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Bill would force vote-by-mail on King, Pierce

On Wednesday, Representative Hunt (22nd District-Thurston) introduced House Bill 2833, a 70-page bill that scours any mention of precinct polling places from the law. Since Pierce is the only county not vote-by-mail or moving in that direction, the ...

From JONATHAN BECHTLE, Sound Politics,  18 Jan 2008

Regional vote centers cannot be an afterthought

Elections went smoothly in many places around the nation on Tuesday, but Denver wasn't one of them. This year Douglas County, one of the counties in which Denver is located, tried out the new regional voting center model pioneered successfully by ...

From JONATHAN BECHTLE, Sound Politics,  10 Nov 2006
Related Topics: Ron Sims

Surprise, surprise

Sound Commentary on Current Events in Seattle, Puget Sound and Washington State From the poll: Are you confident that Washington has overcome the problems that hindered the 2004 Election and that there will be no problems with the 2006 Election? Yes 14% ...

From JONATHAN BECHTLE, Sound Politics,  2 Oct 2006

Sam Reed on Public Radio

Sound Commentary on Current Events in Seattle, Puget Sound and Washington State Secretary Reed will be on "The Conversation" with Ross Reynolds today at 1:00 to discuss the astounding primary ballot error rate. While I'm sure Reed will focus on ...

From JONATHAN BECHTLE, Sound Politics,  14 Sep 2006

The Times gets it right

Second, Ramsey opines that this is just the most recent example of how public sector unions make it nearly impossible to fire incompetent people. Now, the new head of elections in King County will have a leadership team consisting of Garth ...

From JONATHAN BECHTLE, Sound Politics,  23 Aug 2006

An absence of leadership

This morning's Seattle Times discussing the mysterious absence of Dean Logan, and his staffers' attempts to explain his whereabouts. Where was elections chief Dean Logan on Monday when the Metropolitan King County Council debated a ...

From JONATHAN BECHTLE, Sound Politics,  8 Jun 2006

Forced vote-by-mail in the news

This morning the the , and the ran stories on the vote-by-mail debate at the King County council meeting yesterday afternoon. One interesting point mentioned by Keith Ervin of the Times: "A council staff report said 10 of about 50 ...

From JONATHAN BECHTLE, Sound Politics,  6 Jun 2006

A chance to be heard on vote-by-mail

However you feel about vote-by-mail, this is a good opportunity to make known any concerns or thoughts you have about the ordinance. I hope as many as possible of you folks who live in King County will attend and make your voices heard. ...

From JONATHAN BECHTLE, Sound Politics,  31 May 2006

Counting the cost of mail ballots

Many of the recent posts and comments about vote-by-mail have mentioned the cost factor, but few have been able to cite hard facts about what the cost really is. I'm not going to try to do that, but I have run across some documents that may shed ...

From JONATHAN BECHTLE, Sound Politics,  26 May 2006

Julia Patterson is not alone

Bob Edelman has been following up on the strange cases of and . In both of these cases, the registration and voting information is so close that it appears highly likely these are duplicate registrations. If true, both situations are also cases ...

From JONATHAN BECHTLE, Sound Politics,  25 May 2006

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