And yet another payout by King County for failing to produce public records: Sound Politics blogger Stefan Sharkansky reports he has settled his record dispute with the county for $225,000, which, he notes, is one of the largest settlements for public records violations in state history. The lawsuit arose from his December 2004 request for a list of all voters who voted in the November 2004 election. “The county did not satisfy my request in full until January 2007,” the Shark writes. “The documents that they eventually provided to me revealed that county election officials unlawfully counted hundreds of ineligible ballots in the 2004 election: a multiple of Christine Gregoire’s 133-vote ‘margin of victory’ over Dino Rossi in the contested gubernatorial race. Documentation of these illegal votes was withheld from discovery in the election contest trial and not released to me until months after the trial. Consequently, the trial was conducted in ignorance of these potentially outcome-changing illegal votes.”