GOP Voter Suppression Challenges in King County REJECTED

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Monday November 28, 2005 · 3:58 PM PST

2005/11/28 · 15:58

I knew that today's Canvass Board meeting was a big deal when I showed up today - there were at least two tv cameras, and 5-6 microphones recording the action at the Canvass Board table. The true sign that this was a really big story was the fact that Goldy from Horsesass (local Seattle liberal blogger extrodinare) and Stefan Sharkansky (local Seattle evil Republican blogger extrodinaire) from Soundpolitics were both seated a couple aisles in front of me. Of course, because I like pain so much, I stayed through the entire meeting - Goldy on the other hand (showing why he is the local liberal blogking) scampered early and scooped me. Oh well!

The big story of the meeting was that 70% of the challenges issued by Ms. Sotelo (high King County GOP muckity-muck) were rejected! (133 of the challenges were rejected, 57 accepted - these were only the challenged voters who actually voted in the 11/8 election - the rest of the 1,944 challenged voter registrations will be heard at another time). Read More

GOP Voter Suppression Challenges in King County - Day 3

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Wednesday November 23, 2005 · 10:59 AM PST

2005/11/23 · 10:59

I've been posting these diaries to Kos because I believe that the underhanded and dishonest tactic being used by the King County GOP to disenfranchise voters is something other Democrats are likely going to have to deal with in the near future. Yesterday we heard Democratic lawyer Kevin Hamilton argue the case against these voter registration challenges - today brought us Democratic heavyweight David McDonald. Read More

King County GOP vs The Right to Vote, Round 2

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Tuesday November 22, 2005 · 3:45 PM PST

2005/11/22 · 15:45

(Note: Covered extensively by the Stranger, and Goldy at Horsesass (here, here, here and here). Diaried here, here and here.)

As I reported, at Thursday's meeting the GOP used screenshots of Google searches as proof of new residences of the challenged voters (as pointed out here, the law clearly states that someone challenging a voter's right to vote must have the voter's new address - Sotelo and the GOP skipped this step when filing the challenges initially, and is now trying to make up for it after the fact). Apparently they read my post, and decided that a Google search isn't enough to reach the burden of proof - but instead of actually doing their due diligence (which is the least someone can ask if their vote is being taken from them), they decided instead to change search engines. Brilliant!

Read on for more of this, and a great exchange between one of the Democratic lawyers and Ms. Sotelo. Read More

Challenged Voters call bullsh*t on King County GOP

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Friday November 18, 2005 · 10:45 AM PST

2005/11/18 · 10:45

Covered extensively by the Stranger, and Goldy at Horsesass.

Diaried here, here and here.

I was lucky enough to be able to attend the first King County (WA) Canvas Board hearings for those whose voter registrations were challenged by Lori Sotelo, the Vice Chair of the King County GOP. Today's hearing was only covering the 35 poll voters whose registrations were challenged by Ms. Sotelo (as Goldy has pointed out, many of the challenges had already been rescinded, and apparently many of the challenged poll voters apparently never made it to the polls).

One voter's story (and some snarky observations) below the fold.
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