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Homo The Final R-71 Numbers
Posted by Dominic Holden on Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:07 PM
According to the secretary of state's office, the final breakdown of signatures for Referendum 71 is 121,847 valid signatures and 16,034 invalid. The measure needed 120,577 signatures to qualify for the ballot. A case is pending in King County Superior Court, where Judge Julie Spector will decide tomorrow if 30,000 questionable signatures may be counted—or if the case was even filed in the correct county. After the results are certified, there's another five-day window to challenge the petition in court. But, barring an act of gay-lovin' Jesus, R-71 will be on the ballot. And remember, to uphold the domestic-partnership bill, "APPROVE" Referendum 71.
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Like this whole process the numbers don't add up.
137,689 signatures were handed in on July 25, 2009
137,881 signatures were supposedly looked at by August 31, 2009
Where did the 192 signatures come from?
APPROVE Referendum 71. Gay couples deserve the exact rights heterosexual couples have.
https://www.upwardstech.net/approverefer…
137,689 signatures were handed in on July 25, 2009
137,881 signatures were supposedly looked at by August 31, 2009
Where did the 192 signatures come from?
APPROVE Referendum 71. Gay couples deserve the exact rights heterosexual couples have.
https://www.upwardstech.net/approverefer…
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We need two sets of signs - one that says Preserve Marriage vote Yes for R-71 (for Eastern Washington) and one that says Save Gay Marriage vote Yes for R-71 (for Western Washington).
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Keegan - that first total was an estimate, hastily assembled at the site in Olympia.
Thousands of sheets, chaos, I trust the second count, made page by page under intense scrunity.
No nits to pick, get on the campaign trail, the war is on.
And we can and must win.
Register your friends, do a fundraiser, put the Approve 71 lit in the office, get a poster for your window .... do it all.
We can and we must win.
Thousands of sheets, chaos, I trust the second count, made page by page under intense scrunity.
No nits to pick, get on the campaign trail, the war is on.
And we can and must win.
Register your friends, do a fundraiser, put the Approve 71 lit in the office, get a poster for your window .... do it all.
We can and we must win.
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3
Good idea.
Whine and nitpick.
4
Another good idea.
Jackass schemes.
no wonder the fundies
kick your asses
coming and going.
Good idea.
Whine and nitpick.
4
Another good idea.
Jackass schemes.
no wonder the fundies
kick your asses
coming and going.
8
@4 LOL, thanks for that.
@Everyone else, we'll see how this goes. Be sure to donate to WAFST. It seems that they've received some $90,000 in donations so far. -60,000- smackers ahead of the opposition. Let's show them that we've got teeth.
If you've got a blog, blog about this. Put links up. Encourage people to donate regardless of if they're Washingtonian or not. The 'gay community' has often been criticized for lack of focus, so let's see what happens when we -do- focus.
@Everyone else, we'll see how this goes. Be sure to donate to WAFST. It seems that they've received some $90,000 in donations so far. -60,000- smackers ahead of the opposition. Let's show them that we've got teeth.
If you've got a blog, blog about this. Put links up. Encourage people to donate regardless of if they're Washingtonian or not. The 'gay community' has often been criticized for lack of focus, so let's see what happens when we -do- focus.
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"4
Another good idea.
Jackass schemes.
no wonder the fundies
kick your asses
coming and going.
"
That IS the scheme the fundies use HTH HAND.
Another good idea.
Jackass schemes.
no wonder the fundies
kick your asses
coming and going.
"
That IS the scheme the fundies use HTH HAND.
10
Clyde, election officials and the secretary of state have rigged the process to get this referendum on the ballot. If you followed the counting you would see how corrupt it is. I already explained it on past articles.
APPROVE Referendum 71. Gay couples deserve the exact rights heterosexual couples have.
APPROVE Referendum 71. Gay couples deserve the exact rights heterosexual couples have.
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#10
Keegan - I have read some of your stuff and I don't agree. I have worked 9 drives for sigs. going back a few years. Most did not make the ballot.
What happened is standard operating, you are highly mis informed and opinionated..... and I a very queer duck.
And debating if this or that should have been done is moot. The campaign started yesterday.
Join in, get you activist energy focused, we CAN beat them. And the victory will be sweet.
All the if, ands and maybes are over, over, so over.
Your revenge and mine, the victory in November.
Kick ass Keegan, stop whining. Get focused, it is an election fight, the side that get s the votes wins. Nothing else matters. Nothing.
Go to the street in you neighborhood and register 1,000 new people who are all on our side. THAT might win for us.
Send the campaign money, any amount every week - get that total to 500.00 .... that will help us win.
On to Victory.
"If life is about love and war, this moment surely is not love"
Keegan - I have read some of your stuff and I don't agree. I have worked 9 drives for sigs. going back a few years. Most did not make the ballot.
What happened is standard operating, you are highly mis informed and opinionated..... and I a very queer duck.
And debating if this or that should have been done is moot. The campaign started yesterday.
Join in, get you activist energy focused, we CAN beat them. And the victory will be sweet.
All the if, ands and maybes are over, over, so over.
Your revenge and mine, the victory in November.
Kick ass Keegan, stop whining. Get focused, it is an election fight, the side that get s the votes wins. Nothing else matters. Nothing.
Go to the street in you neighborhood and register 1,000 new people who are all on our side. THAT might win for us.
Send the campaign money, any amount every week - get that total to 500.00 .... that will help us win.
On to Victory.
"If life is about love and war, this moment surely is not love"
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