Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire

The King County election board has been caught in yet another lie. King County was very, very late in sending out its overseas military ballots. In fact, they were the last in the entire nation to send out ballots. So late, that the US Department of Justice threatened to sue King County. King County negotiated with DOJ and promised to have the ballots in the mail by October 8. They didn't. The ballots were mailed out on October 10.

"Yesterday was the second time in two days that King County elections officials corrected a factual error. They changed the county's election Web site Sunday to correct the date when absentee ballots were sent to 3,055 military and overseas voters. The county initially reported the ballots were mailed Oct. 10, two days after a deadline negotiated with the federal government.

The online fact sheet now says ballots were mailed Oct. 7."

The Seattle Times story neglects to identify the person who caught King County in the lie. Of course, it was a blogger, and not a reporter.