SB 5561 "Allowing voter frauder registration up to and on election day" is scheduled for possible executive session at 1:30 in the House State Government and Tribal Affairs Committee.
(Vote-fraud mafia ACORN testified for the bill in the Senate last month)
A very good bill is also scheduled for possible executive session in the same committee -- SSB 5435 "Creating the public records exemptions accountability committee". Introduced at the request of Attorney General Rob McKenna, this will create a panel of citizens and officials to review exemptions to the Public Records Act.
We used to require registration be completed at least 30 days before election and most of our votes were cast at the polls. This allowed plenty of time to process registrations prior to election day.
Then we changed this to 15 days, if done in person at the county elections office, and if an absentee ballot were cast. This still allowed 15 days before the election to process the registration (plus the canvassing period after the election, if the registration was questionable).
Now people can register to vote on election day, and elections staff will be busy processing these applications, in addition to doing all the other canvassing work?
Even if no fraud or mistakes were committed, the administrative overload would be severe. I think we had a several hundred people at King County Elections on Monday, October 18, 2004, 15 days before the 2004 general election, registering to vote:
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=voterreg19m&date=20041019
If registration is available on election day, more people will know that and take advantage of it, than would be the case now, where fewer people know of the special 15 day registration period. This will especially be the case in Presidential election years, because that is usually the only time the infrequent and less careful voter votes.
Can you imagine the scene on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at King County Elections if this bill passes? There will be thousands of people down there trying to register, overflowing the county administration building. People will probably still be in line well past 8 p.m. -- and able to follow the early returns on their radios or portable internet devices.
All this while King County Elections is actually trying to administer "Election Day" at the same time!
Posted by: Richard Pope on March 28, 2007 01:28 PMI could see how to do this without any sort of fraud, however. Just get busloads of people (who have already voted by mail) to stand in line, obstensively for the purpose of completing new voter registration forms (with their real and correct information) for the purpose of updating their signatures. This would make the lines longer and perhaps discourage people who hadn't voted already and still needed to register from doing so.
However, this would require REAL people -- physical beings to stand in line. The ACORN registration frauds have involved a few people submitting hundreds of fake registration information forms. You can't create a long waiting line with FAKE people.
Posted by: Richard Pope on March 28, 2007 03:31 PMIt's high time that there be some accountability in voters - they should at bear minimum, be able to read and write IN ENGLISH, and be able to pass at least a most elemental/basic test on the democratic process.
Posted by: Paul O' The East on March 28, 2007 09:46 PMIt's high time that there be some accountability in voters - they should at bear minimum, be able to read and write IN ENGLISH, and be able to pass at least a most elemental/basic test on the democratic process.
Posted by: Paul O' The East on March 28, 2007 09:46 PM