Sound Politics: Friday Morning in Olympia

March 29, 2007

Friday Morning in Olympia

The House State Government & Tribal Affairs Committee meets Friday morning at 8:30 and has scheduled "possible executive session" for SB 5566 - "Providing for privacy protection for certain voter registration information"

This bill's main purpose is to allow elections officials to conceal negligence and fraud from public scrutiny. For example, it would prohibit these photos showing that King County "accidentally" counted two ballots from this voter in November 2004:

How convenient for the deniers who claim that "election fraud is a myth" if watchdogs are prohibited from publicizing instances when election fraud actually occurs!

UPDATE: TVW indicates that there was no executive session on this bill.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at March 29, 2007 09:45 PM | Email This

Comments

1. Um, maybe this is a naive question, Stefan, but wouldn't you still be able to put this photo up if you pixellated the signature part?

Posted by: Allen McPheeters on March 29, 2007 10:13 PM

2. Are they really going to try to tell us that this woman didn't know she voted twice??? Come on, people....vote fraud happens. Proof right here.

Posted by: Michele on March 29, 2007 11:16 PM

3. #1 Allen, They won't do anything about fraud now, even with proof! If you whiteout the signatures, Sims and Co. will have everyone in Evergreen- Washelli voting.

Posted by: Moondoggie on March 30, 2007 04:34 AM

4. Voter fraud?....King County, WA?.....this is what happens when socialists first get power, then to keep that power. FRAUD...FRAUD...FRAUD. That is thier mantra. No fraud...just errors. The Federal Government need to come in and clean house not only in King County but the state as well. Any state that allows voter fraud to happen is in itself a sorry state....but still typically socialist.

Posted by: Allan Rothlisberg on March 30, 2007 10:00 AM

5. The above was me, not that other guy.

Posted by: Hank Bradley on March 30, 2007 10:07 AM

6. Actually, due to some thumbfingered keyboard work, the above refers to this observation:

A prominent feature of lefty politics is the campaign to suppress or punish the publication of evidence and opposing viewpoints (viz. SB 5566, and John Kerry's brutal attack on an ambassadorial nominee for making a contribution to the Swift Boat guys three years ago), while demanding 'free speech' and wallowing in TV time for their own extreme assertions.

Posted by: Hank Bradley on March 30, 2007 10:15 AM

7. How did Ms. Kelly get two ballots in the first place?

Posted by: Lew on March 30, 2007 11:02 AM