Sound Politics: EFF to Norm Maleng: Enforce state elections laws

August 25, 2005

EFF to Norm Maleng: Enforce state elections laws

In a follow-up to Norm Maleng's talk at the Downtown Seattle Republican Club last week, the "EFF sent him a letter encouraging him to enforce election laws"

The Evergreen Freedom Foundation (EFF) today called on King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng to enforce the state's election laws vigorously and prosecute violators.

In a letter to Maleng , EFF's election reform project manager Bob Edelman said, “There has been a failure to enforce election laws in our state and so violations have mushroomed to the extent that integrity of the system has been seriously compromised and the ability of officials to restore fair elections is in question.”

The EFF's letter is here. An online video of Maleng's talk and Q&A session is here. The portion that I transcribed here starts at about 21:00. (The video has technical difficulties and dies shortly after 38:00).

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Comments

1. We live in a lawless society. There are no laws broken in the eyes of those that choose to enforce it. It crosses all party lines. Liberals live by it. Norm Maleng is a toad. He croaks and croaks, and still he sits and does nothing.

Norm, if your listening, get off your a$$ and enforce the laws. What are you doing man?

Posted by: RealMen on August 25, 2005 12:42 PM

2. Doesn't anybody in a position with the authority to enforce state election laws care enough to actually do their job? What's it gonna take, a posse of citizens who care to go round up the law breakers? Its time for some folks in postions of suthority to step up and start enforcing the laws by trying and prosecuting the scofflaws.

Posted by: Gary on August 25, 2005 12:56 PM

3. Does King County elected officials, and King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng, or the FBI, Police, you name them; do they enforce the law? No! What is up with this state? Do the Liberals have have complete control on who gets busted? Are our Judges immune to the law?

And who is this Ivan guy think he is? Maybe we should wall off Seattle and Olympia, and start a new law abiding, government by the people.

We could shove all the liberals into camps and let them sing songs and have marches around Vladimir Lenin's statue. Let them eat cake. Just keep them away from our taxes and property.

This state is going nuts.

Posted by: Out-o-here on August 25, 2005 01:05 PM

4. If the Republicans ran this state like the Democrat liberals, the national news stories would never end. They would be handing out Pulitzer Prize Award, journalists honors, Edward R. Morrow Award, Oscars & Tony Awards. The law would be demanded to be upheld.

This state and all its elected officals are so full of sh**!

Posted by: Mehutch on August 25, 2005 01:22 PM

5. Is this how a progressive liberal society is run?

Posted by: 2Red on August 25, 2005 01:33 PM

6. I'm with EFF. Election law must be enforced! Stop giving cheaters the ability to cancel out the votes of the rest of us who had to follow election law to cast our votes. I can't understand why the 'powers that be' don't 'get' that?? (except that they like the cheating because it gets them what they wanted...?)

Posted by: Michele on August 25, 2005 01:47 PM

7. Hey folks, lay off of Norm. He's part of that comfy little power elite. We rabble should know our place, and not bother an important man like that.

Posted by: TB on August 25, 2005 02:47 PM

8. TB (or not TB - that is the question),

You don't need to tell us to lay off Maleng. Notice how the MSM has ignored this news along with any other news that might hurt Maleng's chances for re-election.

Posted by: BJ Gadfly on August 25, 2005 07:23 PM

9. Oh yeah......I can see Maleng getting right on that recommendation!.......(NOT!)

I just don't see anything (and believe me - everyone has more than helped to reveal mountains of evidence of corruption and illegal activities in our elections)....ANYTHING - emails, letters, lawsuits, advice...etc... that will suddenly inject a sense of patriotic and legal duty into our city, county, state and federal law enforcment in Washington State!

It's as though we've been quietly taken over by communist China or Mother Russia and no one has let us in on it yet....

Posted by: Deborah on August 25, 2005 09:15 PM

10. The state election laws will be enforced just like the national immigration laws are enforced. In fact, they are somewhat tied together.

Posted by: Susu on August 25, 2005 11:26 PM

11. When in Rome do as the Romans; when in Washington do as the .... Vote early and vote often. Obviously anybody can and nobody cares. I gauge that there is at least a 10,000 vote hedge for the neocoms in Seattle, probably similiar hedges in surrounding counties. Given the builtin hedge, the solution is obvious, don't whine, just do as the Romans.

Posted by: snuffy on August 26, 2005 10:07 AM

12. Ayn Rand; where are you? In her novels ATLAS SHRUGGED, FOUNTAINHEAD, and WE THE LIVING, she absolutely nails the liberal mindset. She also gives us a peek at their hypocricy (i.e. "if WE do it it's OK..."). Lawlessness is OK if it benefits liberals. They view the Constitution as a "living document" able to be molded and changed to "reflect society". That's why they want no part of Supreme Court nominees who are strict constructionists. In the liberal view of the future, nobody is going to be above the government, nobody is going to be above anyone else, the "greater good" will prevail over individual freedom, and a doctor and a burger flipper will be paid the same. The only immunity anyone will have from the sameness of socialism will be to have a job in government, where you can use whatever power your crummy little job yeilds to get things you want. Read Rand's books. She's absolutely prophetic.

Posted by: Scott C on August 26, 2005 03:05 PM

13. "when in Washington do as the .... Vote early and vote often. Obviously anybody can and nobody cares."

Actually - Now that our primary mandates that we choose a party.....I'll bet someone cares! Imagine how easy it is now to distinguish between Democrat and Republican voters and votes! Imagine how dificult it was before - to know which votes to lose (wink wink) and which votes to keep when we could vote across party lines....

Single party primaries, all mail voting, cultures of corruption in election offices, illegal immigrant drivers licenses with voter registration ability, provisional ballots indistinguishable from regular ballots, election software that can't tally outgoing and incoming absentee ballots, allowing the use of government buldings as residence address's for voter registration - even for non-citizens in other countries, etc.....It's a perfect storm for election fraud and corruption! Norm?? What exactly DON'T you see here?

Who in the Hell in this State was soooooo STUPID?? Look at what has been going on in Washington State elections?? Did someone think this stuff up or was it just random idiocy?
I think they've covered just about every way to possibly screw up and render our elections invalid.

Posted by: Deborah on August 26, 2005 10:24 PM

14. And ther'e wondering why I-900 & 912 passed?! What I really love is that our politicans think they can overturn it truly laughable!!!

Posted by: Laurie on August 29, 2005 07:50 AM