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Disenfranchisement... It's GOP-rific!

Submitted by grant on February 22, 2006 - 9:47am.

Conservative think tank files Initiative to make all Washington State residents re-register to vote


Washington state Republicans never quite got over Dino Rossi's crushing loss to Gov. Gregoire. And, who's to blame them? Their most popular blog, SoundPolitics, is happy to stoke the fire. In between posting the salary of every teacher in the state and bitching about illegal bon fires at Alki all SoundPolitics does is post people's addresses and question their own neighbor's legal voting status. It's a 24-7 witch hunt of massive proportions over there.

In their world everyone is suspect. Even you.

So, since everyone is a suspect, then we should disenfranchise everyone, right?!? State-wide disenfranchisement is what democracy is all about! Conservative think-tank Evergreen Freedom Foundation thinks so. The Seattle Times reports:
Initiative would force all voters to reregister

OLYMPIA — Voters would have to prove they are U.S. citizens and reregister to vote under an initiative that supporters said they will file this week.

Conservative think tank Evergreen Freedom Foundation has formed Grassroots Washington, which is backing the initiative that is expected to be announced today...

The initiative would make all voter registrations inactive until people proved their citizenship and reregistered...

But Assistant Secretary of State Steve Excell said it's a wrong move. "Just because we don't happen to think that every voter record is perfect, we can't, wholesale, disenfranchise everybody," he said.

Excell said investigators had not found any evidence of illegal votes, and noted that most of the questioned registrations were inactive.
Related Links:
Seattle Times - Initiative would force all voters to reregister
SoundPolitics - Teachers Salary
SoundPolitics - Aliki Beach Patrol
Posted in Initiatives | Washington State Politics | grant's blog
I wonder how they plan to

I wonder how they plan to pay for this? There they go again wasting millions of tax payer dollars.

Submitted by chrisz on February 22, 2006 - 4:13pm.
Papers, please.

Papers, please.

Submitted by rob on February 23, 2006 - 11:04am.
good point

those damn spend-o-crats and their bleeding heart...

wait, it's the GOP that wants to waste a crap load of money. how unlike them... or is it?

Submitted by grant on February 23, 2006 - 11:45am.
EFF's get out the vote

Goldy has an interesting take on this...simply that the EFF is using this to prop up some republican compaigns, not with any intent of actually having it pass and be legal (although I suppose it would be an added bonus). I'd have to agree with Goldy on this one... http://www.horsesass.org/index.php?p=1410

This is just another reason why the iniative process is very broken and either needs to be completely reworked or dismantled. Evergreen Politics floated the idea of an iniative education campaign:
http://www.evergreenpolitics.com/ep/2006/02/educational_cam.html

Submitted by rob on February 23, 2006 - 4:39pm.

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