Most of us in Washington State continue to reel at the fraud and negligence that characterized our election here last November.

Shark Sharkansky at Sound Politics has continued on with dogged determination - he's continued to execute FOIA requests (or their equivalent at the County level) - and has continued to expose the staggering corruption in King County. Just yesterday he discovered by physical inspection dozens more additional absentee ballots - many of them from members of the armed services - that were not counted in last November's election!

A week ago, working with Bob Edelmen of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, Shark discovered and reported that the current set of King County absentee ballots (that we're going to vote in the upcoming local election) are in violation of state law - having to do with mail forwarding.

These things continue to remind us of the horrid conditions that our election system remains in - but I have something to share that's a bit more, well, Heinlenian.

I just received my absentee ballot and my local voters pamphlet - we've got this local King County election coming up September 20th. Among the offices to be filled is that of King County Executive - for which the election department works - so you can imagine that it is important to many of us.

I'm pretty sure that we have been transported to some strange planet, because this is the front page of the voter's pamphlet:

You really can't make this stuff up folks. I think this is the most condescending piece of crap information I have ever seen in the voting process.

Perhaps it's just that I'm still a bit staggered from the UN worldwide condom distribution effort - but these characters look like they were created by the same folks who made Shaft, Stretch, and Dick. What do you think?

Anyway, in a strange reflection of King County's incompetence, the voting public is being told like good second graders to vote for the guy whose nose grows when he tells a lie - somewhere around the pelvic area of the ballot.

I guess that means that Dean Logan will be running for Governor sometime in the future.

Inside the voter's pamphlet we are treated to a letter from Dean:

And it sounds pretty good - until you look at the rest of the pamphlet and compare it to reality. I'm sorry Dean. Apologies without fixing the problems just don't cut it.

See, there's a poll worker advertisement in the pamphlet:

But it neglected to mention that only Democrats need apply.

And while the pamphlet is sounding tough on the new identification requirement...

(Pen-ney - get it? Hey, it's as good a name as Shaft, Stretch, or Dick - and serves to remind us that election officials have pens and they will mark up ballots however they want to...)

To those of us who have been election watchers since last November, this is a rather obvious message that the corruption will continue. The address on this 'ID' is none other than the King County elections office and is within the, now infamous, Precinct 1823. This is the location that you can register in if you have no address or if you don't live in Washington state or if you want your vote to count in Seattle rather than in the precinct that you actually live in - in King County.

You may remember that it was the landslide of votes from people who 'live' at the King County elections office that alone gave the gubernatorial race to the former Attorney General Gregoire.

The message is clear: "We here at King County are making some noise about identification - but never fear - we'll accept registration of your identification at a place that you don't live - right here with us - and we'll protect your fraudulent vote - because every vote - even fraudulent ones - must count in King County."

Excuse me, I'm going to be sick.

To be fair, a number of changes have been made - all attempts at making a King County election better.

But none of these things prevent anyone from executing vote fraud for dummies.

And we still don't know to what extent the voter database is actually clean. We know that deceased persons are still receiving absentee ballots. We know that some people are receiving more than one absentee ballot with their cute little voter's pamphlet. *Sigh*

Dear Folks:

I'm writing to let you know that we are entering another election season here in Washington State. I must let you know that King County in our fair state has left the reservation and is somewhere left of the planet. Our election officials continue to be corrupt and incompetent, but they've used taxpayer money to create a second grade level voting manual that apparently also serves as an initiation into some bizarre sex cult. They make some big talk to we little people, but also make it clear that they'll continue to support fraudulent registration practices and despite their claims they fundamentally haven't cleaned up the voter roles.

I don't know whether we'll ever be able to find our way back to earth again.

Other than that, not much new. Hope this note finds you well.

UPDATE: Welcome Sound Politics readers. You'll notice that the links in this post are almost entirely to Sound Politics - really a tribute to Shark's incredible work. If you haven't seen it before, or if you want to see it again, I have video of Brit Hume's interview of Shark at the beginning of this year here.