Washington State Republicans want wide discovery for lawsuit

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2002150778&zsection_id=2002111777&slug=recount14m&date=20050114

GOP seeks criminal records

By David Postman
Seattle Times chief political reporter


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Yesterday, attorneys for Dino Rossi and the Republican Party asked the State Patrol for an electronic copy of that database, the Washington State Identification System. The list contains more than 1.2 million records. Republicans are hoping to do a quicker and less expensive search than what is available to the general public.

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Democrats say Republicans are using the lawsuit as a "broad fishing expedition ... to prop up their otherwise unsupported allegations."

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In papers filed Wednesday, Democratic attorneys said if the court sides with Republicans, it should at least delay discovery until some legal questions are answered.

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There now are so many attorneys representing what by one count is more than 90 parties in the suit that court officials will hold hearings in the Chelan County Auditorium, across the street from the courthouse.

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Sorry I chopped the article up so much; I tried to find 4 of the better paragraphs. I really recommend reading the whole thing. It is a fascinatingly look at a lawsuit filed by republicans who claim the Washington State governor's election was not fair. Interesting that they seem to have a different criteria of what passes for election integrity than when their own candidate 'wins'.

It seems that they are trying every possibility in the book to get it their way :( I wish they would GET OVER IT!

The correct link is as follows:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002150778_recount14m.html

The Seattle Times doesn't like people linking to avoid story click-throughs by posting links to print pages, and punishes you with dead links for trying...

I hope they push and push and push, because it is exactly the kind of thing that will set a precident for *us* to push and push and push for presidential election fraud (or at least the fraud that will occur in 2006).

There is going to be a "re-vote" in November 2008. It'll probably take that long to comb through the records anyway.

with many of their voters due to the exposure of them that will occur
over the next couple of years. STAY TUNED!

to buy themselves a perjury trap.

but that seems to make no difference to a repuke. Look what happened to Gray Davis in California. If there's a way to get Gregoire out, they'll find it.

I'm taking back the word "bitch" --

I'd bet she knows what the GOPigs are up to and is several steps ahead of them.

She knows she won -- and she is probably aware of all the the Rossi dirty tricks. The Rossi team will continue to play the press -- and Gregoire will concentrate on her job as Washington State Governor.

...that this will come back to bite them in the butt, not only in Washington but on a national level. Ohio, anyone?

Party asked the State Patrol for an electronic copy of that database, the Washington State Identification System. The list contains more than 1.2 million records.

I agree! We should do the same thing as soon as possible!

What the Repubs do in Washington, we should do in Ohio, step by step. What's good for the stampeding elephant (they do love to stampede, don't they) is good for the kicking donkey.

I agree with above poster: let them set a precedent. Of course, they do tend to make the rules, then break the rules when it's conveeeenyent for 'em.

i mean stonewalled

. . . I had intended to do a bit of snooping into registration standards. So I did. Washington State does restore voting rights to those persons who have been convicted of felonies when their civil rights have been restored by the court. This is from the Secretary of State's webpage at http://www.secstate.wa.gov/elections/voterguide/faq.aspx:



What I'm curious about now is if Vancy-Pants, et al, are allowed to acquire these records from the state, will those records also reveal who has had their civil rights restored? I certainly hope the judge doesn't leave this state open to the same kind of inappropriate "purging" that happened in Florida.

Dammit.