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WA unable to use immigration databank to check voter eligiblity

WA unable to use immigration databank to check voter eligiblity

Washington election officials have determined that the state will be unable to use a federal Homeland Security database of legal immigrants to check voting eligibility. In July, Secretary of State Sam Reed requested access to data on over 100 million immigrants as a further way of reviewing the accuracy of the state’s voter registration rolls. But further inquiry made it clear that access is possible only if a state has “alien registration” numbers, which typically accompany immigration documents provided as…

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Tacoma World Trade Center honors Reed

Tacoma World Trade Center honors Reed

(Secretary of State Reed stands with former Secretary of State Munro (left) and WTC Tacoma President/CEO Anthony Hemstad after receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award.) The World Trade Center Tacoma has honored Secretary of State Sam Reed for his long years of work on behalf of international trade and tourism to benefit the nation’s most trade-dependent state. The center, a fast-growing member of the international network of trade centers, gave Reed its first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award.   The 19th Annual Globe…

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Here’s your WA 2012 Election-at-a-glance

Here’s your WA 2012 Election-at-a-glance

Secretary of State Reed and the state Elections Division are producing scads of useful voter information, including a cool online Voters’ Guide and, in partnership with TVW, a Video Voters’ Guide  You always can find your custom-tailored voter guide by logging onto MyVote.  And in mid-October, you’ll have the official Voters’ Pamphlet (and possibly county-sponsored guides as well) arriving in your mailbox. And today, Reed and the Elections crew put out a handy-dandy one-pager Election-at-a-Glance for you.  Print it out,…

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Reed certifies Primary Election

Reed certifies Primary Election

This month’s Primary Election has been certified, with Secretary of State Sam Reed doing the honors late Friday afternoon. More than 1.4 million ballots were tallied in the Primary, with voter participation a lighter-than-forecast 38.5 percent. The county-by-county numbers are here, along with the breakout for various races. The turnout was the weakest for a presidential-gubernatorial election-year Primary in recent years.  The average has run about 43 percent, and Secretary Reed had forecast 46 percent this year, based on what…

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Romney-Ryan ticket cleared for WA ballot

Romney-Ryan ticket cleared for WA ballot

The Romney-Ryan ticket has been given a green light to appear on the Washington state ballot in the fall. Thurston County Superior Court Judge Thomas McPhee, in a ruling handed down from the bench after brief oral arguments Thursday, rejected a challenge brought by the Libertarian Party of Washington. The Libertarians had argued that the Republicans of Washington lapsed into minority status by not getting 5 percent of the 2010 statewide vote with a “nominated” candidate for U.S. Senate. The…

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Reed wraps up prison library visits

Reed wraps up prison library visits

After 12 years in office, Sam Reed has completed his mission of visiting all of the State Library’s prison and hospital branches. The Washington State Library partners with the Department of Corrections and the Department of Social and Health Services to provide library services to inmates in adult correctional facilities and patients in Western State and Eastern State adult psychiatric hospitals at Steilacoom and Medical Lake.  There are branch libraries in two DSHS facilities and nine in prison facilities. Reed’s last stop…

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Secretary Reed on Kathi Goertzen’s `life well-lived’

Secretary Reed on Kathi Goertzen’s `life well-lived’

Secretary of State Sam Reed is paying tribute to Kathi Goertzen, the beloved longtime KOMO4 anchor who died Monday after a long and public struggle with brain tumors. Reed’s statement: “I join in the outpouring of respect and admiration for Kathi Goertzen, who was taken from us all too soon.  In her years as an enterprising young reporter in Olympia and in the Seattle media market, and later as a longtime KOMO news anchor, Kathi exemplified the very best in…

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Hooray for Digital Archives!

Hooray for Digital Archives!

Congratulations to our Digital Archives for making Family Tree Magazine’s “101 Best Websites of 2012.” Secretary of State Sam Reed said it’s a great honor for the Digital Archives team.  The Digital Archives, housed on the campus of Eastern Washington University in Cheney, was one of earliest and best digital archives in the country and frequently gets visitors from around the world. The facility opened in 2004. Jerry Handfield, the State Archivist, called the shout-out “a testament to the passion…

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Washington partners with Microsoft & Facebook on MyVote app

Washington partners with Microsoft & Facebook on MyVote app

Now there’s a Facebook app for reaching Washington’s online voter registration tool and “MyVote” service. The app was officially launched on Monday after already drawing considerable advance national attention as a fresh application of social media to draw attention to voter registration and information. The state Elections Division worked with Facebook and Microsoft over the past year to create the new app, which will provide many unregistered Washington residents with a secure, convenient way to register while using Facebook. The…

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