In King County, Washington.
Stephan Sharkansy filed an Citizens Initiatve with the King County Elections Office which would, if approved by the voters of King County, make it so that the position of Head of the King County Elections Office would be an elected postition instead of one appointed by the King County Executive.
He gathered his signatures and submitted them for verification.
It’s been three weeks and still no news as to whether it will be on the ballot this November.
Normally, and accroding to the law in King County, a statistical sampling of the signatures need only be verified in order to qualify the Initiative for the ballot.
The current King County Executive, Ron “Tax to the Max” Sims, is taking another, more expensive route, and is making the elections office verify each and every signature on the petitions until the required number of signatures is verified (144,000 instead of 9400).
Methinks he doesn’t like his power being taken away from him. Enough to spend an unneccesary $50,000 in tax dollars and taking an extra three weeks for these additional verifications.
But Sharkansky’s I-25 is not the only victim of Ron Sims power-hungry ways.
I-24 would make government have to interact with the citizenry, something they hate becase, as it turns out, citizens have things called “Opinions”. And by golly, these citizens actually think that government should listen to these “Opinons”.
If Sims can find and use yet another delaying tactic to hold the verification of these two initiatives off until the primary, both of these citizen groups will have to try again next year.