July 21, 2020

Governor Zero



Governor Jay Inslee recently sent out a campaign email stating, “I’m confident that there is zero reason not to have a mail-in ballot under any condition.”  It is the latest example of how the governor’s reliance on a ridiculously small group of partisan advisors and campaign contributors nearly always leads to bad policy decisions. If the governor had spoken with anyone outside his small bubble, he would learn there are many very legitimate apprehensions about this very expensive ($500,000,000 was the figure floated by national Democrats) and reckless partisan idea, and why it should not be implemented nationwide.
As Shift wrote back in April, there are at least a dozen major concerns with this Democrat proposal.  The federal government does not run elections, they are run by over 3,000 county offices across the country.  In order for Governor Inslee’s foolish suggestion to become a reality, 3,000 counties would need to change their election laws and alter their budgets, buy and repeatedly test new equipment (nearly all would still need to be manufactured), hire and train new staff, train volunteers, go through a government process of selecting mail vendors, verify and update signatures of voters on file, rent new office space to process the ballots (which needs to be large enough for social distancing), update mailing addresses of all voters, and build and distribute secure ballot drop boxes.  All this needs to be accomplished in just over three months while many election workers have yet to return to their offices.  It would be absolute mayhem across the country if we were to follow Inslee’s partisan demand, and the results would be heavily tainted due to the unavoidable errors committed by thousands of election workers doing something for the first time with very little proper training and no experience.
And let us not forget the incident this weekend in Whatcom County, when a postal carrier committed the partisan (and likely illegal) act of wrapping a mailed ballot with the campaign material of a Democrat legislative candidate.  Obviously, this is not a concern for the divisive and partisan Governor Inslee, since the possible illegal act benefited a Democrat.  (Inslee campaign email, Shift, and Facebook)

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