Columbian Cheers and Jeers March 21 blows the call:Jeers: To the Washington Legislature for failing to act on at least two key changes.

Typically,The Columbian just goes along with whatever our disgrace of a Secretary of State wants, although God alone knows why.

For reasons detailed in many other places, Sam Reed is an embarrassment, both to this state and to the Republican party he allegedly claims.

While our electoral system is burning from an utter lack of due diligence about those voting, in that there is no requirement to prove citizenship, address or eligibility, Sam and the Columbian fiddle by bitching over the cutlery in first class on the Titanic.

Today's snivel fest includes their effort to reduce the number of votes in a given election (and, given the hard-right break of late ballots, this one actually surprised me) by not allowing votes to be counted that aren't TURNED IN by close of business on Election Day (I really would have thought that Sam's democrat masters would have shoved this through with all the rest of Sam's eyewash-disguised-as-election-reform) instead of counting those votes postmarked BY Election Day.

There reasoning? Well, like all of the other "reforms" introduced by our excuse-for-a-Secretary-of-State, it would make it "easier."

"That's unfortunate because the change could have expedited the counting and reporting of election results."

Amazing, that. "Expediting the count" is SO much more important than getting as many legal votes in... particularly, military votes, as possible.

Yeah... these guys REALLY know what's important.

Meanwhile, illegal aliens infest out voting roles, felons who have not completed their sentences infest our voting roles (Ol' Sam, purely make a mistake, sent felon voters THOUSANDS of ballots in the last election in one of his MANY "whoops-as-long-as-its-aligned-with-my-agenda" moments he's famous for.) people are claiming fake addresses because no LEGAL ID is required either to vote... or even to register to vote continue to be a problem for O' Sam.

I mean, after all, Ol' Sam HAS ONLY BEEN IN OFFICE FOR EIGHT FRICKING YEARS... HOW COULD WE HAVE POSSIBLY EXPECTED HIM TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS IN ONLY THE BETTER PART OF A DECADE?????

So, thanks again to the local fishwrapper for handling Sam's Sniveling. How our election system works at all with this moron in charge is a mystery to me... but then, based on his incompetence in 2004, maybe it DOESN'T work.


Jeers: To the Washington Legislature for failing to act on at least two key changes. First, a bill that would require voters to return ballots to the counties' elections offices by Election Day, rather than to simply postmark them by that day, stalled in committee. That's unfortunate because the change could have expedited the counting and reporting of election results. Washington is one of only five states that use this type of ballot deadline. Most other states, including Oregon, require ballots to arrive on or before Election Day.