The Washington State Republican Party (WAGOP), led by Chairman Jim Walsh, has officially joined the effort to reform elections in Washington state with Initiative Measure No. IL23-126, a citizen-led effort that would require Voter ID and Proof of Citizenship to vote.
The #ENDVBM Movement, which started in Oregon, is a regional effort advocating for one-day, in-person voting with voter identification, hand-counted ballots, clean databases, and designating election day as a national holiday. The aim is to restore trust and transparency in the election process, where one-party rule has failed to manage voter databases and adequately address other questionable practices.
“Nobody takes responsibility for making sure that registered voters are actual citizens and otherwise legal voters,” says Chairman Walsh. “You press the Department of Licensing, and you press the Secretary of State, and they end up pointing fingers at each other.”
“Our long-term goal is to get where ENDVBM is going,” adds Chairman Walsh, who also serves as State Representative for Southwest Washington. “We want to get back to in-person voting. We want to get back to a same-day vote count.”
The regional #ENDVBM effort aligns with the Trump Administration’s executive order, Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.
“Washingtonians of all political stripes have been asking the WAGOP to do something about election integrity in our state,” says Chairman Walsh. “For the past 18 months, WAGOP has been developing and implementing a strategy to take effective action. We studied the state’s election system to find the most vulnerable parts. Then, we filed lawsuits and drafted legislation. From there, we’ve redrafted the latest citizen-led initiative.”
Initiative IL26-126, when implemented as law, will help move that good reform process forward.
OF NOTE: Several jurisdictions across the country are moving to election systems that use paper poll books and hand-counted paper ballots with one day of voting. This provides transparency, verifiability, and security in elections.
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