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On February 12, WA State Democrats sponsored bills E3SHB 1710: AN ACT Relating to compliance with the Washington Voting Rights Act of 2018, and E2SHB 1750: Creating guidelines for voter suppression and vote dilution claims under the Washington Voting Rights Act, passed out of the State House via party-line votes. Now the bills travel to the State Senate. The proposed laws are further Democrat distorted versions of reality, essentially codifying that our elections are (and always have been) racist and biased against minority groups.
These bills are particularly troubling, as it appears Democrats are trying to replicate what other leftist-controlled states have done when they didn’t get the results they wanted out of a voting jurisdiction. If these bills become law, they could place all local jurisdictions within WA into a potentially suspect category of racist voting rights violators. Additionally, the WA State AG, exercising ‘political preference,’ could decide how local jurisdictions can implement election policies.
Nine states (CA, CO, CT, IL, MN, NY, OR, VA, & WA) have enacted state voting rights acts that generally mimic provisions of the federal Voting Rights Act (1965).
Unlike the federal VRA (which can apply to congressional districts), these state versions typically apply only to local jurisdictions (such as counties, cities, school boards, and other substate entities).
The 2018 Washington Voting Rights Act states: A jurisdiction violates the Act when elections exhibit polarized voting and where there is a significant risk members of a protected class do not have an equal opportunity to elect candidates of Read More
