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* wash.state. "An unknown number of provisional voters, some of
whom may not even have been registered to vote, improperly put
their ballots directly into vote-counting machines at polling
places, King County's elections superintendent said yesterday.
Once those ballots went into the machines, there was no way to
separate them from legitimate ballots." the election system is so
fucking broken. can they get *anything* right?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002141050_recount05m.html

* also in wash: "A top Republican, House Minority Leader Bruce
Chandler, said the Legislature should delay ratifying the results
of the election until more questions are answered. He disagreed
with Brown's contention that the recount process followed the rules.
"The people of this state clearly have lost confidence in the
election process," Chandler said Tuesday. "The truth of the matter
is, we don't know who won this election and we never will." He and
Brown spoke at The Associated Press Legislative Preview on Tuesday.
Also Tuesday, radio stations began running ads paid for by the
state Republican Party, declaring the governor's election a
"certified mess" and urging people to petition the Legislature for
a new election." awesoem. stupid repugs.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=385504

* ""If Senate Democrats remain silent on Thursday, and we see a
repeat of their 2000 endorsement of a manipulated election, the
Democratic Party will have abandoned all claims to be the
opposition," said Nan Garrett of the Georgia Green Party.
"Americans who care about democracy and fair elections should
understand such silence as an endorsement of the kind of Republican
election engineering we witnessed in Ohio and of the Bush agenda.""
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0105-08.htm


* "U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer is “seriously
considering” joining a challenge by several members of the
House of Representatives to the results of the 2004 Presidential
election, her press secretary, David Sandretti, said Wednesday
morning, January 5. “We’ll know for sure by tomorrow
afternoon,” he added." we sure will.
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/107140.shtml

* "Editorial: Don't certify Ohio results"
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/index.php?ntid=23419&ntpid=0

* "Twenty-four members from the House signed a letter issued to the
full House and Senate this afternoon in a last-minute bid to
encourage the Senate to open discussion on the electoral vote tally
Thursday" http://rawstory.rawprint.com/105/final_plea_105.php

* the other cool thing about a challenge 2morrow is that it will
provide impetus for the counter-inaugural riots jan20



* i mentioned the other day that 19% of ams believe that the
election was stolen - of course, that prolly doesnt contain many
redheads - ie that means that 30%+ of dems think the election was
stolen.

* keith "... House Democrats have apparently secured the support of up to half a dozen Senators to formally challenge the Electoral College slate... The Majority is also worried about the possible absence
of many of its members in both houses, and the prospect that a
quorum might not be achieved, leading the process into uncharted,
albeit not very threatening, constitutional grounds. There is a
mathematical, if not practical, chance that the ratification of the
Electoral College vote could be delayed past tomorrow." hmmm - imagine if a bunch of repugs dont turn up and dems actually outvote them! praps the best thing moderate repugs can do tomorrow is call in sick. that would be sweeeeeet
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6667405/#050105a

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