If you remember the 2004 Washington State Gubernatorial Election, decided by less than 129 votes, then you’ll remember the complaints from folks who supported candidate Dino Rossi about the crap-filled voter rolls.
And if you can remember that, then you’re sure to remember the Gregiore supporters who attempted to dismiss those claims.
I think we can positively say that the Rossi supporters were on the right side of that argument.
More than 176,000 names removed from voter rolls
More than 176,000 names were removed from the state’s voting rolls last year under a new statewide voter database that was developed to help counties find duplicate registrations and dead voters, Secretary of State Sam Reed said today.
The purge of illegal registrations is the result of the new system that has consolidated all 39 separate county systems into one database in January 2006.
Reed said that from Jan. 1, 2006 to Dec. 31, 176,373 names were removed from the state’s database of about 3.2 million registered voters:
So nearly 2% of all the voters on record in Washington State were deleted in 2006 for one or more of the following four reasons:
Reason #1 – 39,814 duplicate voter registrations, or
Reason #2 – 40,105 deceased voter registrations, or
Reason #3 – 4,500 felon voter registrations, or
Reason #4 – 91,954 active and inactive voter registrations, because voters move to other states or request cancellations of their voter registrations.
Yet, if you listen to people like Spokane’s Spokesman Review blogger, Jim Camden, or Andrew at the Northwest Progressive Institute’s Official Blog, or NW-Leftist Uber-Blogger, Goldy, at the HorsesAss blog, you’d think that there wasn’t any problem at all with having 2% of all registrations in Washington State being fraudulent.
You see, they are taking all the votes cast in the last election (2,107,370) and figured into that number the number of people caught voting fraudulently (one person) and have come up with a .00004% error rate.
Unfortunately for all of them, I live in what is called “The Real World”. In “The Real World” we have these things called facts. Such as “I know for a fact that there were six times as many cars stolen in Washington State as there were prosectuions for car theft. But just because there were no prosecutions for the other 83% of the car thefts doesn’t mean they didn’t happen”
But in the world of free cream pies for everyone and where the busses run on pixie dust (and on time), if no one was caught voting fraudulently, then it didn’t happen.
OK, RNS regulars, quit laughing at them. They are mentally disturbed and possibly a little bit retarded, but they’re humans too. Mmmm-kay?
They are willing to ignore the forwarding of absentee ballots by the USPS and Stefan Sharkansy’s documentation of double voting via absentee ballots (near the bottom of this post), so I guess we should too.
Again, unfortunately for them, we’re not going to.
What brings this all up again, besides the fact that 2% of the voter roles in Washington State being fraudulent, is that the State Dems have a plan for getting all those votes back!
HB 1363 – Making voter registration available at state agencies
HB-1363 started out as a statute declaring that all state offices would be available to sign up voters because it was “‘primary duty of government’ to actively encourage voter registration”.
The State Dems, however, changed the bill so that only Unemployment Offices and the Social and Health Services offices will be offering this.
No Department of Fish and Wildlife. No Department of Natural Resopurces. No nowhere where a potential non-Democrat might actually walk on into. Any amendments to this bill putting other state offices on the list were voted down on a party line vote.
The House elections oversight committee passed, on a party-line vote, HB 1363, which would make voter registration services available to every person who “applies in person for public assistance, disability services, or makes an in-person report of an address change” at only certain state agencies.
From the House Republican Website
Legislation passed in the House State Government and Tribal Affairs Committee today has the potential to skew voter registrations, said Rep. Bruce Chandler, Republican leader on the committee.
“As it was passed today, House Bill 1363 sends the message that the state can’t afford to be fair,” said Chandler, R-Granger. “It doesn’t make sense that there’s money to designate the Department of Social and Health Services as an agency that is required to offer voter registration services to people who come in for other reasons, but not the Department of Fish and Wildlife, for example.
“If it is the ‘primary duty of government’ to actively encourage voter registration, as this legislation states, the only way to avoid targeting potential voters is to have all agencies involved.”
If Bush took away the “Motor Voter” program so that the only place the feds would pay for voter registrations was at the Game Management office, the left would go nuts. But HB-1363 currently sounds just right to them.
They reason it out that the poor don’t get many opportunities to register to vote. Gosh, with all that free time from being unemployed (or unemployable), you’d figure that those people would be able to accidently walk into a DMV or a Post Office once in a while.
How about requiring all law enforcement agencies to offer voter reg services to anyone who comes in to apply for a CPL?
Or how about requiring city/county councils to offer it at their meetings? Actually, the kind of folks who take the time to go to city council meetings are much more the kind of folks I’d rather have voting, no matter what their leanings.
Hear! Hear! I agree 100% with both of those!
Vote by mail = vote by male
With vote by male, the husband gets to vote twice!
We’ve all discussed the important question of “Where is the ‘tipping point'” that marks a definitive line in the sand showing a complete enough disregard of the Constitution to make the assumption that Liberals have, or are in the process of, effecting a Coup d’Etat, an overthrow of legitimate government.
This proposed law deserves at leat some consideration as that tipping point.