Wrapping Up Day Eight
Day Eight of the Washington State gubernatorial election challenge has concluded. We are pretty much at the end of this long, two weeks in court. The trial resumes tomorrow morning at 9:00 AM.
David Goldstein of HorsesAss.org has become a regular on John Carlson's weekday KVI show, appearing along with local wingnut Stefan Sharkansky. He was on yet again today and we will again have a clip from the show that you can listen to soon.
Major highlights today: We learned that the judge will rule on Monday, issuing his oral decision then. We also heard the last of Linda Sanchez' testimony. Sanchez is the King County elections operations supervisor.
And we heard from Noel Frame, who led the twenty person Democratic effort to hunt for felon voters.
Beofre the Democrats rested their case, we heard again from Mark Handcock, who again attacked the "proportional deduction" methodology (better known as "speculative attribution"). Then the Democrats rested their case and rebuttal began.
Here's a couple excerpts from a just published Seattle P-I article:
As usual, we have a full wrap up of what transpired today - and we're continuing to update our index of all Pacific Northwest Portal-affiliated blog posts about the trial.
David Goldstein of HorsesAss.org has become a regular on John Carlson's weekday KVI show, appearing along with local wingnut Stefan Sharkansky. He was on yet again today and we will again have a clip from the show that you can listen to soon.
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Major highlights today: We learned that the judge will rule on Monday, issuing his oral decision then. We also heard the last of Linda Sanchez' testimony. Sanchez is the King County elections operations supervisor.
And we heard from Noel Frame, who led the twenty person Democratic effort to hunt for felon voters.
Beofre the Democrats rested their case, we heard again from Mark Handcock, who again attacked the "proportional deduction" methodology (better known as "speculative attribution"). Then the Democrats rested their case and rebuttal began.
Here's a couple excerpts from a just published Seattle P-I article:
The Republicans hope Bridges will agree with their proposal for subtracting invalid votes from the candidates' totals in proportion to the overall percentage of the vote each candidate received in the affected precincts.We're confident that the Democrats will prevail in this election challenge. The GOP hasn't met their burden of proof.
They have submitted their own lists of votes by felons and other ballots they maintain were cast illegally. The vast majority of those votes come from King County, where Gregoire took 57 percent of the vote and where she stands to lose heavily under the GOP proposal.
The Democrats have accused the GOP of "cherry-picking" illegal votes.
...The Democrats called as their final witness Mark Handcock, a professor of statistics and sociology at the University of Washington who attacked the GOP proposal for proportional deduction of illegal votes on a precinct basis.
"The methods applied by the (Republicans') scientists in this case do not meet acceptable scientific standards," Handcock said.
Even if you did apply those methods, Handcock said, Gregoire would still win under several varying combinations of illegal votes included in the formula, which he adjusted for the gender of the felons to reflect the greater likelihood of men voting Republican.
As usual, we have a full wrap up of what transpired today - and we're continuing to update our index of all Pacific Northwest Portal-affiliated blog posts about the trial.
