Citizens for Accountable Elections received final approval for its petitions. It now has 90 days (until June 20) to collect 54,732 valid signatures of King County voters. If successful, the following question will appear on this November's ballot:
Shall the King County Charter be amended to require that the county director of elections be a nonpartisan elected office?Polling shows that if the measure qualifies for the ballot, it WILL pass. But collecting enough signatures will take both money and work. If you want to help gather signatures in King County, e-mail: info .AT. accountableelections.org to request petitions.
The timeline also demands paid signature gathering. Whether you live in King County or elsewhere, everybody has an interest in fair elections in King County. Join me and contribute to ensure that the measure qualifies and wins. Donate online here. $20? $100? $1,000? What are fair elections worth to you?
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at March 22, 2007 07:09 PM | Email Thiswhat you propose doing is a Class C felony.
I'll let the campaign know to press charges against you if a lot of Mickey Mouse signatures happen to show up.
Posted by: Stefan Sharkansky on March 22, 2007 08:29 PMRots of ruck!
Posted by: Unk on March 22, 2007 08:44 PMThe democrats in this state, yeh the same ones who are so regularly telling you that every vote should count, just passed a measure that will throw out all of your initiative votes if the individual collecting them doesn't sign on the correct line.
Gotta love em. Glad they are so interested in your vote.
Posted by: GS on March 22, 2007 09:00 PMWhat an idiot. He thinks that a pseudonym protects one's identity. WRONG! Someone in the unemployment line must have given little Johnnie Richie Kiker the wrong information.
Publish a picture of John Richard Kiker. I'll volunteer to collect signature just on the off chance that he'll commit a felony and sign my petition with a false name.
Hey, JRK, I submit that your name in prison will be either "Bitch Kiker," or "Ben Dover." Enjoy the love.
As a final parting shot from the "tolerant" left, little Richie, @4, goes out of his way to insult via a racial slur, Stefan's wife.
Thank you, "Unk," "Unkl Witz," and John Richard Kiker for exposing the hateful left.
Posted by: Obi-Wan on March 22, 2007 10:14 PMTypical LIB... it's your way or no way.
So much for EVERYONES rights!
Posted by: Army Medic/Vet on March 23, 2007 07:45 AMBest of luck getting signatures on something that relativity few people beyond this blog actually care about.
good luck to those gathering signatures!
Posted by: dinesh on March 23, 2007 10:06 AMHowever you may want to look at the Portland Oregon region for the long term results of "non-partisan" elections.
I just am not a huge fan of non-partisan positions anymore. Because they are ALL partisan they just don't like to say it. What has happened in the Portland Metro area is that those "non-partisan" seats have become a breeding ground for the leftist of the left and there is no "opposition" party to offer an alternative. Thus what has happened is that the metro republican party has become increasingly marginalized to the point that it is now utterly irrelevant.
Yip Yip
Posted by: Coyote on March 23, 2007 11:08 AMcoyote, the same over here.
Posted by: swatter on March 23, 2007 11:16 AMIt doesn't matter what the other counties do....we need to address the problems here. And as evidenced by what happens in King County, the elections director is a political position.
In fact, any appointee/nominee is a political person. To think otherwise is lacking some reality. The DCIA is not an elected official, yet they often seem to change with every administration, regardless of qualifications or reasons other than political/philisophical.
Support this initative so any skeptism at all can be better avoided. We need some accountability to re-establish trust and faith in the process and office.