Thursday, December 23, 2004
The Republican Version Of Vote Fraud
Conservatives have finally found something to claim vote fraud over: counting every ballot by hand in the Washington governor race.
The crowd chanted "No new votes!" and "No more fraud!" They held signs saying "Welcome to Ukraine" and wore orange, a tribute to the signature color of demonstrators in Ukraine who protested a fraud-marred election there.At the very same time that these conservatives cried foul, the Republican Party was hard at work doing what it's always trying to do: suppress votes in a heavily Democratic County.
A Pierce County judge on Friday granted the state Republican Party's motion for a temporary restraining order to stop King County from counting those newly discovered ballots. King County, the state Democratic Party and the Secretary of State appealed the case to the state Supreme Court.Hypocrisy at its finest.