Washington State Democratic Chairs Organization

Hi everyone,

Our Secretary of State candidate, Jason Osgood (http://www.jasonosgood.com/), has been looking at the voter rolls over the last few years, and he noticed something that he has not been able to explain. He ran some queries, and found quite a few people who were on the rolls in 2004, but are not there now. There are numerous potential reasons for this, but the most troubling possibility is that the Secretary of State is following the Help America Vote Act to the letter. If someone has not voted in two consecutive federal elections, the law allows that voter to be removed from the rolls. I think we can set the potential reasons aside and deal with this as the opportunity it is.

I have a database file with 90,000 names and addresses on it. These are people that we were able to find on the voter rolls in 2004, but that we can't find on the rolls now. This list is from every Legislative District, and from all over the state. I can break the list down by Legislative District, and the records also say what precinct the address is in to help further breakouts directly to PCO's and volunteers.

The objective, and the opportunity we have, is to send someone to each of the addresses and find out if the person listed is still living there. If they are, let's get them registered to vote again. If they are not, let's find out who is now living there and see if they are registered to vote. I know that 90,000 people is a LOT of people, but all I can do is send out the word.

If you would like a copy of the list for your legislative district, please let me know what format you would like the file in, and I will do my best to provide it in that format. If I have already sent an LD list out, I will let you know who got it so we can avoid overlaps. I can also make them available on Google Docs, downloadable from the wa-demchairs.org website, or anything else you need. I'm at your service. We have around 30 days to get through this list, along with everything else we are doing to boost voter registration and turnout for November. Let's do it.

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Chad Lupkes
http://wa-demchairs.org