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Respect Washington seeks to restore Burien and Spokane citizen petition rights |
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| • | On April, 7 2020 Respect Washington filed a Petition for Certiorari at the Supreme Court of the United States, Case No. 19-1219, and Petition Appendicies. Question Presented: Whether the First Amendment protects the right of citizen' to vote on an initiative that meets all time, place and manner requirements for the initiative to qualify for placement on the ballot. This petition intends for the U.S. Constitution Amendment I to be restored for the citizens of Burien from injury argued by the lawsuit contrivances of "Burien Communities for Inclusion" [an assemblage of Open Borders anti-democrats]," ordered by Judge Eliabeth Berns of Superior Court of King County, affirmed by Washington State Court of Appeals - Division I judges Marlin J. Applewick, John H. Chun and James R. Verellen and further affirmed in review denial by Washington State Supreme Court justices Debra L. Stephens, Mary I. Yu, Charles K. Wiggins, Sheryl Gordon McCloud and Raquel Montoya-Lewis. |
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| • | On October 8, 2019 Respect Washington filed a Petition for Certiorari at the Supreme Court of the United States, Case No. 19-474, and Petition Appendicies. Question Presented: Whether the First Amendment protects citizens' interests in voting on an initiative that has met all time, place and manner requirements for an initiative to qualify for placement on the ballot. This petition intends for the U.S. Constitution Amendment I to be restored for the citizens of Spokane from injury argued by the lawsuit contrivances of "Global Neighborhood [an assemblage of Open Borders anti-democrats]," ordered by Judge Julie M. McKay of Superior Court of Spokane County, affirmed by Washington State Court of Appeals - Division III judges George B. Fearing, Kevin M. Korsmo and Laurel Siddoway and further affirmed in review denial by Washington State Supreme Court justices Mary E. Fairhurst, Barbara A. Madsen, Debra L. Stephens, Steven C. Gonzalez and Mary I. Yu. |
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Documents of Respect Washington v. Global Neighborhood[of unlawfully present aliens] |
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| Respect Petition for Certiorari (October 2019) | |||
| Respect Petition for Certiorari Appendices (October 2019) | |||
| The Inlander "Happy Accident" (June 1, 2017) | |||
| Spokane County Superior Court - McKay Order (August 29, 2017) | |||
| Spokane County Superior Court - Oral Argument Transcript (August 29, 2017) | |||
| First Amendment Authorities From Around the U.S. | |||
Respect Washington seeks to restore City of Burien citizen petition to ballot |
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Documents of Burien Communities for Inclusion [of unlawfully present aliens] v. Respect Washington |
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| Voter Integrity Research From Around the U.S. | |||
| Colorado's fight to restore voter integrity | |||
Respect Washington seeks to remove non–citizen voters from rolls | |
| • | On March 31, 2011 Respect Washington filed a motion for summary judgement in support of a petition filed in November 2010 for the King County Superior Court to release public documents containing "non–juror" information (Case No. 10–2–41119–4 SEA). |
| • | Throughout Washington State, 38 county superior courts have refused to release non–juror information. Martin Ringhofer and Respect Washington to attempted to gain access to these public documents in order to verify that ineligible individuals are not registered to vote in Washington State. |
| • | Respect Washington is assisted by the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), of Washington, D.C. To date, courts in two of Washington's 39 counties have released public documents containing information about non–jurors. (A "non–juror" is an individual summoned, but unqualified for jury duty due to a felony conviction or lack of U.S. citizenship.) |
| • | As prime exhibit, Douglas County Superior Court juror listings of 238 non–juror non–citizens between 2008 and 2010 were cross–referenced with voter rolls to reveal 7 registered voters, 2 of whom had voted in local elections! Registrations of all 7 suspicious voters were confirmed by the Washington Secretary of State. Of those seven contacted, two exhibited confirmation of non-U.S. citizenship and therefore voter registration challenges were lodged with the Douglas County Elections Department. Upon challenge, one non-citizen requested removal from the voter rolls. A second challenged voter refused to attend that voter's hearing scheduled with Auditor. This voter's registration has since been designated "inactive," pending the voter's eligibility verification. As of February 2016 this voter has not voted since the 2008 general election. |
| • | From Okanogan County District Court records between 2008 and 2010, a cross-reference exam found 178 non–juror non–citizens, 4 of whom were registered to vote and had records of having voted! |
| • | While King County Superior Court refused to release non–juror records, the court did reveal that during 2008–2009, 6,962 individuals summoned for jury duty had identified themselves as non–U.S. citizens. If rates of malregistration in King County are similar to those found in Douglas and Okanogan Counties, there might be as many as 200 registered voters among those 6,962 non–citizens. Even those non-citizen registered voters summoned to juror service would represent only a sliver of those non-citizens registered to vote in King County. |
| • | Since 2006 the Washington State Department of Licensing (DoL) has issued 350,353 drivers licenses to individuals who did not supply a Social Security Number upon application. A crosscheck of those against a list of registered voters (dated December 31, 2010) revealed that 10,866 of these individuals were registered to vote. While not proof of ineligibility to vote, these matches deserve further scrutiny. |
| • | While the lack of an association between a licensee record at DoL and a SSN is no proof of voter ineligibility, Washington election officials are not policing this gateway to illegal voter registration. Proof of U.S. lawful presence for all DoL licenses would go a long way toward protecting the citizen’s vote franchise. So would requirement to show proof of citizenship upon voter registration application. Which is why the Washington Respect for Law Act requires both controls. |
| • | On Thursday November 1, 2012 oral argument before Div. I Washington State Court of Appeals judges Stephen Dwyer, Kenneth Grosse and Mary Becker was heard in "Ringhofer v. Ridge." The Audio recording is available for download Ringhofer v. Ridge 679708 |
| • | On Thursday Dec 10, 2012 Judges Dwyer, Grosse and Becker issued Washington State Court of Appeals opinion affirming the opinion of Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Ronald Castlelberry. |
| • | On January 16, 2013 Martin Ringhofer's attorney filed Petition for Review at the Washington State Supreme Court. On June 4, 2013 Washington State Supreme Court Justices Madsen, Charles Johnson, Fairhurst, Stephens and Gonzalez unanimously denied a hearing of the petition on appeal; a disappointing outcome for Constitutional access to public records. The judges and justices deferred to statute enacted in 1993 that obstructed use of juror records for "other than jury purposes" (slipped into HB 1084 whose greater purpose was juror pool expansion). The specific authorization in use of juror records as a tool for voter roll integrity and consultation with federal citizenship and immigration service was reestablished in 2005 (SB 5743 Kastama/Roach) but yet repealed by party-line Democrat vote in 2009 (HB 5270 McDermott). The Respect for Law initiative seeks to restore these voter integrity audit tools. |
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