Admission against interest

Red State is reporting that a King County supervisor of absentee ballots has admitted in court proceedings that she falsified a report to match the total votes cast with the number of registered voters. Curiouser and curiouser...

The margin of error appears to be greater than the margin of victory -- and to top it off -- there are 900 felon voters to enter into evidence. The judge is admitting everything.

At least one media-outlet confirms the story with this in the Tri-City Herald: The supervisor, Nicole Way, said she repeatedly told her bosses as early as spring 2004 that the King County elections department couldn't tell how many ballots were being mailed out or received back. About two-thirds of the county's 900,000 votes in the November election were mail ballots.

Under questioning by GOP attorney Harry Korrell, Way said she and other workers tried to create a computer spreadsheet to track ballots they were mailing out, but eventually gave up.

In a sworn deposition, Way said that she and her direct supervisor, Garth Fell, an assistant elections superintendent, approved a Nov. 17 mail ballot report that falsely showed all absentee ballots had been accounted for. She said they couldn't get the numbers to add up otherwise.