A good day 1 for R-71 signature validation!

The following are highlights from today's (Friday, July 31) posting on the Secretary of State's website:
 
During the first day of signature-verification for Referendum 71, over 5,000 voter signatures were scrutinized and the error rate was 11.34 percent.
 
The State Elections Division crew turned up 4,991 valid signatures out of the 5,646 they reviewed. A handful were duplicates or the signature didn't match the voter registration card.
 
Almost 600 petition signers were not found on the roll of registered voters. The early error rate (the count could take the better part of a month) at the current pace of checking by about 20 crew members was running cleaner than the historic average of 18 percent.
 
Sponsors, a campaign group called Protect Marriage Washington, submitted 137,689 signatures. That is roughly 14 percent more than the bare minimum, 120,577, required to secure a place on the   November ballot.
 
This is clearly good news for our side. We do, however, have a long ways to go with the count and we will need to maintain an error rate below 14% to prevail.  Please keep this matter in your prayers over the weekend, and keep praying that we will succeed in bringing R-71 before the people of Washington State in November!

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Mission

The mission of the new PAC is to organize the effort to gather the 120,577 required signatures for Referendum 71 by July 25, 2009 to bring the controversial Senate Bill 5688 before the voters of Washington State in November. SB 5688 is a 110 page document which includes the phrase "marriage shall apply equally to state registered domestic partnerships" 180 times.

 

SB 5688 was packaged and presented to the legislature as a Domestic Partnerships expansion of benefits. In truth, it will demolish the state's historical understanding and definition of marriage as that of uniting a man and a woman for life as Washington State will immediately become subject to litigation by same-sex partners demanding that the courts overturn the Defense of Marriage Act and impose "same-sex marriage" (as happened recently in California prior to Proposition 8).