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  Sims defends election system
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News DateThursday, February 10, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionKing County Executive Ron Sims has come out swinging at critics who have called the county's management of the contested gubernatorial election either incompetent or corrupt.

In his first news conference on problems with the Nov. 2 election, Sims yesterday said he will ask the County Council for money to create a "state-of-the-art" election facility and to improve worker training.

Sims defended Elections Director Dean Logan and said he was convinced the county "conducted the most accurate count humanly possible with the systems we have today. ...

"I am deeply disappointed that so many have sought to take political advantage of human error and turn it into baseless cries of fraud and corruption."
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