Registration forms' late delivery makes 1,100 ineligible to vote

[AtLiberty]

*sigh*

Registration forms' late delivery makes 1,100 ineligible to vote

By Keith Ervin
Seattle Times staff reporter

About 1,100 King County residents are not eligible to vote in the November election because a box containing their voter-registration forms was sent by UPS rather than U.S. mail, election officials said Friday.

The signed forms, collected in Pierce County during a drive to register more minority and low-income voters, were picked up by UPS one day before the Oct. 7 deadline for mailing registration forms. They arrived at election headquarters Oct. 9.

Because state law allows registrations to be processed only if there is a "postal cancellation" by the deadline, officials say these registrations arrived too late.

"They didn't have a U.S. postmark that was posted in time," Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Janine Joly said.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003315620_registration21m.html

[elehhhhna]

1. Isn't that Andy Stephenson & Termite's county?

I smell a lawsuit.

[nicknameless]

2. What a crock.

Excerpt:

But the tag also showed a UPS tracking number. UPS records showed the package was initially picked up in Fife at 2:05 p.m. Oct. 6.

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But Nick Handy, state elections director in the Office of the Secretary of State, said state law is clear. "The way I see it is there are two standards," Handy said. "If you send it by the post office, we're going off the postmark. If you send it by a private organization, it's the date of receipt. ... We can argue all day the wisdom of that."

USPS postmark indicates the date that something is SENT -- not received.
UPS showed a pick up date that was sufficiently early. That's the date the ballots were SENT.

So why do the election office cretins want to use the ARRIVAL date for these probable-Democratic voters' ballots?

THAT is a "double standard".