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Pierce had vote foul-up, too
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| Media | Newspaper - Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| News Date | Saturday, April 23, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | If misery loves company, beleaguered King County elections workers may be pleased to know that their counterparts in Pierce County ran into problems of their own handling pesky provisional ballots in the 2004 election.
Republican Dino Rossi is suing to overturn his 129-vote loss to Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire in the gubernatorial election, and the GOP has directed much of its legal and rhetorical fire at mistakes by the elections department in King County, where Gregoire outpolled Rossi by 150,000 votes.
Among those errors, King County Elections Director Dean Logan has acknowledged that close to 660 provisional ballots were tabulated without undergoing the required verification of the voter's registration. Republicans say new information shows that number is even higher.
In a filing this week in the Rossi lawsuit, which goes to trial May 23 in Chelan County, Pierce County officials owned up to 164 unverified provisional ballots in their vote count.
Provisional ballots are issued to voters at polling places if their names do not show up on the rolls there. The provisional voters are supposed to mark their ballots and place them in envelopes, on which they write their names, addresses and signatures for later verification of their right to vote.
But that system breaks down if the voters feed the ballots directly into vote-counting machines, which both King and Pierce counties install in individual polling places. Once counted, the provisional ballots can't be distinguished from other ballots. |
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