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R-71 legal update: Challengers file new lawsuit to block vote

R-71 legal update: Challengers file new lawsuit to block vote

Washington Families Standing Together, the coalition supporting a newly adopted “everything but marriage” expansion of rights for state-registered domestic partners, has filed a fresh lawsuit in Thurston County Superior Court to try to block a public vote this fall on the new law. The organization and its chairwoman, Anne Levinson, challenged the validity of over 35,000 voter signatures accepted by the state Elections Division, and asked the court to direct the Secretary of State Sam Reed not to place Referendum…

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5 Questions about the R-71 check: What’s that you signed?

5 Questions about the R-71 check: What’s that you signed?

Good afternoon signature-check junkies! Our team is talking you through your R-71 check questions in our daily “5 Questions” post. You asked about dinging for dupes and signature sleuthing … and we say … Q) What’s the consequence for signing a petition multiple times? A) Most people who sign a petition more than once didn’t realize they have done so! Sometimes they don’t remember they had already signed the sheet, or get confused by the many petitions circulating around their town and…

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R-71 signatures: Taking special care with ethnic names

R-71 signatures: Taking special care with ethnic names

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.   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 Elections Director Shane Hamlin wrote,