Comments on The Saga in the 46th Continues

Here's your answer: disqualify both of them. Gross incompetents, both of them.

I do however believe the timestamp is bad. The vast majority of them are. I wouldn't trust any timestamp on a fax.

While White's illness is unfortunate, I doubt his health and attempt to withdraw will be the deciding issue in this race. There are still 5 months until the general election--plenty of time to learn more about both White and Pollet.

BS alarm ringing -- the candidate tried to withdraw, but claims the time stamp is wrong on his "I withdraw" fax, by three hours or so.
Uh-huh. "Aw shucks we're the elections office, where we accept all kinds of important forms on deadline by fax, and you see, it's normal for us to have the wrong time entered on our fax machines, and for them to be off by three hours, even though it counts whether something is filed by 4:30 pm or not. so you see, we just sit here disregarding the wrong time stamp cuz we know about it and so everything coming in on that fax machine has the wrong time stamped on it."

"Trust us, we're the same government as this guy works for right upstairs so no hanky panky here!"

Uh-huh.

And who'd really wait so incompetently to file the form at around 4:30 knowing it's close of business on deadline day?

By fax when he could walk it downstairs?

His story is "trust me, I'm grossly incompetent in filing my form so don't believe that time stamp."

Uh-huh.

And people wonder whether an elected auditor should be approved by the voters. Let's see here: Sims fax. Sims elections office. Sims appointee Scott White. All appear to be either grossly incompetent, conspiring and covering up, or some combination thereof.

No one appears to have explained how 1:29 at Sims office becomes 4:35pm at the Elections office. Maybe they like to go home early, so set their clocks ahead. No one explains why the county accepted the withdrawal, posted it on the web page, then accepted a withdrawal of the withdrawal!

Does anyone believe an elected auditor would tolerate such monkey business? No way.

Finally, what arrogance on Mr. White's part - blantantly violating the law using county resources. And whether it was 1:30 or 4:30, the taxpayers paid his salary to do all of this. He should be fired or resign immediately. As to paying the $1.50 back (apparently at Sims' office request), that's like the thief who gets caught stealing - giving back the stolen property after getting caught -- it doesn't resolve the problem and get the thief off the hook.

And this guy wants to be elected to the state legislature to write and pass laws?!?! Really? Really unbelievable.

I hate to give aid and comfort to the enemy (ie - the ongoing Republican jihad against Ron Sims and King County Elections), but this all does seem to be pretty suspect - as does what I read about the vote count at the 46th that seemed, um, irregular at best.

At the very least, there is a major league appearance of impropriety here, along with actual violations of the County ethics code (though not a firing offense).

I suspect Fibber McGhee, Mr X and suspicious are all the same person .

Axe grinding par excellance

@ 6

You are so right. Don't you just wish we could trace all Slog posts back to their exact source and see who they are via an online camera? In this case, it is pretty obvious that only the opposing candidate or a member of his team would possibly care enough to take the time to write multi-paragraph posts regurgitating the same story.

Someday we will have the technology and Stranger policies that require visual IDs of all who post!!!