Inslee: Officials' lies about election results should be crime
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee said Thursday he wants to make it a crime to spread lies about election results.
Inslee said he’s drafting a bill to make it a gross misdemeanor for elected officials and candidates to hurl unsubstantiated claims that sow doubt in the integrity of elections.
The three-term Democratic governor is taking aim at those who continue to assert the 2020 presidential election was stolen and who push debunked theories about widespread fraud. They are part of what he called “a continuing coup” on our democracy.
Inslee unveiled his legislative proposal — for which he is still seeking a sponsor — on the one-year anniversary of both the Capitol insurrection in Washington, D.C., and a protest during which demonstrators breached the gate of the governor’s residence in Olympia.
Perpetuating the belief that the election was stolen is like “yelling fire in a crowded theater of democracy,” he said.
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