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Rep. McCune opposed to
election day voter registration
Calling this session of
the Legislature, “the year of felons’ rights,” Rep. Jim McCune,
R-Graham, said today he will oppose legislation that allows people
to register to vote up through election day.
“This is a bad bill and a bad idea,” McCune said. “We already know about
the problems in the election for Governor in 2004 and evidence of vote
fraud in the 2006 election. This will only make matters worse because
county auditors won’t have the time or resources to verify voter
eligibility or personal identities.”
Secretary of State Sam Reed and most county auditors are opposed to
Senate bill 5561 because of its cost and the additional burden it will
place on election workers. The bill is being pushed by the Association
of Community Organizations for Reforms Now (ACORN), which has admitted
it registered nearly 5,400 voters in Pierce and King counties in 2006.
Hundreds, and perhaps more, contained forged signatures, false phone
numbers and false addresses.
“It seems pretty clear that ACORN was trying to defraud the vote
totals,” McCune said. “We owe it to our citizenry to demonstrate our
commitment to the integrity of elections, and election day registration
doesn’t do that, particularly since most of the state uses the
vote-by-mail system.
“It seems ironic to me that, in the same year we are releasing felons
early and giving felons the right to vote before they have made full
restitution to society, the majority party seems intent on creating a
new avenue for election fraud,” McCune said.
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