Basically, King County (Seattle) the biggest Democratic county in Washington state waited until all the other counties had reported their THIRD vote tally before dumping unverified provisional ballots into their count and swaying the result in favor of the Democrat in the governor's race. Anyone who requests a provisional ballot can cast it. But it is the responsibility of the local election authorities to check to see that the individual doing so is legally entitled to vote. If there is a revote, let's charter buses to Seattle and cast our own provisional ballots.
Inside Politics - The Washington Times: Inside Politics - January 06, 2005: "Republicans in Washington state yesterday said that hundreds of provisional ballots in the state's ultra-close governor's race may have been counted on Election Day without being verified.
Republicans are finding flaws in the governor's balloting and demanding a new election. After losing the first two counts, Democrat Christine Gregoire bested Republican Dino Rossi in the third count by 129 votes out of 2.9 million ballots cast.
State Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance said an admission by election workers in King County that provisional ballots had been counted without verification is 'absolute proof' of the need for a new election, the Associated Press reports.
The heavily Democratic county, which includes Seattle, was the last to turn in the figures of its hand count, after media reports had kept running tallies of the race as the other counties' recounts poured in.
'It's enough right there to invalidate the election,' Mr. Vance said. 'This is a bombshell.' "
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