Ruffy: I am sure you missed this so here it is. Swampy
King County pays 225 thousand dollars for dragging ther feet in producing the documents of the 2004 Rossi Gregoir election. He found over 200 double votes, Absentee than provisional. Hundreds of votes wheren signaturesn did not match signatures on file and hundreds where sigs did match but the votes were discarded as not matching. meny votes that were not cast by registered voters but were counted. Why isn't the county prosecutor pressing charges? And now Ron Sims is about to be confirmed as a secretary of HUD. If these records had been availlable at rossi's trial to throw out the election the judge would have been forced to rule with Rossi.Swampy
Speaking of Ron Sims
King County News
by Stefan Sharkansky, 09:58 AM
King County has now settled my public records lawsuit for $225,000, one of the largest settlements for public records violations in state history.
The lawsuit stemmed from my December 2004 request for a list of all voters who voted in the November 2004 election. The county did not satisfy my request in full until January 2007.
The documents that they eventually provided to me revealed that county election officials unlawfully counted hundreds of ineligible ballots in the 2004 election: a multiple of Christine Gregoire's 133-vote "margin of victory" over Dino Rossi in the contested gubernatorial race. Documentation of these illegal votes was withheld from discovery in the election contest trial and not released to me until months after the trial. Consequently, the trial was conducted in ignorance of these potentially outcome-changing illegal votes.
Additional documents that were released last month in discovery for my case confirmed that county officials both knew more about the illegal vote counting than they had previously acknowledged, and also knowingly withheld responsive documents from me during 2005 and 2006.
The exceptionally large (for records cases) settlement, which King County offered before trial, clearly recognizes the county's culpability in this matter.
King County Executive Ron Sims, who is ultimately responsible for any records violations under his administration, appears to be on track for confirmation as Deputy Secretary of HUD. Sims is also well known for the Yousoufian public records scandal.
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