Residence, Schmesidence (More King County Vote Fraud)

Sound Politics ^ | 12/30/04 | Stefan Sharkansky

[freespirited]

As we've mentioned before, hundreds of people in King County have registered to vote giving their "permanent residence" at an address where they obviously don't live.

In addition to bona fide homeless people who are permitted by agency rules to register at government buildings, we also find people who own and live in real homes who have registered at government buildings, and hundreds of people who have registered at private mailbox services and storage rental facilities. Many of these people voted absentee from out-of-state and overseas addresses. Their standing to vote in Washington State is highly questionable.

State law clearly defines a residence for voting purposes. I've discussed the issue of registering at uninhabited residences with two senior officials at the Secretary of State's office. Both believe this is illegal. although neither has statutory authority to issue opinions or take action to enforce this.

I also caught up with King County Superintendent of Elections Bill Huennekens, who has always been helpful and forthright in answering my questions, even when this might reveal errors and shortcomings in King County election procedures. The gist of his remarks was that registering at a private mailbox is not lawful, but his office has little statutory authority to deal with the problem. The registrars will not accept a residence address at a standard P.O. Box. There is no specific statute on this, but they use "common sense" in rejecting postal box addresses. By implication they could use common sense in rejecting private mail box residences, as does Pierce County [see the reader comment]. Huennekens claims that they can't know about all of the addresses that are private mail box services, but that they will and have rejected registrants who use the label PMB in their residence address. They have also tried to "clean up" such registrations by contacting the voters and requesting a valid address. (In fact, private mailbox services are regulated by the USPS, so a list must exist somewhere. Also, I see several current registrations where PMB is used in the "apartment number", among them very recent registrations and people who actually voted this election).

Huennekens also said that even if his office does find people who are registered at illegal addresses, he has no statutory authority to simply cancel their registrations, which is governed by RCW 29A.08 510,515,520.

The burden falls on the county prosecutor and on the legitimately registered voters to challenge the registrations of alleged illegally registered voters. In some cases, an improper registration can be grounds for a felony conviction.

As Bob Williams of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation e-mailed me yesterday regarding the residence issue:

Looks like you uncovered a big mess.

I think we have. It would interesting if the path to overturning this election is to prosecute dozens of people for registering to vote at illegal addresses. What are the Democrats going to do to protect governor-pretend Fraudoire's claim on the governorship? Supply lawyers to defend the rights of unknown people to vote at fictitious addresses? Intriguingly, one of the people in King County who has registered and voted at an illegal address is a very prominent citizen for whom a felony conviction (or even an investigation) for fraudulent voter registration could end their career. This is someone I think a lot of Democrats would feel bad about losing if they end up being sacrificed in this tsunami of illegitimate voting.

[farmfriend]

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[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!