1. Loveridge's situation is odd.

In your "voter database," she appears as having first registered to vote in 1980:
LOVERIDGE HELEN 50o HARVARD AVE E SEATTLE - Y - 1980

Is the data base incorrect?

When did she last vote in King County?

When did she live in King County?

See this "bio" in which it appears that she may have lived and worked in Europe for about 22 years. And this article, which indicates she came to Seattle in 2001.

Posted by: Micajah on September 14, 2005 11:25 AM

2. Micajah -- even odder, she's not listed in the June 2004 version of the database, suggesting that she was "inactive". For some reason she was subsequently reactivated. Her record shows a "last transaction date" of August 3, 2004.

Posted by: Stefan Sharkansky on September 14, 2005 11:30 AM

3. What really odd is that she has a registration year of 1980. She has been registered in King County for 25 years.

There may be more here than meets the eye.

Perhaps she had a legitimate dual citizenship and renounced the US portion.

Perhaps she still has a legitimate dual citizenship, but feels that she cannot be a "full" citizen and vote without living in the US.

Perhaps the new resident of her apartment improperly wrote that message on her ballot without knowing anything at all for certain about her citizenship or voter registration status.

It just seems very strange that she would be registered in King County for 25 years, and this is the first that she has spoken up about not being a citizen (if that was her who wrote on the ballot).

Back in 1980, we had to register with a "voter registrar" and show ID and provide the city or town in which we were born. If our birthplace was outside of the US or its territories, we had to show proof that we were a US citizen.

It seems there may be more to this story than we have heard so far...

Posted by: Susan B. Anthony on September 14, 2005 11:34 AM

4. I should add that Intelius and zabbasearch come up with only one Helen Loveridge in Seattle.

I've contacted the SIFF to reach Loveridge. They promised to ask her to contact me.

Posted by: Stefan Sharkansky on September 14, 2005 11:35 AM

5. It's possible that two different Helen Loveridges' records have been conflated together in an attempt to remove duplicates.

This is the flip side to sloppiness leading to duplicate records of the same person - not doing enough research when deleting duplicates, and assuming two people of similar name are one person and mashing the two records togther, and then deleting one.

Posted by: Susan B. Anthony on September 14, 2005 11:38 AM

6. Her status wasn't challenged, because we don't want to discourage aliens from exercising their right to vote (?)

Posted by: schmak on September 14, 2005 11:51 AM

7. Considering what we have been learning about KC election dept...bet you chocolate that this was never investigated or checked, but she recently received a new voter registration card anyway.

Posted by: dl on September 14, 2005 12:36 PM

8. I've always thought - that after all that's been uncovered, a mandatory audit and investigation into ALL who use the King County Admin building and paid PO Box rentals as their residence or mailing addresses is in order!

Sure - there will be many who are legally registered to vote - but there would probably be more that are found to be non-citizens and non-residents and possibly double voters and felons using those addresses for voter registration.

There are enough to sway an election outcome - yet not too many to overwhelm an investigation!
Maleng's office has the resources to check these people out - whether they are US citizens or felons or citizens of another state!

Posted by: Deborah on September 14, 2005 06:10 PM

9. Nice to see it's a felony to use a PO Box as your residence for submitting tabs and the WSDOT have gone overboard to let you know you'll get busted....but for voting? Heck, just put down a cross-street....Ugh!!!

Posted by: Dengle on September 14, 2005 09:49 PM

10. OMG.... I can't believe it. you've found another voter on the roles who is questionable. When are we going to throw the entire Democratic Party in jail and prosecute them for capital crimes?

Why don't you folks just get your guns out and take over the gov't of King County? Clearly you could do a much better job.

Posted by: unkl witz on September 14, 2005 09:56 PM

11. NOT REALLY STRANGE. MANY PEOPLE REFUSE JURY DUTY WITH THE EXCUSE THAT THEY ARE NOT CITIZENS! MORE THAN YOU KNOW. AND THEY ALL HAD TO VOTE TO GET CALLED TO JURY DUTY!

Posted by: RICHARD HIGGS on September 14, 2005 10:24 PM

12. Unkle Witless: This is one example of literally thousands of questionable ballots. Your "No big deal" defense only works if you don't care about election accuracy. If it can be proven that a voter intentionally voted illegally, he/she should be punished, and if it can be proven that a public official was derilict in his duties or purposly encouraged voter fraud, they should be imprisoned.

Posted by: Gary J on September 15, 2005 07:43 AM

13. My Mom is a German citizen and she has received correspondance from King County at least 4 times saying that SHE had contacted them to get registered to vote and asking her for more information. She has no idea what may have generated this because she knows she can't vote, she's called repeatedly with the latest time being last month asking that her name be removed from whatever list they're pulling from to write to her so we'll see if she hears from them again.

Posted by: RitaSV on September 15, 2005 07:46 AM

14. RitaSV's story sounds like KC has been phishing for registrations - how did they get her name and address - phone book?? -- but what is especially disturbing is their implying that she had initiated the registration inquiry -- these phishing attempts are illegal and a mark of extremely fraudulent and unethical (business) practices.

Posted by: bill on September 15, 2005 08:11 AM

15. This is getting more than a little rediculous.

How can a blogger supposedly find all these error's, bring them to the attention of the King County elections office and corrections not made to the voter rolls?

Something doesn't add up here.

Either the blogger is (lying/misinformed/incorrect) or King County (incompetant/illegal)

what other possible explanations are there? seriously?

Posted by: HoldOnHere on September 15, 2005 08:55 AM

16. "Why don't you folks just get your guns out and take over the ....."

... as Witz whistles past the graveyard.

Posted by: jimg on September 15, 2005 09:33 AM

17. Remember? There ARE NO noncitizens registered and voting.

Posted by: martinringhofer on September 15, 2005 10:05 AM

18. Unkl--
Forget the hyperbole.

Slop is slop. Wrong is wrong. When fixing your house or when voting. Will you give a pass to the plumber that messes up your drain and pipes? Nope.

This is about voting. Where is that on your scale of relative importance? Why tolerate crap?
I'm sure you don't re-visit lousy restaurants, so why not the hoopla here about something vastly more important--our voting rights?

Do you want your home tap water to be "almost clean?" or "pretty close to acceptable for bacteria?!" Same principle here.

Posted by: Jimmie-howya-doin on September 15, 2005 01:06 PM

19. Hey--if Dems would just allow common sense to reign and people had to show proof of citizenship, people like this would never be an issue. Common sense NOW!!

Posted by: Michele on September 16, 2005 05:19 PM

20. But it just becomes clearer and more clear how King County controls what happens in WA state. I think the 'fishing' for voters thing sounds pretty legitimate. They sign people up with inadequate verifications, and then claim they aren't the ones who have to challenge registrations. How clever.

I think WA is more Republican than we think. Just look at this garbage that's coming out. Clean it all up and what would we be left with? I think the answer would surprise a lot of people

Posted by: Michele on September 16, 2005 05:24 PM

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