WA: GOP Volunteers Going Door To Door In DEMOCRATIC King County TO COLLECT BALLOTS!!!

This shit needs to cease.

Take their photo and tell them you will call police.

You have my word that if they dare do this to me, I will take their picture, and then contact the FBI.

and the local police. FBI is good but they take longer and have more bureaucracy. If you call all three, you will have covered short term as well as the long term enforcement. I'm not sure what anyone can do but it will put them on the record as well as put them on notice. They will probably stop at that point.

At this point, it's doubtful it will happen to me. Hopefully, they've already been scared off by other informed, proactive voters.

The hunters will become the hunted.

Outrageous.

We shouldn't give our ballots to anyone. We should mail them or, even better, take them directly to official drop locations. The vast majority of us in King County know this. This is an act of desperation that will net the rethugs little. Still, I thank the OP for alerting us that these dirty tricks are happening even in a deep blue stronghold like ours.

They are probably the main target.

I believe thats in Seattle. Florida does have regular fraud issues with absentee ballots, but its usually down in Miami-Dade.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Florida

Or was one renamed?

I just saw the story on the Seattle station.

it takes to stop democrats from voting.

by a democrat. And not a one of them favors democrats.

They are reprehensible. And, frankly that eventually has to hurt them (I would hope).

That's what would put it into perspective for other non-thinking republicans. They are bound to eventually wonder what their party is doing.

I don't understand why it isn't already, but it's so widespread there must not be any consequences.

That didn't work so their brownshirts are going to people's homes. This was thorougly routed in the Gregoire-Rossi race, going after long established voters who had not moved. They were able to get media attention, others lost their votes.

for campaign reform in all phases.

With respect to federal elections, we need standardized funding, registration, voting, ballot collection, and vote tallying.

This is fundamental. We cannot fix anything without a fair voice.

I couldn't agree more, and would add 100% Paper ballots.

I'm a programmer and the thought of using a computer to vote with frightens the living hell out of me, it's simply a ludicrous idea.

The men weren't lying. They actually were from the Republican party, and they even called King County Elections to let them know what they were doing,.

"It is not prohibited by law. There is no a law prohibiting that activity, (but) we always recommend against it," said Sheril Huff of King County Elections.

The party told elections officials they planned on dropping the ballots in a drop box. One hundred GOP volunteers will be out again on Monday and maybe Tuesday, and they say getting the vote out is especially critical this year.

I wish I could say the same about ballots from democrats.

It would be hard to see through both to find out who voted for whom. There is no registration by party in WA, so voter ID is guesswork based on donation records, previous doorbelling and phonebanking results, etc. Frequent voters with strong party identification have long since dropped their ballots, so the McKenna folks are targeting less committed infrequent voters.

My guess is that they will make slightly better than even guesses about party ID, target mainly people they think might be Dems, and throw all the ballots away just to make sure. In King County, it would be worth it for them to disenfranchise a few of their own in order to disenfranchise a much larger number of Democrats.

Lori Sotelo, chair of the King County Republicans, took out affidavits that hundreds of people (she swore she knew them personally) had voted in 2004 without being eligible. (This was after a Dem won the governorship by 129 votes.) These were voters registered at mail box shops and various businesses. Some were homeless--one was outed and lost his job. Some used their mailbox as their mailing address for ballots. Others lived on the premises of their businesses, a fact that Ms Richtwit could not conceive of. Some were even Republicans, but she didn't care as long as most of the people she fingered were Democrats. King County Dems were on this ASAP, and made her look like cold shit warmed over.

It amounts to playing the odds. The classifications are periodically checked in post election surveys. In 2004, 10% of those rated as strong Democrats voted for Bush, and a similar percentage of strong Republicans voted for Kerry.

The final election is often between two Democrats and two Republicans.

that follows and watches their actions. They need to be monitored and recorded.

Hold them at gunpoint if you have one and have them arrested for election tampering. Indeed, take their photos and email them to all newspapers and TV stations in the area.

...the race (Jay Inslee vs. Rob McKenna) is too close to withstand any tampering.
Our last two Governor races ended in recounts, and the Dems pulled through with just a few hundred vote lead.

This is nauseating.

(I'm in King County, 41st LD, past PCO)

No doubt only went to registered Democrats trying to steal their ballots and shred them. NO ONE in WA has ever needed anyone to come and pick up their ballots.

Dino Rossi's and GWB's crew tried to interfere with the WA state governor's race. GOP operatives challenged Democratic voters to make them have to file provisional ballots.

Their well-funded games resulted in the federal AG being fired for not helping the GOP overturn the election which had gone through 2 recounts and nothing was found wrong. More reform was done and we now have mail in.

NO ONE needs to be harrassed at home like this and I wish they'd taken names and addresses from them. If anyone calls or shows up at my door, I'm taking pictures and calling 911, whoever.