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Thursday, January 13, 2005
Group seeks recall vote on Reed
OLYMPIA -- Frustrated with how Sam Reed handled the recounts in the governor's race, a group is trying to recall the secretary of state.
An online group accuses Reed of malfeasance and a violation of the oath of office for his role in certifying Democrat Christine Gregoire as governor.
The group's petition was e-mailed to the office of the Republican secretary of state yesterday by Martin Ringhofer, a Boeing Co. employee who ran for the Seattle School Board and lost in 1999. Ringhofer said the petition was conceived and drafted through Web logs, discussion groups and e-mail.
Reed, who took his oath of office for his second term yesterday, said he isn't concerned.
"I haven't seen what they filed, but what I've done is upheld my office and complied with the state laws for Washington," Reed said. "I would have to say that no one in the course of this has asked me to do anything improper or unfair."
State law says that once a petition has been filed with the secretary of state, a Superior Court judge from Reed's legislative district has to certify that the charge is sufficient, not whether it is truthful.
Then 180 days are given to collect the 342,356 signatures needed to put it on a statewide ballot.
Some backers of GOP gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi thought Reed should have done more to help Rossi. They say he was wrong for certifying Gregoire as governor after she won a 129-vote victory in a hand recount of 2.9 million ballots.
Reed has said that although there were irregularities in the process, there was nothing significant enough to keep him from certifying the election results.
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