There is a troubling effort happening in the 2025 Washington State Legislature. Democrats are doing everything in their power to stop the recent success of the very important statewide citizens initiative process.
With Democrat sponsored SB 5382: Concerning requirements pertaining to signatures and addresses of ballot measure petitioners and petition signature gatherers; Dems want to re-write state law and replace the language “To the Best of Our Knowledge” and replace it with “Must Affirm Under Penalty of False Swearing” which is a Gross Misdemeanor, possible $5,000 fine and one year in jail.
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This bill is a slap in the face to the Office of the Secretary of State, who is solely responsible for validating and verifying all the legal registered voters' signatures on ballot measure petitions. Hmm…Why don’t State Democrats trust the SoS to do their job? Why all of a sudden is this a problem?
The bill would force the SoS to throw entire sheets of petitions away if petition gatherers do not swear under penalty of false swearing that all the people that signed the petition are valid, legal voters, which is of course unknowable!
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