King County wraps up seventh day of vote counting

Seven days of vote counting? 1,037 additional absentee ballots counted today. I guess I’ll keep tracking the returns until the one day vote return total drops below the margin of victory from the last Washington Governor’s race.

US Postal Service Unions Pushing Vote-By Mail

This cartoon, used without permission but linked to Tom Tomorrow’s amazing cartoon website,  reminds me of the movement to privatize voting systems. First we had the private software, now to solve that problem the idea is to shut-down all the polling places by moving to vote-by mail (while still using the same privately controlled vote-counting software). A very bad idea followed [...]

798 More Ballots Arrive One Week After the Election…

This election just keeps going, and going, and going… And when we move to all forced mail voting next year in King County, during a Presidential election and another Washington State Governor’s race, well that could be a total trainwreck.
http://www.metrokc.gov/elections/abstats/default.aspx?eid=1219
If you are wondering what should be done to reverse this trend in elections, well first [...]

1 Week Later… Votes still coming in to King County Elections

Ok, it’s the Tuesday following election day, and 480 new votes arrived yesterday. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that greater than the margin of victory in the 2004 Governor’s race?

4th Day of Vote Counting brought to you by Vote-by Mail

Last Friday marked the 4th day of vote counting in King County, Washington. The King County Website proclaimed:
Ballot counting wraps fourth day
The King County Elections tabulation team counted 31,309 additional absentee ballots today.
It’s Monday today, will we add another 30,000 votes 5 business days after election day?  King County is moving to switch to 100% [...]

King County Adds 27,114 Votes in 3rd Day of Counting

From the county website, “The King County Elections tabulation team counted 27,114 additional absentee ballots today. “
So, I just can’t imagine how anyone can believe the lie that all vote-by mail elections are somehow “faster” and more effecient? I used to remember that elections were called shortly after the polls closed, and concession speeches commenced.
Voting [...]

VBM turns out about 1/3rd of Washington Voter’s

http://www.vote.wa.gov/Elections/2007/Results/Turnout.aspx
[Updated August 29th, 2007]
Turn-out during the primary is now at roughly 36.6499%. Which is higher than the 34% predicted, and which has steadily climbed from the election day number of 19%.
Isn’t having half the votes come in after election day a bigger problem than low voter turn-out? And the basic numbers stayed the same, about 1/3rd of [...]

Voter turnout - higher or lower or the same?

Hmm, this year’s Washington State Primary is a real interesting lesson in the art of spinning turnout.
First on August 9th, 2007 Sam Reed predicted 34 percent turnout. Beating 2005’s numbers. But then on August 20th, the AP Reports, Small turnout predicted for WA’s first early primary. 
Then there’s this at the end of the article:
Historically, odd-year primaries haven’t [...]

My mail from June 13, 2006

I don’t know if everyone will be able to see this, but just last week these three pieces of mail showed up in my mail box. The postmark is from June 13th, 2006. These three pieces of mail arrived on August 2, 2007. They were all sent 1st class mail from Bellevue, Washington. Now [...]

Vote Buying (You don’t say)

Dateline: New Jersey. Looks like absentee ballots might have been used in a vote buying scheme in a New Jersey Council Race.
http://www.hudsonreporter.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18661898&BRD=1291&PAG=461&dept_id=523585&rfi=6
Two weeks ago, Campos filed a 33-page complaint with the Superior Court of New Jersey charging the victorious campaign of Dawn Zimmer with more than 200 counts of voter fraud.
The allegations range [...]