Petition fraud alleged in Washington
Perhaps someone got a bit too zealous to get an SEIU sponsered proposal on the ballot in Washington state. OPB News has more here:
"The Washington State Patrol has been asked to investigate allegations of signature fraud on a citizen initiative. A unionized homecare worker is accused of falsifying signatures on at least twenty petition sheets for I-1098. That's an income tax measure for high-earners on the November ballot. Austin Jenkins reports from Olympia.
The Secretary of State's office has concluded its internal investigation. It found some 350 questionable voter signatures. Many of them were written in what appears to be the same handwriting.
The woman at the center of the investigation is a member of the Service Employees International Union Local 775, a major backer of the income tax measure."
Well what do you know. The Washington State Secretary of State wasn't much interested in ensuring the voter roles were purged of ineligible felons during the presidential election.
One can only hope he will be as diligent in ensuring valid votes are counted when this initiative is voted on in November. (I read there still are enough valid signatures for I-1098 to make it to the ballot.)
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