WA: Group to file initiative that would require all voters to reregister

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002820464_webvote21.html

By RACHEL LA CORTE
The Associated Press

OLYMPIA, Wash. – Voters would have to prove they are U.S. citizens and reregister to vote under an initiative that supporters said they will file this week.

Conservative think-tank Evergreen Freedom Foundation has formed Grassroots Washington, which is backing the initiative that was expected to be announced Wednesday afternoon.

... The initiative would make all voter registrations inactive until people proved their citizenship and reregistered. Voters who show up at the polls and find they are inactive can vote by provisional ballot until their registration is verified, he said.

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Can you image if the dems were pulling this shit?

Heads. Would. Roll. And rightfully so. What the hell is going on in this country?

...is that an increasing number (possibly even a majority by now) of Washington voters do so by absentee ballot.

While those actually showing up at the polls would have to bring "proof of citizenship," those who rely upon absentee ballots would simply stop receiving them. That would mean that a large number of those voters (the elderly and those with incapacitating illnesses, to name a couple of groups that couldn't just respond by showing up at the polls with their passports or birth certificates) would be disenfranchised. As, for that matter, would be anyone without "appropriate" documents -- and do you know how hard it is to get a duplicate birth certificate, particularly if you were born at the other end of the country?

Well, that's the only way to turn Washington into a red state -- preventing most of the voters from being able to cast a ballot.

:grr:

there will be a HUGE fuss made.

Instead of saying "A community group, Grassroots Washington, is backing the initiative that was expected to be announced Wednesday afternoon."

This reporter gave us all the details.

"Conservative think-tank Evergreen Freedom Foundation has formed Grassroots Washington, which is backing the initiative that was expected to be announced Wednesday afternoon."

they included a great quote from Excell -

"Just because we don't happen to think that every voter record is perfect we can't wholesale disenfranchise everybody," he said.


important info to fight the RW spin -

Excell said investigators had not found any evidence of illegal votes, and noted that most of the questioned registrations were inactive, meaning that the individuals hadn't voted recently. Many of the duplicates likely represent people who failed to cancel their registration in one county when they moved to another, he said.


I love the Seattle Times. :) I haven't picked up an Oregonian in months. :(

I like the Seattle Times, too--when I can get it down here. Borders hasn't got many northern papers in a while...:(

:)

And yes, the Oregonian sucks. OK, if I find a copy on the bus, I might pick it up, for the LTTEs. None of the rest has any real information.

The Faces of Meth was a great piece, but unfortunately was an aberration.

I'll check it out online! Is Oregon really conservative, or is it blended. I used to communicate on a board, and a few of the Oregon members were rabidly neo-conservative. :scared: They were rather frightening actually.

areas. There are pockets of very red, but no worries, we outnumber them.

that guy was so rabid was because he was so outnumbered. He was SO whacked out! One of those people that just quotes rush all the time. Severe head case. ;)

I've got to visit, I'm always so thrilled to see you guys on the news protesting--does my heart good! LOL!

it should read Oh that's great... So sorry. :blush:

Sour grapes here. And a healthy dose of scepticism about that paper. If you want a liberal view, the PI is even better.

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