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January 14, 2005

I deserve a break today...

Lots of loose ends yet to tie up on my investigation of the military balloting in regard to the Washington Gubernatorial (or Goodbernatorial, as AlsoAlso blog calls it...LOL). I could work on this for days and still be digging, I think.

As it is, I am going to have to take a break from my investigations for today and go out to work with my students. Believe it or not..those people I work for actually expect me to go to work if I want to get paid. The nerve of them!

I do need to clear up a couple of misconceptions that may be floating around, however.

In regard to the bulk mailing of military ballots for King County, it's my understanding that King County stuffs the envelopes and that's it. They send the envelopes and addresses off to the vendor, who does the rest of the work and gets the things mailed off. There's some quibbling over why ballots were mailed from Snohomish County. It's my understanding that the vendor is located in Snohomish County and after the bulk mailing preparation is done, they just take it to the closest post office. This seems like fairly nitpicky stuff...but apparently people that want to quibble over every little detail are going to. Hopefully that puts that to rest.

Second, there may be some who think I prompted the story to come out in the Seattle Times yesterday about King County mailing the ballots on time. I don't know that this is the case. I had been emailing back and forth a little with Keith Ervin who wrote the story...but to my knowledge he was working on it independent of me already. I suppose he may have pushed it harder with me working on it..but he may not have. I don't want anyone believing that Ervin's story happened because of me, tho. It happened because of Ervin.

Posted by Carla at January 14, 2005 09:14 AM