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Pierce County reveals uncounted votes
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| Last Edited | None Entered Apr 28, 2005 05:21am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| News Date | Thursday, April 28, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The votes of 50 Pierce County voters were mistakenly left out of the tally for the November election because workers overlooked ballots earmarked for machine tabulation, county Auditor Pat McCarthy said yesterday.
That election included the 129-vote victory by Democrat Christine Gregoire over Republican Dino Rossi in the governor's race, after a hand recount of more than 2.8 million votes statewide. The GOP is suing to overturn the result in a trial starting May 23 in Wenatchee.
The snafu in Pierce County was part of a widespread pattern of election foul-ups, state Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance said.
"It just leads to the conclusion that you can't have any confidence in the results of this election," Vance said.
"There were problems all over the state," Vance said. "The worst problems were in King County, but there were problems all over the state." |
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