Maleng Turns The Other Cheek And We Get Mooned

This is rich:

(Seattle Times) [King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng] announced that he won't pursue perjury charges against the Republican leader who filed the challenges, a step some Democrats had urged.

Lori Sotelo, a county GOP vice chairwoman, challenged the registrations of more than 1,900 voters Oct. 26, attesting "under penalty of perjury" that all were registered at non-residential addresses.

Sotelo later withdrew more than 170 challenges, admitting they were mistakes.

County Executive Ron Sims, who joined other Democrats in urging Maleng to investigate possible perjury charges against Sotelo after the errors came to light, is "incredibly disappointed" the prosecutor won't investigate, said spokesman Sandeep Kaushik.

"There are no consequences for [filing unsubstantiated challenges] now," he said.

"It's just going to invite more of this kind of mischief in the future," added Metropolitan King County Councilman Larry Phillips, D-Seattle.

But Maleng said there's no proof that Sotelo lied intentionally.

"There's no criminal intent there," he said.

So let me get this straight: Maleng says there is no proof that Sotelo lied intentionally. She just accidentally perjured herself when she submitted documents under her name, but that were actually filled out by others, that erroneously claimed that she had done the leg-work "under penalty of perjury" to ensure the challenges were adequately vetted.

And Maleng knows this to be unintentional how if he hasn't done an investigation, and doesn't intend to? Did he just ask his Republican friends, and they said, "Nah Norm, it was just an honest mistake"?

How does he know there was no crime committed? How does he discriminate that there was no intention to commit one?

Simply put, how can he make the claims he is making here if he will not look into the matter and do what his office should be doing, i.e. investigating an obvious abuse of the election challenge system?