Reply #20: Strategies in governor's contest now clearer [View All]

Strategies in governor's contest now clearer
'Proportional analysis' may be key argument in court

By GREGORY ROBERTS

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER 21 March 2005

Dead people voted. Some felons cast ballots although their rights were not restored. And then there were legal votes possibly not counted.

Who? How many? What difference does it make?

As Democrats and Republicans argue in the court of public opinion, the real answers are pending in Washington's courts of law, which will decide Republican Dino Rossi's challenge to the 129-vote victory by his opponent in the governor's race, Democrat Christine Gregoire.

And while GOP lawyers won't say exactly what they will argue before Chelan County Superior Court Judge John Bridges in the trial that could start late next month, possible strategies outlined so far include "proportional analysis" striking illegal votes in the same proportion as Gregoire received legal votes.

-snip/more-

http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=5036