Tuesday, January 11, 2005
"There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad."
That title is a direct quote from "Baghdad Bob," Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf: The Iraqi Minister of [DIS]Information, from 4/7/2003.
Why do I bring that up now? Because the people in charge of King County Elections, Dean Logan and Bill Huennekens sound more and more like this joker with each passing day.
There is a great story in today's seattle times (here) about even MORE errors found in the vote tally. Of course, most of this information was recently uncovered by the efforts of the intrepid bloggers over at Sound Politics.
Read the story, but I have to share my favorite quote from King County Minister of [DIS]Information Dean Logan. The Times discovered what Sound Politics did, that the County's original report showed that they mailed military ballots two days after a federal deadline, but then the day before the story broke, they changed their report to say they mailed them the day before the deadline. (The post office has EVIDENCE that proves otherwise, mind you).
Now, Dean Logan says that the first date (which was after the deadline) was wrong because......
For crying out loud! Is this what the people are supposed to believe now? Their excuses for the plentiful errors that keep popping up get more and more silly with each passing day! I should make up a list of quotes from these two jokers.
** UPDATE #2 **: I had previously updated this post because of the comment and the related story in the Seattle Times saying that all military ballots were now explained. But as Stefan from Sound Politics points out here, the Seattle Times article does not account for all the ballots in question...they're still about 6500 military ballots short.
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Why do I bring that up now? Because the people in charge of King County Elections, Dean Logan and Bill Huennekens sound more and more like this joker with each passing day.
There is a great story in today's seattle times (here) about even MORE errors found in the vote tally. Of course, most of this information was recently uncovered by the efforts of the intrepid bloggers over at Sound Politics.
Read the story, but I have to share my favorite quote from King County Minister of [DIS]Information Dean Logan. The Times discovered what Sound Politics did, that the County's original report showed that they mailed military ballots two days after a federal deadline, but then the day before the story broke, they changed their report to say they mailed them the day before the deadline. (The post office has EVIDENCE that proves otherwise, mind you).
Now, Dean Logan says that the first date (which was after the deadline) was wrong because......
He said numbers on the report, which he produced himself, were inadvertently changed when converted to code for the Web site.Yeah, that darned HTML will mix your dates up every time, won't it?! Does he think that no one else in King County works with HTML?
For crying out loud! Is this what the people are supposed to believe now? Their excuses for the plentiful errors that keep popping up get more and more silly with each passing day! I should make up a list of quotes from these two jokers.
** UPDATE #2 **: I had previously updated this post because of the comment and the related story in the Seattle Times saying that all military ballots were now explained. But as Stefan from Sound Politics points out here, the Seattle Times article does not account for all the ballots in question...they're still about 6500 military ballots short.
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Scott--please make sure you update your posting to show that further investigation reveals the King County military ballots were mailed on time, and that SoundPolitics reporting was misleading, due to the fact that the cited bulk mailing ID was not used for military ballots at all.
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January 13, 2005 1:42 PM
