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Wash. Official: Vote Errors 'Inadvertent'
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| Last Edited | None Entered Jun 01, 2005 02:02pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Wednesday, June 1, 2005 03:20:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The state's director of elections testified he does not believe there was anything significant or sinister in a discrepancies during last year's gubernatorial election, but a lawyer said an e-mail he sent in January shows he was siding with the Democrats.
Attorneys for the state Republican Party have presented evidence of illegal votes and other problems in King County, a Democratic stronghold, arguing that the election was stolen from GOP candidate Dino Rossi when Gov. Christine Gregoire won by just 129 votes in the second recount.
Attorneys for the state Democratic Party are arguing that election errors happened all over the state, not just in King County.
On Tuesday, as the trial on their dispute entered its second week, elections director Nick Handy testified he believes the problems in the election were innocent.
"I saw inadvertent mistakes and errors of human beings who were working their hearts out," Handy said.
He said he disagrees with his boss, Secretary of State Sam Reed, a Republican, who has called the problems in King County "appalling." |
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