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Anti-$15 Minimum Wage Referendum Officially Fails to Qualify for the Ballot, 100 Signatures Withdrawn

by Goldy — Tuesday, 7/22/14, 5:40 pm

King County Elections released its absolute final signature verification results today, and of the 18,929 signatures Forward Seattle submitted, only 14,818 were determined to be valid, far short of the 16,510 necessary to qualify for the ballot. KCE validated an additional 455 signatures (out of 568 submitted) from a separate $15 referendum, but since the combined total still falls well short of the threshold, there’s no need to go through the legal wrangling necessary to determine whether they can be combined.

Of course, this result had been a foregone conclusion for more than a week. Of more interest is that KCE subtracted 100 signatures from the final total as legally “withdrawn.” I’m not sure I’ve ever seen this before. Kudos to Working Washington for setting new precedent in the battle against blatantly dishonest signature drives.

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    Ekim spews:

    Tuesday, 7/22/14 at 10:10 pm

    18,929 – 14,818 = 4,111

    Should those 4,111 Anti-$15 signers be hunted down, thrown in jail and stripped of their voting rights? They have obviously committed some sort of voter fraud.

    Inquiring minds want to know.

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