Exactly one month after the Referendum 71 petitions were delivered to the Office of Secretary of State, the latest update shows that signature checkers have reviewed over 110,000 signatures.
More than 6,000 signatures have been counted since the Monday update, bringing the cumulative total to 110,288 checked signatures. Of this total, 97,261 have been accepted and 13,027 rejected for one… Read more
Thanks for being so curious about the ins and outs of signature checking. We’ve been getting tons of questions from you on the blog about the ongoing R-71 check. Our team will talk with you about these inquiries in a daily “5 Questions” post. Today’s topics: The third check, database dates and policies, oh my! Q) How long do you wait to do the third and final check? A) The third check – the final step that checks to catch any recent voter registrations – is ongoing and is being completed… Read more
It came as a great shock to us here at the library when the Spokane, Washington newspaper, "Spokesman Review," decided it would no longer mail its publication; home delivery or the Internet will be the only options.
Now I understand about budget cuts, but really? What about all of those who don'… Read more
With both sides of the issue watching them like hawks, the signature checkers for Referendum 71 continue to work diligently and carefully through the pile of petitions. That is especially the case when it comes check the signatures of signers with ethnic names.
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We recently received a letter from a Russian-American who said he “learned that many Russian and Ukrainian signatures are being rejected.” In his reply, Assistant… Read moreThe Elections Division’s signature checkers have reviewed just over 9,000 new Referendum 71 signatures . The cumulative signature check total is now more than 97,000, almost two-thirds of the total submitted in late July. Nearly 86,000 signatures have been accepted and almost 11,400 rejected for one reason or another. The signature error rate has dropped from yesterday’s 11.97 percent to the… Read more
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As Dave Ammons mentioned in his blog post yesterday, the Referendum 71 signature checkers have been doing a “recent registration check” for signatures that had been rejected because they weren’t found in the copy of the state voter database used for checking signatures. Because the checkers have been working off the version of the database used to check the Initiative 1033 sigs earlier this summer, new voters who registered in July… Read moreImage Over the last few weeks I have had a chance to get to know our new employee. Anna is smart and it has been great training her in the procedures for the library. We have the same schedule so we have been carpooling, which is really nice, but we have also been able to talk daily and all day. I no longer only have inmates to interact with and I find that I like having a coworker work the same schedule as me ... in some ways it feels like a "… Read more
Signature checkers for the state Elections Division have scrutinized almost 9,000 new Referendum 71 signatures, bringing the cumulative check total to over 88,000.
Over 77,000 signatures have been accepted and more than 10,000 rejected on various grounds, bringing the error rate so far to just under 12 percent.
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Image As previously noted, there are two wrinkles in locking down the final count for each of the Referendum 71 volumes of petition signature. One is that dozens of signatures are temporarily put in the reject pile while the voter's home county is asked to send an electronic signature that can be used to compare with the petition signatures. Many of those are eventually added to the "accepted" pile.
The other involves a check of signatures… Read moreReferendum 71 sponsors now have nearly 70,000 signatures in their column, but still need another 50k to qualify for the Nov. 3 statewide ballot. The measure is sponsored by foes of the state's newly adopted "everything but marriage" law that gives state-registered domestic partners the same state rights and responsibilities as married couples.
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