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Clerk 05/04/2005
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A MOTION related to elections administration; finding that serious management errors occurred before, during, and after the 2004 election in King County and declaring that it is the policy of King County that the council has lost confidence in the management performance of the director of the records, elections and licensing services division and calling upon the county executive to consider requesting the resignation of Dean Logan.
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WHEREAS, mistakes and accounting errors by King County elections officials before, during and after the 2004 election have cast a shadow on Elections Director Dean Logan, and
WHEREAS, it is the purpose of the following findings to outline the evidence of gross mismanagement before, during and after the 2004 election, and
WHEREAS, on November 16, 2004, during the ballot counting process, King County found ten thousand additional ballots that officials had not included in prior estimations of ballots remaining to be counted, and
WHEREAS, on November 17, 2004, the initial vote count results showed Dino Rossi leading Christine Gregoire by two hundred sixty-one votes, within the statutory margin to trigger a mandatory machine recount, and
WHEREAS, on November 24, 2004, the mandatory machine recount ended with Rossi leading Gregoire by forty-two votes, and
WHEREAS, on November 26, 2004, King County elections officials found three hundred thirty-six more ballots not previously counted, and
WHEREAS, on December 3, 2004, the Washington State Democrats requested a hand recount of ballots cast in the governor's race, the hand count began on December 8, 2004, and
WHEREAS, during the week of December 13, 2004, King County elections officials, on three different occasions, revealed that they found a total of five hundred seventy-three ballots that had previously not been counted, and
WHEREAS, on December 18, 2004, King County elections officials found one hundred fifty more ballots that h...

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