Reply #76: Brief likens recount to Nixon's 1960 race

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Nixon can't save you now.


Brief likens recount to Nixon's 1960 race
By David Postman
Times chief political Reporter

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OLYMPIA — The words of Richard Nixon and the deeds of the late
Richard Daley are now an official part of the growing court record
in the disputed recount of Washington's gubernatorial election.

In a friend-of-the-court brief filed yesterday in the state Supreme
Court, former Republican Attorney General Ken Eikenberry and the
influential Building Industry Association of Washington (BIAW)
compared King County's ballot-counting problems to Daley's alleged
manipulation of the Chicago vote when he was mayor during the 1960
presidential election.

As evidence, they quote Nixon's memoir, "RN," which says, "the Daley
Machine was holding back the Chicago results until the downstate
Republican counties had reported and it was known how many votes the
Democrats would need to carry the state."

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The Republican Party's court filings have stopped short of alleging
partisan corruption in the Democratic stronghold of King County. But
the BIAW and Eikenberry said if King County gets to count some 700
disputed ballots, "it will further the perception of corruption
and/or fraud that already exists in King County's ballot-counting
procedures."

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The Democrats responded to the BIAW and Eikenberry in a filing
yesterday. The party called it "an apparent attempt to insinuate
indirectly what plaintiffs ... could not prove, that there is even
the slightest indication of fraud in the manual recount of the
Washington Governor's race in King County matter.]"

Democrats were unimpressed by evidence presented in the friend-of-
the-court brief, saying it "relies upon letters to the editor, a
Wall Street Journal editorial and newspaper articles quoting the
Washington State Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance's unfortunate
hyperbole."


Link:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002127177_recountside22m.html