If you dare to question elections and the voter rolls in WA State, you may soon be a criminal if proposed Substitute House Bill 1916, Relating to amending voter registration challenges and managing voter registration lists, becomes law.
With SHB 1916, legislative Democrats want to make voter challenges more difficult, even criminalizing the process. If you do voter challenges wrong (against new virtually impossible standards), you could face criminal charges.
If you challenge a voter registration without "Reasonable Cause," you could be guilty of a misdemeanor, with a fine of up to $5,000 and/or up to a year in jail! According to the bill, each instance constitutes a separate offense where a challenger makes a challenge without reasonable cause.
If you submit voter challenges and “knowingly” provide false information, you could be "Guilty of False Swearing" - a Gross Misdemeanor, with a newly imposed fine of up to $10,000 and/or up to a year in jail!
In the 2024 legislative session, Dems attempted similar shenanigans to make voter challenges more difficult with SB 5856, Concerning Voter Registration Challenges, which eventually died.
Now in 2025, the State Dems are completely weaponizing laws using fear and intimidation tactics to stop successful, legal, law-abiding citizen efforts to improve WA State elections. They are already attempting this by Criminalizing Petition Signature Gathering with SB 5382: Whereas Dems want to re-write state law and replace the language “To the Best of Our Knowledge” with “Must Affirm Under Penalty of False Swearing.”
But in 2025, once again, State Democrats seem to have Voter Challenge Derangement Syndrome! SHB 1916 is simply a re-write of HB 1223. Both are rage-drafted folly bills by Leftist Progressives, including but not limited to the Brennan Center for Justice, who love to use criminal law standards including “Probable Cause” and proof “Beyond a Reasonable Doubt” in their legislation.
WHAT ARE DEMOCRATS AFRAID OF?
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