Ron Sims' nephew is illegally registered to vote at Ron Sims' own residence.
Go to the Sound Politics voter database, lookup the 3200 block of Hunter Blvd S in Seattle and scroll down to Sims. In addition to Ron C Sims there are a few other family members, including Donald Cornell Sims, Jr.
As it turns out, Ronald Cordell Sims has a twin brother, Donald Cornell Sims, of Oakland, CA, both born on July 5, 1948. (As an aside, brother Donald seems to have difficulty paying his taxes [go here and search for "Sims, Donald C"] but finds the money to occasionally donate to brother Ronald's campaigns).
Donald C Sims, Jr. registered to vote at Uncle Ron's house on September 3, 1996, curiously one year before enrolling at Eastern Washington University, where he went on to become intramural football MVP in 1999. (We'll punt for now on the question whether Donald really lived at Uncle Ron's house or whether it was a sham residence to claim eligibility for in-state tuition). County records show that Donald Jr. voted in King County in four elections during 1997 and 1998 and again in the September 2004 primary. He graduated from EWU in 2001 and moved to New York State to get a Masters Degree and work as an athletic trainer. He returned to EWU earlier this year to work as a trainer, where the athletics department web page says he "resides in Spokane". Publicly disclosable details from EWU student records confim that this is Ron's nephew.
Because Donald Jr. "resides in Spokane", he is not a legal resident of King County and therefore his registration at Uncle Ron's house is illegal. The voter rolls are undoubtedly full of one-time residents who moved away and neglected to cancel their registrations. But one does expect elected officials to take these matters more seriously, particularly Ron Sims who is ultimately responsible for running King County's elections. Uncle Ron cannot disclaim knowledge and responsibility for his nephew's illegal registration as the elections office mails out all kinds of correspondence to registered voters. Such correspondence for Donald Sims would have been showing up at Ronald Sims' house for the last nine years. Sims should have asked his nephew to cancel his registration and/or have the mail returned as undeliverable.
UPDATE: The registration database I used is the latest statewide release from the Sec. of State's office and the King County data is up-to-date as of June 27. The EWU website shows that Donald Sims took the job in July 2005, so it's possible he updated his registration since the database was released. That would be worth checking. However, that site also says he was living and working in New York for the past few years, so clearly was not lawfully registered to vote during that time.
UPDATE 2 (Aug. 18): I have now learned that Don Jr. graduated from high school in California, lending credence to the theory that he registered to vote in Washington primarily to be eligible for resident tuition at EWU. Also, as of this date he is still registered to vote at Uncle Ron's house in Seattle.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at August 09, 2005 05:36 PM | Email ThisThanks to Stefan, Ronnie's true color is more vivid than ever.
Posted by: C. Oh on August 9, 2005 06:08 PMIt would be great to make an example of The King.
Posted by: Delerious Moonbat on August 9, 2005 06:50 PMLeonard Kleinrock at MIT published the first paper on packet switching theory in July 1961 and the first book on the subject in 1964. Kleinrock convinced Roberts of the theoretical feasibility of communications using packets rather than circuits, which was a major step along the path towards computer networking. The other key step was to make the computers talk together. To explore this, in 1965 working with Thomas Merrill, Roberts connected the TX-2 computer in Mass. to the Q-32 in California with a low speed dial-up telephone line creating the first (however small) wide-area computer network ever built. The result of this experiment was the realization that the time-shared computers could work well together, running programs and retrieving data as necessary on the remote machine, but that the circuit switched telephone system was totally inadequate for the job. Kleinrock's conviction of the need for packet switching was confirmed.
In late 1966 Roberts went to DARPA to develop the computer network concept and quickly put together his plan for the "ARPANET", publishing it in 1967. At the conference where he presented the paper, there was also a paper on a packet network concept from the UK by Donald Davies and Roger Scantlebury of NPL. Scantlebury told Roberts about the NPL work as well as that of Paul Baran and others at RAND. The RAND group had written a paper on packet switching networks for secure voice in the military in 1964. It happened that the work at MIT (1961-1967), at RAND (1962-1965), and at NPL (1964-1967) had all proceeded in parallel without any of the researchers knowing about the other work. The word "packet" was adopted from the work at NPL and the proposed line speed to be used in the ARPANET design was upgraded from 2.4 kbps to 50 kbps. 5
Posted by: History of Internet on August 9, 2005 06:55 PMThe other interesting twist is that Sims nephews are named Don & Ron. I've been calling Sims....Don Ron Sims King for months now. How ironic.
Posted by: Mr. Cynical on August 9, 2005 07:16 PMWhy the muzzle? P.C.? Fear of his power? Diversity? Where are the opposition attack dogs & mud slingers? Forgot--it's summer--drought--no water to make mud in Seattle. Sheesh.
Posted by: Jimmie-howya-doin on August 9, 2005 07:31 PM(just paying tribute to the long-since-departed Nelson)
Posted by: Danny on August 9, 2005 07:59 PMI had to read this one to my husband......He's still laughing! (I don't think Ron Sims is going to be able to spin this one away....)
