"Yes, I am biased -- against stupidity"
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports: The state elections director is biased against the Republicans in their legal challenge to the 2004 governor's election, a GOP lawyer suggested strongly in court today.
While cross-examining elections director Nick Handy, lawyer Dale Foreman cited a letter Handy wrote in January to lawyers for the secretary of state's office, where Handy works.
That letter, Handy testified, was designed to communicate his conclusion that Republican claims regarding how many voters cast ballots were baseless. The GOP has said discrepancies between the number of ballots counted and the number of voters credited with voting could indicate fraud.
"If we can successfully demonstrate that this is an unfounded claim, I would hope that this would severely undermine the confidence of the court in the other R claims," Handy wrote.
On the stand, Handy said there are some claims that have been pursued by the Republicans that "I do not believe are valid claims ... I thought this was really undermining the trust and confidence of the average voter in the election system in a way that was not fair or accurate." -- State elections director biased, GOP suggests
Note: The quote in the title is my interpretation of what Director Handy meant, but did not say.