Do you suppose Paul Berendt, State Dem Chair and well known sprinkler system is going to be crying when he reads THIS report?
Thursday, May 19, 2005 - Page updated at 12:00 a.m.
Election manager linked to false report
By Keith Ervin
Seattle Times staff reporter
King County's absentee-ballot supervisor has testified that she collaborated with her boss when she filled out a report that falsely showed all ballots were accounted for in the November election.
Nicole Way said in a deposition Friday that she and assistant elections superintendent Garth Fell agreed to the misleading report because officials didn't know how many absentee ballots were returned by voters.
Way is the first employee to link an upper-level manager with a practice that failed to meet state ballot-auditing regulations.
The regulations require counties to reconcile the number of absentee ballots returned by voters with the number of ballots accepted or rejected. Way's report showed perfect reconciliation because it simply added the number accepted and rejected to calculate ballots returned.
Elections officials now acknowledge that dozens of absentee ballots were misplaced and the votes not tabulated during the November election. The ballots were never counted as accepted or rejected.
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