Honestly, I don't know why i'm bothering with this. Now that we
have gone to an all mail based ballot we have all but guaranteed that
over time voter fraud will be the rule. There are just so many easy
ways to cause ballots to 'spoil' (before if I screwed up a ballot the
machine would tell me, now if there is a mistake I'm just out of
luck), to connect who a person is with their ballot, to make ballot
purchasing or coercion verifiable and therefore easy, that it's
ridiculous. An all mail in ballot system is inherently an
illegitimate voting system. We lost folks. There's no way around it.
I don't know why I insist on going through the charade that our votes
matter. Any system that makes fraud easy will be defrauded and an all
mail in ballot system is the very definition of a 'fraud friendly'
environment. But my guess is that the fraud will take a little while
to start up in full bloom so until then I'll pretend my vote matters.
I'll pretend my vote was received. I'll pretend that my vote was
counted correctly. Because that's all the system leave me with,
pretense.
Initiative Measure No. 1033 - NO
Referendum Measure No. 71 - APPROVED
King County Charter Amendment No. 1 - YES
King County Charter Amendment No. 2 - YES
King County Charter Amendment No. 3 - YES
King County Charter Amendment No. 4 - YES
King County Executive - Dow Constantine
Sheriff - Sue Rahr
King County Assessor - Bob Rosenberger
Metropolitan King County Council District No. 3 - Kathy
Lambert
Court of Appeals, Division No. 1, District No.1 Judge
Position No. 3 - Anne L. Ellington
Port of Seattle Commissioner Position No. 1 - John Creighton
Port of Seattle Commissioner Position No. 3 - Rob Holland
Port of Seattle Commissioner Position No. 4 - Tom Albro
City of Redmond - Council Position No. 2 - John P. (Pat)
Vache
City of Redmond - Council Position No. 4 - Kim Allen
City of Redmond - Council Position No. 6 - John Stilin
Lake Washington School District No. 414 Director District No.
3 - Nancy Phillips Bernard
Lake Washington School District No. 414 Director District No.
4 - Doug Eglington
Public Hospital District No. 2 - Commissioner District No. 1
- Al F. DeYoung
Public Hospital District No. 2 -Commissioner Position No. 4 -
Charles A. Pilcher
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