Hot dang, I'm on a roll.
Let it be a cinnamon roll, please.
Just reading the post of 11/17 - re: the governors race (walk?) here in Washington state. It's still not been decided. First a machine recount, then a hand recount. From 260 odd to 42 - and now who knows.
Consider - King County contains Seattle and it's environs. A blue section of this almost completely red state. And the deciding factor in almost every vote IN this state.
King County keeps coming up with more uncounted ballots. As of this point they are up to something like 700 ballots that for one reason or another were not counted.
Geez, I hate this thought - but to stay true to my beliefs, I have to say that those votes should be counted. They should HAVE been counted. But of course, someone said "oh, a few votes won't make any difference". Uh huh. Some little glitch happened. The person's signature wasn't on file. The person didn't sign their ballot. Or .. the canvassing worker failed to make a "good" decision on the ballot. For whatever reason, if the ballot SHOULD have been counted on election day, it should be counted now. If the ballot should NOT have been counted, it should NOT be counted now. Lets not make super-human efforts to make that ballot that was incorrectly submitted valid. But .. let's also not kick it out if the election worker or the machinery (including beauracratic machinery) did not process it correctly.
And maybe cut off the "finding of ballots" after the count is over. Find some ballots - shame on you - throw them out with the rest of the trash.
Human error is always there. If the whole country was to be recounted several times, we might always wind up with different answers.
Keep in mind that the doctor that you ask for the second opinion isn't always right...just second.
-max
posted by Mal @ 6:18 PM
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Good word...Good word.
Glad to see you all got it together out there. It's about time. Did ya'll forget you are in the North West & not the South East? I mean, not even Florida screwed up this year...why couldn't you guys get it right?
hahahaha. Kidding...
Yah - I know.
Interestingly enough, MY county made a decision to count one ballot that was sent to the wrong person of the same name. That person rec'd two ballots and discarded one of them. Then the person who rec'd no ballot requested one, since her's had not shown up. So .. it became a duplicate ballot through no fault of her own. The auditor made the decision to count that ballot in the hand recount. And now that decision is being used by the opposition as evidence that ALL disallowed ballots should be counted. Which is probably true. Upshot of it all is that we probably will wind up with a democrat house, senate and governor in Washington this time. [sigh]
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