Gregoire needs help this weekend!

Did you think the 2004 election was over?

Think again.

Right now we are racing the clock - and we need your help to make sure that every vote is counted.

County auditors have received many absentee ballots sent by voters who forgot to sign the envelope. The good news is that these voters get a chance to correct that mistake so their ballots can be counted.

This election could come down to a few hundred votes. These absentee ballots may determine whether Chris Gregoire is sworn in as Governor when January arrives.

You have been a loyal and crucial part of our campaign. Now we need you to turn out for one final volunteer effort.

We must reach every one of these voters this weekend. We have their names and addresses. But we need your help to find these voters, explain the law to them, and get them into the county auditors’ offices so their votes can be counted.

Details on volunteering are below.

King County:
If you can help out at one of the below phone banks or canvasses, please RSVP at 206-328-2969

Thursday 11/11/2004
Phone banking: 4pm - 8pm
Washington Democrats Coordinated Campaign Headquarters
1848 Westlake Ave N
(one block south of the China Harbor Restaurant on Lake Union)

Friday 11/12/2004
Phone banking: 3pm - 8pm
Washington Democrats Coordinated Campaign Headquarters
1848 Westlake Ave N
(one block south of the China Harbor Restaurant on Lake Union)

Saturday 11/13/2004
Canvassing: 9am - 1pm
Aerospace Machinists Hall
1525 15th Pl S.

Canvassing: 2pm - 6pm
Aerospace Machinists Hall
1525 15th Pl S.

Sunday 11/14/2004
Canvassing: 10am - 2pm
Aerospace Machinists Hall
1525 15th Pl S.

Canvassing: 2pm - 6pm
Aerospace Machinists Hall
1525 15th Pl S.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/199370_governor12.html

This article says that King County won't provide the names of provisional voters whose ballots were rejected. Unfortunately the article does not give the web site or phone number where voters who cast provisional ballots can check to see if their ballots were rejected, and then challenge that rejection.

We need to have that information and then canvass to find out who may have cast provisional ballots and encourage them to find out if their ballot was accepted or rejected.

s_m

(a) The State Democratic Party's crack legal bulldogs won the case you linked to -- I guess the Co. must have turned over that list by now!

(b) The right place to get information about who is being contacted is at canvasser training this morning at 10am at the Aerospace Machinist's Hall.

or is it all in king county?

Pierce County:

If you can help out at one of the below phone banks or canvasses, please RSVP by contacting: Seth Howard at Seth@wa-democrats.org or at 253-691-9227 and 206-328-2969

Saturday 11/13/2004
Canvassing: 9am - 1pm
Coordinated Campaign HQ
1127 Broadway, Tacoma

Canvassing: 2pm - 6pm
Coordinated Campaign HQ
1127 Broadway, Tacoma

Sunday 11/14/2004
Canvassing: 10am - 1pm
Coordinated Campaign HQ
1127 Broadway, Tacoma

Canvassing: 2pm - 6pm
Coordinated Campaign HQ
1127 Broadway, Tacoma

Kitsap County:
To volunteer in Kitsap County email Katie Mosehauer at chrish@gregoire2004.com

Spokane County:
To volunteer in Spokane County email Peter Mccollum at chrish@gregoire2004.com

Thurston County:
To volunteer in Thurston County email Linda Wheeler at chrish@gregoire2004.com

Yakima County:
To volunteer in Yakima County email Joy Langley at chrish@gregoire2004.com

Kittitas County:
To volunteer in Kittitas County email Patrick Wicklund at chrish@gregoire2004.com

In all other counties, if you can help lead the fight to get every Gregoire vote counted, please call the Headquarters at 206-328-2969 and let the front desk know how you can help. Monday Nov. 16th is the final deadline for voters to get to their auditors and fix their ballots. If you can help drive voters to the auditor's offices, please call the Gregoire Campaign Headquarters at 206-328-2969.

This is an excellent post, eridani. Good details for people in other counties!

--at the Machinists' Hall and personally recovered 8 votes for Gregoire on a single sheet. There were 20 people in the room, so if they all did that well, that's 160. In addition, there were teams of canvassers going out separately. Wish I could do something during the week, but there is no way I can get off of work.

--at the Machinists' Hall and personally recovered 8 votes for Gregoire on a single sheet. There were 20 people in the room, so if they all did that well, that's 160. In addition, there were teams of canvassers going out separately. Wish I could do something during the week, but there is no way I can get off of work.