Isn't it a *crime* to be *illegally* registered to vote in Washington State? I wonder if Donald C Jr. is also registered to vote in Spokane County?......(Nope! I checked our Spokane database under his name and didn't find it...)
How in the heck is Uncle Ron going to fix this one??? (snicker)
Posted by: Deborah on August 9, 2005 08:04 PMAnd another truly amazing part of this story is that someone would actually name twin boys Ronald and Donald. Oy!
Posted by: SheriJo on August 9, 2005 08:17 PMWhether it be their stance against requiring ID at the polls, turning the other way on large numbers of voters registered to mail and storage facilities and public buildings, or absentee voter fraud like that of Ron Sims' nephew, to Democrats, it's all within bounds.
I really believe that people like Ron Sims' newphew see casting their vote in any election they happen to hear about, in any state, is completely legit, because they feel they should be a part of any informal poll in which they take interest.
I wonder how many of these folks vote in elections of other states or countries while they are on vacation? Why not, they might find an interesting issue.
It's all part of the elitist arrogance ingrained in the left mindset. Voting in Seattle, even if you don't live there, is your right, as long as you are voting "for the cause." The ends justify the means.
Posted by: Jeff B. on August 9, 2005 08:47 PMI challenge any troll out there to name one thing, then back it up with factual evidence.
Posted by: KS on August 9, 2005 09:09 PMTalk about chickens coming home to roost. Or in this case illegal voters living at home. (snicker snicker, guffaw)
Maybe Ron "Tax to the Max" Sims should hire the twins too run the elections department, after all it sounds like they have "experience in the field.
Posted by: JCM on August 9, 2005 09:32 PMTalk about chickens coming home to roost. Or in this case illegal voters living at home. (snicker snicker, guffaw)
Maybe Ron "Tax to the Max" Sims should hire the twins too run the elections department, after all it sounds like they have "experience in the field.
Posted by: JCM on August 9, 2005 09:32 PMAm I wrong?
Posted by: BananaLand (aka Iguana) on August 9, 2005 10:37 PMOff topic, but every time I see Ron-Don, I think of some fat belly hanging over a surf board named Ron-John or something!
oh yea--ERNurse--respect you guy--great point--"2 peas"--but forgive me if I don't do the "cough" in your place, ok? :)
Maybe the phrase "Your'e Fired!" now should take on a new meaning?! On a university payroll? no surprise;
When snagged inside the net of real facts, let's wait for the smiling, polite news conference 5-second tidbit saying "Oh--I leave that paperwork & details up to my assistants and interns." (fade to commercial)
Posted by: Jimmie-howya-doin on August 9, 2005 11:40 PMLegal residence for voting purposes is not necessarily only where you happen to be living at the time. A Washington resident who moves out of state but intends to return can remain a legal resident of Washington state indefinitely, even if they do not actually return. The intention to return is good enough. Also, there is absolutely nothing wrong with going to New York for a Masters degree and retaining Washington State residency. You may not like the law, but that is the law.
As to living in Spokane while being registered here, it is probably okay if rsidence there is intended to be temporary. But I don't know whether there is a rule or statute that concerns changing voting registration while moving within the state, or how quickly it needs to be done.
Posted by: wayne on August 10, 2005 10:08 AMIf I move from Seattle to Spokane or out of state, who is responsible to cancel my voter registration in King County? Is it me, Dean Logan, Department of Licensing via motor voter?
What is the penalty for not canceling a registration? When someone is moving the last thing on their to do list is to cancel a registration.
BTW First time post and Stafan you are doing good work. Thanks
Clearly, although Gore's phrasing was clumsy (and perhaps self-serving), he was not claiming that he "invented" the Internet (in the sense of having designed or implemented it), but that he was responsible, in an economic and legislative sense, for fostering the development the I also invented the microphone technology that we now know as the Internet. To claim that Gore was seriously trying to take credit for the "invention" of the Internet is, frankly, just silly political posturing that arose out of a close presidential campaign. Gore never used the word "invent," and the words "create" and "invent" have distinctly different meanings — the former is used in the sense of "to bring about" or "to bring into existence" while the latter is generally used to signify the first instance of someone's thinking up or implementing an idea. (To those who say the words "create" and "invent" mean exactly the same thing, we have to ask why, then, the media overwhelmingly and consistently cited Gore as having claimed he "invented" the Internet, even though he never used that word, and transcripts of what he actually said were readily available.)
If President Eisenhower had said in the mid-1960s that he, while President, "created" the Interstate Highway System, we would not have seen dozens and dozens of editorials lampooning him for claiming he "invented" the concept of highways or implying that he personally went out and dug ditches across the country to help build the roadway. Everyone would have understood that Ike meant he was a driving force behind the legislation that created the highway system, and this was the very same concept Al Gore was expressing about himself with his Internet statement.
Posted by: Mickymse on August 10, 2005 12:24 PMIf either political party leaves any of these LOADED bank deposit purses ("tidbits") on the open table, they are either:
1--too stupid to be an opportunist;
2--in collusion with the whole status quo;
#1 won't surprise me--I still see running, unattended cars at the a.t.m.'s around Seattle;
#2 REALLY scares me--even for this big-city-raised boy;