Posted on 12/27/2004 8:50:24 PM PST by freespirited
Add this to the list of King County voter irregularities. Hundreds of "Seattle voters" list as their residence address various private mailbox services and storage rental facilities.
This would seem to be inconsistent with the state's legal definition of residence for voting purposes.
A spokesperson for the Secretary of State's office seemed surprised to learn about the large number of mailbox and storage locker registrations. She initially suggested the explanation that these are mailing addresses. They are not. All of these voters are precincted at such addresses, and many have alternate mailing addresses, some of which are in other states and countries. She referred me to King County Elections for an explanation. The person I reached at King County is off on holiday today and promised to give me a more comprehensive answer tomorrow. In the meantime he said that it's "complicated" and that the county "doesn't have a list of all of the private mail services". I interpret that to mean that they recognize this to be a problem, but don't have a good way of dealing with it. I promise to follow up with him tomorrow and get some more information on this.
The existence of hundreds of registered voters at non-residential addresses is an obvious security hole, and the lack of procedures to prevent such registrations is an open invitation to commit fraud. When a voter is registered at a real address, her neighbors and others can verify for themselves whether that person is a live human being who is eligible to vote. When people are registered at private mailbox services, who knows who these people are, whether or not they even pick-up their mail there, whether they're eligible and competent, or if they even exist?
Indeed, I've already found some seriously suspicious cases, such as where three or more people share the same mailbox, are all registered as permanent absentee voters and have unusual coincidences in names and voting history.
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I hope Stefan has made this information available to Chris Vance and the state party.
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Someone needs to get their arms around this latest DemonRat scheme.
Find out who they are, pretty easy, and arrest them. This is the highest crime against democracy. These people are socialist pigs and should be in prison.
Stefan just posted this list of questions the Republicans have submitted to King (he calls it Ukraine) County:
http://www.soundpolitics.com/WSRPQuestionsForKingCo.pdf
Wascally Wepublicans, no doubt, giving fake addwesses.
Or maybe is it Democwats?
Walking away from this fight is just plain wrong.
Being the "noble" agrieved looser is not going to cut it this time. We must fight and fight with every fiber of every LEGAL option.
Hmmm, I wonder just what party that most of the voters in King County vote for?
Where there is fraud, you will find 'Rats running the show.
I'd be willing to bet that ACORN was in WA registering voters. They did it in NM, FL, OH and God knows where else. I want to see them investigated. I personally think the trail will lead right back to the RAT party!!
I have been gone, what are the Republicans doing to counter the King Co. "found" votes being counted?
It's not clear to me that it matters what the excuse is. If you go to the original post at soundpolitics.com (scroll down to about the fourth entry) there is a link to the law imbedded in the original post. As you can see, the law requires that the address on the registration be where the person actually resides. If the mailbox address isn't where the person actually resides, the registration may well be invalid.
It could be that the city has some arrangement for homeless people--perhaps they are supposed to give the address of a shelter where they are known--but I'm going to take a WAG that using a private maildrop or storage locker isn't the proper procedure.
If the county or the state can't do their job...then either fire them or place them in a holding cell thus letting their number two take charge (and tell the guy he will go to the holding cell if he can't do the job). Why bother having elections if you can't control them and have a fair & accurate election? We might as well appoint a king and just let the dude rule.
I don't have a problem with any citizen (even a homeless type) voting that is registered. And I can understand some folks having a problem about the address...but there ought to be a standard rule about this. And it ought to be real clear about how it works. This whole thing smells...like someone is registering bogus Canadians in Seattle.
I still had the link open. Here is the law about the address requirement:
http://www.leg.wa.gov/RCW/index.cfm?section=29A.04.151&fuseaction=section
Liberal-ville. Any suprise???
Absolutely agree!!!
Thanks. That means that the law is on our side, too bad that Lib judges dont really care about written laws.
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