democratically-favored ballots were pursued for requalification(a odd side effect of the party primary system we had back then).

the whole thing was really squirrely.

[ravenmanifesto]

I see. It could be seen in many ways, all of which are very conspiracy threoristy imho.