Maleng Wants to Smack Down Transient Voters
King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng may be many things: tall, white, bespectacled, and a tiger in the sack but he isn't a fool. He knows when something is amiss, and amiss he feels something is.
Back in October county Republicans cried to everyone who would listen that there were Democratic voters registered to cast ballots in areas they did not live. Through the magic of post office boxes, businesses, and box cars local hippies could cast votes outside of their city or county of residence.
Yesterday at a news conference held on the wing of a 1920s prop plane the Republican Maleng said, "It is not acceptable that these incomplete and illegal registrations are allowed to stand without being corrected." Maleng now wants the attorney general, secretary of state, and the state Legislature to investigate."
However, Maleng will not be perusing perjury charges against those county GOP officials who filed the claims. Even though they "stated under penalty of perjury" that they had the correct addresses for those voters, they were bringing claims against. It turns out they didn't and 70 percent of their claims were thrown out.
We tell ya, law, it's a tricky thing.
