Stefan Stefarsky of Sound Politics out of Seattle tells us

The voter file, which I obtained earlier today, contains the names of only 895,660 voters recorded as voting on Nov. 2, a significant discrepancy from its hand recount certified total of 899,199.

The Elections Office informed me that they’re still doing “quality control” and adding in the names of some of the absentee voters. Even that wouldn’t explain the entire discrepancy, as there appear to be discrepancies with the polling place and provisional vote counts as well. I’ve asked the Elections Office for further clarification and will convey their explanation as soon as I recieve one.

Also, they have not yet released the full precinct canvass for the manual recount, as they did for the first count and the machine recount.

Oh, they found ballots aplenty, but it was not 3,539 of them which were allowed by the courts.

Hindrocket at PowerLine quotes from the Seattle Times:

The latest questions about King County came after the elections office released on Wednesday a list of all registered voters in the county, broken down by those who voted and those who didn’t. The Republican Party, among other groups, had requested the information as part of its investigation of voting irregularities.

Conservative blogger Stefan Sharkansky pointed out the discrepancy Wednesday, and by yesterday it was Topic A among Rossi backers and Republican Party officials.

Party Chairman Chris Vance said it could be the “smoking gun” needed to overturn the election.

They sent out ballots for deceased Dems, Hindrocket notes, whom they depict as merely “inactive.”

Oh, either something is broken and was allowed to operate anyway in the case of a contested election, or this is pure fraud. Given the anti-Bush/anti-GOP attitudes we saw last election, the latter is almost obvious.

Matt Margolis at Blogs for Bush notes:

3,539 more votes than registered voters in King County… Meanwhile, Gregoire was just certified the winner. Isn’t that convenient?

The MSM has embraced Christine Gregoire’s “victory,” and the rest will be muted: “Get over it, Bush won, you should be satisfied.” And CBSNews will air a piece of the women’s gubernatorial revolution.

Where’s Michael Moore with his gawdforsaken cameras?

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